Monday 10/20: Colts beat Chargers and sit atop AFC + Hoosiers at #2 in the country & GOATs of the Week!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
They touched this. He seized a fan morning show with
kV Shab and Jeff.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Back in the line of scrimmage and Jonathan Taylor took
a hand off right's side from Daniel Jones and skiffers.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Into the end zone from twenty three yards out.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Shotgun step and Jones flows up field.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yes, I'm there.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Third down in seventeen now for the Colts, moving back
with a twenty seven yard line empty set for Jones,
has good protection and he's going to take a deep
shot down Phil for Alan Pears, He's got it and
over the shoulder, touches made and signed the thirty yard
line of the Chargers. Shotgun stap for the quarterback. Good protection, fires.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
In the end zone.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Title award touchdown Hi ind why with a spike into
the end zone and the.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Colts are perfect today. Three touchdowns on three drives.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Herbert looks that way initially scanning over to his right.
Throws in the end zone, picked up Nick Cross, took.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
It away from the receiver.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
You're Abdullah from the five on the kickoff twenty five.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
He's at the thirty. He's got the forties at the
fifty yard line. Now the first time line he's got
a chance thirty twenty and.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
He's pushed out of bounds inside the twenty yard line.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Taylor in motion, jet sweep to him. Taylor turns the corner.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
He's at the five looking for the pylon.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Is he in.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
No signal yet? He has a touchdown high snap for Jones,
but he pulls it down. Gift to the Taylor marching
two is right. He's at the touchdown. Detroit packed the
again for Jonathan Taylor. Three rushing touchdowns for the greatest
running back going right now.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
Not that you care, but those of us on the
outside I think are a little surprise and just how
well this.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Team is playing to start the season. What do we
need to know about this group that maybe we didn't
know going into the year. I mean, I don't know.
It sounds like sounds like you didn't know much.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
But we're just gonna keep going, keep working, and we
have a lot of confidence.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
I think we got a lot of good players, guys
who work and do the right things.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
It just shows that, Hey, when you come to playoffs,
it's going to be a four quarter match, similar to
how it was today. We're gonna fight, scratching claw until
that clock'straight zero.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
I love this league. I love it to death.

Speaker 4 (02:11):
I love this organization, I love these players, I love
our owners, man.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
And it takes all of us. It's so special. It's
so special.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
Right, And don't ever lose this ceiling, man, don't ever
lose it. Right, keep fighting every day to be in
the best.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
First of all, you gotta like this that you. Good morning.
Things are going well here in the state of Indiana.
Football is all over the place and everybody is man.
I don't know bowing down as opposed to Indiana. They
are ranks number two, second in all of college football.

(02:46):
Good morning, Kevin Bowen. James Boyd will join us from
lax at some point this morning. He's still out in
Los Angeles where the the Colts gotta be going over
with the Chargers and a bunch of bananas running around
the field yesterday. But KB a number two ranking for India,
and we're gonna spend a lot of time on the
Colts in six and one, and we should first time
non manning era since they've been to Indianapolis. They've been

(03:08):
six and one. But I just my mind is getting
blown by the Indiana Hoosiers weekend and week out right now.

Speaker 5 (03:14):
Mark Dyton, welcome back. Lovely opening montage there. Hope you
had a great trip. Colts bear super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
I wouldn't go that there just yet. They're not. They're
looking mighty good right now. Your bear's playing some decent
football as well.

Speaker 5 (03:30):
Yeah, it's yeah, it's amazing. The football world revolves around
the state of Indiana and this is the year of
twenty twenty five. It's incredible. You know, last Monday, we
have felt the need to start with IU. I feel
the need to start with the Colts because I don't
want to make too much over mid October win. But
that game, to me meant more to the Colts. I
think they alluded to that publicly. Privately I know it

(03:52):
meant more to the Colts. And when moments have been
risen if you will, in recent years, I don't think
the Colts have met the moment. And again it's mid October.
But for you to go out there and win a
game that you held in higher regard, I think a
lot of people held it in high regard, and not
only win the game, but win the game in the
fashion that you did it matters. It is yet another

(04:14):
win by fourteen or more points. It's now the fourth
time they've done that in seven games. And the offense
is just a wagon. It's an absolute wagon. And Shane
Stike in is the maestro of it all.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Well, they are rolling offensively, as you said, on all cylinders,
and it almost feels like they're almost using pass to
set up run. They've been running teams to death in
the second half. In the first half, Shane stike and
just dialing up whatever he wants to dial up. With
the passing game, it seems to be working right now. Actually,
yesterday they ran it more early on.

Speaker 5 (04:44):
You know, I thought the end of the first quarter
you had Taylor and Emi Abouli even had a couple carries.
They both I think combined for like eighty yards in
the first quarter, sixty seventy something yards in the first quarter,
which is kind of the reverse of what they have done.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
But that's the thing.

Speaker 5 (04:56):
Is their offensive balance right now is it's surgical, it's
you know, really whatever they want to do, they're doing
it amazing amount of balance. They stay away from the
negatives and like, were you ever truly worried, No, because
the chargers weren't going to stop you. And yeah, the
Chargers obviously were able to move up and down the

(05:17):
field a couple of huge plays by Nick Cross and
Grover Stewart there, but there was no way that the
Chargers were actually going to stop the Colts for whatever
you know, amount of times they needed to to truly
get back in that game.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Oh, I am here for any three hundred and thirty
pound guy that not only bats is a pass up
into the air, but then locates and finds his batted
pass up into the air. That was my favorite play
all the game. Yes, Jack, I love I love that.

Speaker 5 (05:42):
That was the bench clearing celebration, not a bench clearing brawl.
That was the bench clearing celebration for Grover Stewart. And
what I mean those plays by Grover and Nick Cross
were huge. I think you heard Mark, I think it
was that Charles Harbuckle maybe in the background saying wow
at the Nick Cross iner set. I mean, you go
back and watch that replay. That's a hell of a
play by Cross on the one hander there to haul

(06:05):
it in the end zone. So yeah, I mean, defensively,
you certainly have some questions, and especially with that pass rush,
but offensively, right now, who's stopping them.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
Nobody.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
All I can tell people who say, well, you know,
they played a beat up Chargers team and they didn't
really completely dominate the passer with a bunch of backups
in there and all those kinds of things. They beat
a really good team that's coached by a really good coach.
And those guys that are backing up are still professional
football players. Now are they starters? And do you want

(06:36):
to get more out of your defensive line? Of course
you do. But that's some pretty decent numbers. Yesterday. They
didn't dominate that defensive front, but they didn't have to
at this point in time, and they're still banged up
and missing some people in the secondary. It all works together.
All I know is every week people like, well this
team was missing that, this team is not. So all
I know is they just keep hammering people to your point.

(06:59):
The fourth time that's a two touchdown win in the
National football I don't care what the circumstances are. They're
playing who's lined up in front of them. They're taking
care of business, and it feels like and it looks
like Kevin. They're getting better as the season goes along,
which is what you want.

Speaker 5 (07:14):
Oh yeah, A couple of areas like red zone struggled
early in the season. Right now, the only time they
don't score in the red zone is because they stop
themselves from scoring.

Speaker 4 (07:22):
I e.

Speaker 5 (07:23):
The first half yesterday, that's where the red zone streak
was snapped, and it's unfortunate, but they settled for a
field goal by their own doing. And then penalties. You know,
early on in the season, there were a couple of
big penalty games, and now they have gotten that number
to be a little bit lower. So I definitely think
they have some questions defensively that still need to be answered.
And I you know, wrote on one of them five

(07:44):
the fan, I think they should be entertaining a trade
for a pass rusher.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (07:49):
I thought that was the one true disappointing elements yesterday
was the lack of just controlling that aspect to the game,
because the Chargers were decimated off as a tackle. But
offensively right now, I mean, it is it's clinical, it's surgical,
it's whatever they want to do. It's Jones, it's Taylor,
it's Warren. Here's the Pierce home run. Like did we

(08:11):
forget Josh Downs didn't play yesterday? I mean, like he's
usually a very key ingredient to the offense. Did the
offense skip a beat without him? No, I mean it's
it's flawless what they're doing offensively, and if they wanted to,
that number could have been forty five or fifty two yesterday.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
It just, yeah, we're good.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
To thirty eight and that's all that's probably needed today.

Speaker 5 (08:31):
I mean, thirty eight points in an NFL game against
the Chargers defense that you know, scoring wise hadn't been
too bad, and really the Chargers didn't have many injuries defensively.
They got in Khalil Mack, they got Denzel Perryman back,
so that to me is the one unit right now
that I get there are some tougher defensive challenges waiting,
but right now it's just absurd what they're doing.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
I An Eagle and JJ Watt were just like in
awe of what they're watching from Shane Stecken's offense, Like
this is kind of insane what they're doing right now.
How they're just just basically doing whatever they wanted and
just the Chargers nonavil step a single thing they're doing, yeah,
is remarkable.

Speaker 5 (09:04):
And to me, again it comes back to just unbelievable
balance offensively like, if we want to run it, we'll
run it. If we want to throw it, we'll throw it.
And Daniel Jones just it probably sounds elementary, but he
finds simple. He finds answers. You know, you hear you
know people all the time. Hey, there's an answer to
every play. Well, Daniel Jones seemingly finds it every single play.
And again it's not the flashiest answer at times. It's

(09:25):
not third and seventeen the home run bold to pears
every single play, but oh, third and ten on the
on the goal line, we'll check it down to a
Mira Abdullah for eight yards up. That'll set up fourth
and two. Okay, change, I can go into your bag
on fourth and two. All right, here's a little you know,
rpo action where we're gonna fake like Pittman's blocking. It's
a play that we run so many times, and boom,
Michael Pittman Junior is wide open. The colts and psychon.

(09:48):
They're designed get dudes wide ass open, high school open,
and that just does not happen in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
Not to turn the page already, but did you see
the spread for what it is for the Titans game already?
Like is this the first time the Colts have been
over two touchdown favorites. Opened at fourteen didn't fourteen and
a half?

Speaker 1 (10:06):
Right now?

Speaker 3 (10:07):
I think that would be.

Speaker 5 (10:08):
The second biggest spread in the entire NFL this season.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
That's for this Colt's team to touchdown favorites against anybody
who would have thought that heading into the season.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Well, here they are, big win on the road beat
the Chargers? Are we in or out on those Chargers uniforms? Yesterday?
They kind of grew on me as the as the
day wore on. But I don't need to see him
more than once. I prefer to the powder blue. Yeah,
I do too. I think everybody does that.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
I mean, I don't mind them every once in a while.
But yeah, when I saw Joel Erickson's tweet that these
are hideous, I'm like, what are they wear?

Speaker 5 (10:40):
We mustardy? Yes, really mustardy.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
They pulled out the Savannah banana's locker.

Speaker 5 (10:45):
Like not mine's mustard, like like like beer mustard sauce.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
Yeah, my daughters thought the minions were running around on
the field.

Speaker 5 (10:53):
Yeah, a lot of Savannah bananas. References yesterday to what
they look like they.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
Did look like.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
Yeah, yeah, but didn't mind them. But yeah, Powder Blues
should have been the go to.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
All I know is classic White Blue is six and
one and sitting again and still atop the AFC with
an emphatic win. And we've got to talk about the
number two team in the nation, the Innana Hoosiers. We're
gonna do it all this morning as we continue the
Fan Morning Show, and that just a double victory. Maybe
it's a triple quadruple victory. Money. It just feels like

(11:25):
everything's coming up Roses right now. Notre Dame, Kevin, we'll
talk about it all next to ninety three, five and
one of something five. Don't look now, but the Indianapolis
Cults are six and one and cruising in the AFC.
Kevin Bowen thirty eight to twenty four over the Los
Angeles Chargers yesterday in a game that never really even
felt close at any point in time after the first quarter.

(11:45):
Did it even then?

Speaker 3 (11:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (11:48):
I mean, you know, if the Chargers would have punched
one more in you know, potentially a one score game,
who knows, But were they really going to stop the
Colts another time? You know, felt like if the Colts
wanted to, they would have just gone down the field
and score there. So damn impressive offensively right now. Again,
it is an absolute wagon for the Colts.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
Well, they were led by two hundred and eighty eight
yards passing Daniel Jones. But really the story again Jonathan Taylor,
Mark Dyton not one, not two, but three touchdowns as
the Colts just keep rolling on. Were you watching Colts
or Bears yesterday? Bears or Colts at different times? That's
why I watched them both.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
But yeah, Bears were early in the morning, Yes, well
they were. Yeah, Jonathan Taylor is he's in the MVP conversation.
I know running backs don't usually get a lot of love,
but I mean, what is this the third time he's
had three touchdowns since this year? So he's squarely in it.
Chaane Stiken should be a Coach of the Year front
runner if he isn't already. Daniel Jones, he's looked. Really,

(12:44):
I mean, there is so much positively streaming from this
Colts team right now that I don't think any of
us could have, even the most optimistic Colts fan I
don't think could have possibly had this kind of numbers
and stuff that they're doing on their predictions.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
Big days too, receiving Yesterday, aside from the three uchdowns
and ninety four yards for Jonathan Taylor, you had Michael
Pittman Junior score a touchdown with fifty eight yards receiving.
But Tyler Warren continues Kevin Yesterday's sixty nine yards in
a touchdown. But he's becoming one of those tight ends.
Every time you look up, he's not just open, he's
like three or four yards open. He's got those instincts

(13:19):
athletic ability, and you pair that with Shane Steichen's ability
to free guys up. He is a weapon right now.
Opens up everything.

Speaker 5 (13:26):
Yeah, I don't know if we truly and I think
we've acknowledged Tyler Warren a ton, but I don't know
if we truly realize what he has meant to this offense.
Just the fact that you throw him out there and
you don't tip your hand at all. You have no
idea if the Colts are going to run in or
pass because he's on the field. And think about last year.
You knew full well when the Colts threw tight ends
out there what they are going to do. And even
if you did see tight ends, oh well, I'm not

(13:48):
really sure it's not like you had fear in what
they were going to do. So, yes, Tyler Warren not
only unbelievable rookie season, but one of the best tight
ends already in the NFL.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
And it'll be another home game for the Cold's coming
up on Sunday. They will take on the Tennessee Titans. Mark,
what did you say? That line is already fourteen and
a half. That says a lot just in and of itself. Now,
Titans are pretty bad football team at this point in time.
We get that, But two touchdowns. I think Vegas is
looking at that offense for the Colts and saying Titans

(14:18):
aren't going to stop him. We see weird things in
the NFL.

Speaker 5 (14:21):
Think it's the biggest Colts spread in their favor, I
believe in four years.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
All right, check out what's going on throughout the rest
of the National Football League. Did you watch any of
the game last night? It was pretty good one.

Speaker 5 (14:32):
I watched a little bit of it. Didn't get two
locked in forty nine. Ers pulled it out late, right.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
Yeah, they did, twenty to ten. They ended up winning
by ten points. But Christian McCaffrey is just a We've
said it over and over and over. He's like a
one man wrecking crew. Catches passes, runs the football. Every
time I turn around, he's pushed. He on that last
touchdown pushed the pile forward. He's not a big guy, Kevin,
He's pushing the pile forward. Gotta love that.

Speaker 5 (14:57):
Colts will see both those teams later this season.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
That's why I bring them up. So yeah, it's one
out of ten. In the late game last night, we
saw the Chiefs. Are they back? Are they the team
now to start thinking about in the AFC? If you're
the Indianapolis Coults, you look at the whole conference right now.
They won thirty one nothing over the Raiders yesterday, but
they looked like the Chiefs again.

Speaker 5 (15:15):
Another team Cults will see in what about a month
coming out of the bye week at Arrowhead. So yes,
I would say Rashid Rice back in the lineup.

Speaker 3 (15:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (15:23):
Bet against Kansas City at your own peril.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yeah. Also, speaking of the Titans, they were on the
wrong side of the score, so the nice way to
say it. They lost at home to the New England Patriots.
Thirty one thirteen was the final score. And that one
Monday Night football. Later on tonight, Houston Texans also in
the AFC South taking on the Seattle Seahawks. Will keep an.

Speaker 3 (15:40):
Eye on that line. It's another Monday night double head.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
That is true. It is Bucks Lines, that great game,
and then ten o'clock is Texan Seahawks. I was focusing
more on the AFC South, But yes, we can do
the double doubleheader on Monday.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
Which line's got me feeling football?

Speaker 1 (15:55):
Do you like the doubleheaders on Monday night? Mark? Yes,
I do. I do.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
Actually, I like that. One day stinks. You're like, oh
I got another one, plus you got game seven coming up.
There's a good football night. It's a good sports night.
I don't know anybody doesn't like the double header on Monday. Like,
do you really need a seventh game at one o'clock
on a Sunday?

Speaker 1 (16:11):
No? No, give me two on money. It spends on
how many TVs you go to your house.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
I don't know. Two TV night, maybe a three TV
night if you have to, certainly don't multi memal is
getting a workout seven TV.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
You got the multi one o'clock, you got the multiview.
You can do a bunch of stuff.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
See I'm the other way Mark. If I don't like
the Monday night game and it's going sideways. Then I
actually have the rest.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
Of my evening free there you go hang out with
my kids.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
That we've been talking all the morning long about the
Indiana Hoosiers. Not only did they come up with a uh,
you know, impressed win of their own. It was a
slow start, Michigan State trying to control the clock and
did for a minute, and then the damn just breaks
loose in Indiana just goes on to roll as the
number two team in the nation. Now, they came up
with a thirty eight thirteen win at home over Michigan State.

(16:54):
But I just want to say that against I had
to look again this morning. I saw it this morning
when I left, and then I looked again when I
got back. It's crazy to see them think about this. Kevin. Here,
here's the company right now that they're keeping. Ohio State
is number one. Number three is Texas A and m
number four is Alabama. Number five is Georgia. Number six
is Oregon, and Indiana's right in the middle of that

(17:15):
hand at number two. It's crazy the real estate that
they're they're occupying right what.

Speaker 5 (17:21):
Today Indiana number two? Where's Vanderbilt are they in the
top ten.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
They got a quarterback, they are tenth right now, is.

Speaker 5 (17:26):
In the Northwestern's five and too what a time to
be alive in college football.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
And Arizona State got that big upset with Too. Did
you see that over the weekend?

Speaker 5 (17:33):
Yeah, well that's that is a playoff team for last year.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah, it's both Katabo playing for the Giants now.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
But anyway, I scataboo right it Cam.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
Sorry, It's just crazy though that Indiana to me is
legitimately the second ranked team in the country.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
And you almost have to like retrigger your brain, like
you're watching.

Speaker 5 (17:51):
That game, You're like, oh, kind of like a sluggish start,
like I guess technically they didn't cover. Then it's like, wait,
this is IU football we're talking about here, right, number
two in the land and that here comes another conference
but oh they're a twenty four point favorite over UCLA
coming up on Saturday.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
It's just it's unbelievable what Kurtz Signetti has done.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
Yeah, step backwards for Perdue. I thought they really had
trouble and Ryan Brown's gonna be hurting out for a
while that we don't know, well, I shouldn't say that
we don't know, very quiet yesterday on what the status
injury might be. Northwestern beat Perdue by a score of
nineteen to nothing, and Notre Dame. Can we say enough
about Jordan Love thirty four to twenty four went over
USC Every time I looked up the other night, Jeremiah

(18:32):
of what am I doing with names this morning?

Speaker 3 (18:34):
Thank Jordan Love? Is that crappy Packers quarterback.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
I was trying to get I was trying to get
a rise out of Mark.

Speaker 5 (18:39):
Yeah, Mark wasn't all over the premier college football because
Sary's number four in South Bend.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
But my point is, every time I look up that
dude is running.

Speaker 5 (18:48):
All over the place, he's in credit. I think again,
I think he's best playing in college football. And I
know I'm heavily biased by that, but I think he
is so not the prettiest thing for Notre Dame. But
when the weather turned that was advantage to the Irish.
There much much need a head another bye week, so
they are in a position they take care of business
the rest away to be one of those twelve teams.
And I think Jeremiah Love should be in any Heisman

(19:09):
Trophy combo.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yep, And don't look now, but we got a Game
seven and postseason play tonight. It'll be the Manors and
the Blue Jays. After the Blue Jays destroyed the Mariners
six to two last night, another game. It was not
as close as that score might indicate. The pitching was
terrific for the blue Jays. Lad Gerrera hit his six
postseason home run tonight, eight oh eight. Game seven. Got

(19:30):
so you got a doubleheader, Mark and game seven? How
about that?

Speaker 3 (19:33):
So I told you it's a busy night. He can't
go to bed tonight. Plus got Monday night row. Get
U see what's going on there? You can't go to
sleep tonight. If you're a true sports fan, you go
to bed before nine o'clock. We're gonna have some talks
on Tuesday morning. All right, take quick.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
Time out more in a moment here as we continue
on the Fan Morning show. On another victory Monday for
just about everybody else around here. We'll talk about it
next ninety three five and one seven, another road game,
another win for the Indianapolis coast and one away from
home four and zero at home. They'll be at home
again on Sunday when they take on the Titans. But
we've got a the live saver reflect on yesterday's thirty

(20:09):
eight twenty four victory Kevin Bowen over the Los Angeles Chargers.
We bring in the third member of our booth through
Is that lax as we speak overhearing your little conversation
with Mark Dyton here, James Woyd, sounds like you're through
security and ready to get home, right.

Speaker 6 (20:24):
Yeah, something like that. Got to make sure I get
home for the Shaints. Like a press conference which got
moved up an hour today if let I flew out
of it earlier.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
That did good stuff. So here we go. You're joining
us on the paylist lookers hotline talking about another win
for the Colts, and we'll just start with the really
good stuff. That offense feels unstoppable right now. What was
it like to watch in front of your very own eyes, I.

Speaker 6 (20:47):
Mean their machine. I just feel like, even with you know,
guys being in and out of the lineup, you know,
we saw it without Josh Downs out there. They didn't
miss a beat. This offense is, in my opinion, the
best of the NFL, and that not even in the opinion.
It's just that at this point he was up scoring
so many points. It's crazy to me and then hearing
Mally Cox talk about it after the game, he was like,
you know what, I was trying to tell Tyler Warren

(21:08):
that this isn't normal, but he was like, it's hard
to keep the rookie humble and tell him that this
isn't happen every week when we keep doing it every week.
So he was riding high. The rest of the group
was riding high as well. And I even asked Daniel Jonathanson,
does this feel normal to you because what you're scoring
at is pretty historic and he was just like, well,
we expect to do this, and so I think that
just lets you know the level of that he's playing

(21:30):
at and the mindset that he's you know, maintaining throughout
all the success.

Speaker 5 (21:33):
James, have you ever seen a celebration like the post
Grover Stewart celebration? I thought the entire Colts bench came
out onto the field.

Speaker 6 (21:41):
No, that was the funniest play ever. And he's the
funniest player man, Like he'll make a great play. And
then just his reaction in the locker room, Kevin talked
to him about it. I asked him, I said, hey, man,
did you think about taking it to the house? He's like,
I've had a little most space, so I would have
been making it to the house. So he's an hilarious player,
great player, and you know, some one who I think
obviously deserves a moment like that, because as you saw

(22:03):
throughout the seasons, he had tipped up a couple passes
for other guys get interceptions. How he finally got one
from himself.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
We were talking about Daniel Jones a few minutes ago
and the fact that he just keeps making great decisions.
He's taking really good care of the football and he's
spreading the ball around. You know, it could be it's
always gonna be Jonathan Taylor doing his thing. But from
a receiving perspective, Josh Downs, we missed him yesterday, but
we didn't miss him from on the field because they
just keep finding ways to do things like what's it

(22:31):
like to talk to those guys after the game when
everything's working offensively right now?

Speaker 6 (22:37):
I think the conversation afterwards was, you know, let's keep
this rolling. And one of my biggest takeaways I threw
it in my story. I believe it's up right now.
At the Athletics was talking to Maley Cox. He said, Hey, well,
Reggie Wayne said when we were rolling back in the day,
are saying was just like last week. I mean, they
were gonna win just like last week. And so you

(22:59):
heard that saying. That motto kind of be yelled out
in the locker room over and over again from offensive
player defensive players, and so they expect to do this
weekend and week out. And I think at this point
we have to ask ourselves with how great this offense is,
how all lands should Chris ballor be to upgrading that
defense because the defense they got off the field when
they get not at the most, but again they flirted

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with disaster. I thought in the second half.

Speaker 5 (23:21):
James, do you think they should be more willing to
trade for a cornerback or an edge rusher.

Speaker 6 (23:30):
That's a great question. I probably linked toard dead rusher
ed rushers. At this point, you look at the highest
played players in the league. It's quarterback, who protects the quarterback,
who gets after the quarterback, and I just don't think
they have anybody who does it consistently outside of the
Forest Buckner. I mean, yes, Grover Stewart is great at
run stopping, got an interception yesterday, and like I said,
default holds it down. But the rest of that group,

(23:51):
to me, just hasn't done enough. Even on the day
where I thought the Chargers, you know, they were banged up,
they didn't have really a starting offensive line, they had
a bunch of backups in there, and still were able
to move the ball pretty effectively, especially in that second half.
I mean credit to the coach defense for you know,
having two takeaways, which I think ultimately changes games more
than anything else. But you know, if you look at
those two takeaways, those two resone takeaways, they won by

(24:13):
two touchdowns. I mean other than that, they had no stops.
I mean justin Herbert had a field day against that defense,
that secondary. And then again I would think that, Okay,
if you get Mooney war back, you can upgrade your
defense a little bit. Jaylen Jones hopefully he's back at
some point this season, But I don't see any like,
you know, any reinforcements coming right now in your roster
for that, you know, defensive line, which Kevin, you know,

(24:34):
your harps on it a lot. You invested a lot,
but hell, if you think this team can actually win
it or go on a run, then you might want
to invest more.

Speaker 5 (24:41):
Yeah, I would endorse all of that, and I would
also add this to James. You know, we did see
yesterday a couple of injuries to that defensive line room
Taekwon Lewis and Samson Evilcom, So you know there isn't
I think, really anyone waiting in the wings. I don't
expect all of a sudden JT twom allowed to strike
gold in this rookie season. You bring up Okay, Tavarious
Ward back whatever in a month, and you know, maybe

(25:03):
Jalen Jones helps you out. There could be some answers
at corner. I don't see those answers. There's only one
defensive end even on the practice squad, Like, there's really
nothing that I see of this is necessarily going to change.
And right now you are the Forest Buckner splitting double
teams or seemingly nothing exactly.

Speaker 6 (25:22):
And I think going into yesterday's game, I'll still kind
of petering on, like, ah, should they be all in?
Is this for real? But I'm like, looking at that
offense man in the way, Shane Stocking, as those guys rolling,
I'm like, you do not want to waste this, You
do not want this opportunity to pass you by. And
again you look at the rest of the AFC. There
are vulnerable teams. There's still great teams out there, the Bills,

(25:44):
and you see the Chiefs starting to roll. But I
don't feel like there's this juggernaut or these juggernaut teams
that you can't compete with. You've shown you can compete
with them. You had a great statement win yesterday. But
I think within that statement, like I said in my story,
you said another statement of Chris Ballard, like, hey, do
you make this move? And so I saw him after
the game, shook his hand and I told him, I said, man,

(26:04):
how about that offense? And he just kind of looked
at me and winked, And I was thinking, Ah, I
didn't bring up the defense. I'm want to keep you
in a good move. But you know, I know he's
I know in the back of his mind he has
to be thinking about at least a little.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
Bit anything else. You need to report back from Los Angeles.
Everything good. Did you find a little jug of beer?
What was going on?

Speaker 6 (26:20):
Ah? Nah, no juggle beer. I got see my college
girst friends out to Davidsonvadra, who I grew up with
Dake in Romeoville. He moved out West like four years ago.
So I saw him for the first time in over
a year. Good to see him, and then shout out
to listener Cole, who's flying back to Phoenix. He's the
Colts Phoenix fan. Saw me in the airport he minutes
to go and said, hey, love the show, love what
you guys are doing, and yeah, Usually when I get

(26:41):
approching the airport early in the morning, I'm like, this
is a good thing. This is a bad thing. I
don't know what's going to happen here, but he was
pretty supportive of what we do, fellas, So keep up the.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
Great work, all right, buddy, travels safe and we'll talk
to you soon. Thanks for checking anybody, all right, man,
take it easy. It is James Boyd covers the Colts
for the Athletic of course, our third person here on
the fan morning show, joining us from lax there. So
I was good there. But yeah, as much fun as
we want to have with the offense, and we're going
to celebrate it today. It's a victory Monday, there's no
question about that. But now you start looking at holes

(27:10):
that the Colts have because you say to yourself, all right,
for the long haul, they were really going to truly
compete this year, and it looks like they might. Maybe
they need to make a move or two defensively, Kevin,
what's in play? I mean, what would you be willing
to give up for what? Right now? Those are the
things we'll talk about all week I suppose, But you
start thinking about it, don't you.

Speaker 5 (27:28):
Yeah, you know, you look at a lot of these teams.
I know, the Miami names have been brought up of
Bradley Chubb and Jalen Phillips. I mean, you look at
some of these teams that will be drafting in all
likelihood in the top ten. You know, can you trade
a middleash round pick for an edge rusher? You obviously
are not going to find whatever Max Crosby and Miles
Garrett and those types of guys, but can you inject
a little bit of life into that room? And I

(27:49):
think it's really necessary. I mean I was adamant all
week long that this was a foam with the mouth
game for the Colts defensive line, and the Colts internally
thought it was times in million. They could not believe
what the Chargers offensive line looked like.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
And yet you.

Speaker 5 (28:06):
Don't sack Herbert until what thirty seventh past attempt of
the game, and like, I know JJ Watt and I
and Eagle or no Eagle, I should say made a
iron Egle. Yeah, I'm trying to get no Eagles doing
the Notre Dame game on Saturday night. A great job
with Todd blackledch but they made it. You know, Okay,
Herbert doesn't get sacked. You know, he does a great
job of, you know, knocking guys off of him. I mean,

(28:26):
the Chargers were bottom eight this year in sacks allowed.
I mean, Herbert been sacked seventeen times this season. It's
not like he's invincible from getting sacked. And right now,
with Buckner commanding so much double team action, it's amazing
to me that the Colts can't win one on one
more in other places. So that is an area that

(28:47):
I would look at two weeks from tomorrow, that's the
trade deadline, and I view Edge Rusher as more of
the area to look at than corner.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
How worried are you when you bring it right in
the middle of the season though, that he's able to
kind of integrate into what you're doing and pick you
up right away. Because we've seen some midseason trades end
up working out fine, but sometimes it just takes a
while for everything to kind of come together and you
don't always get that jolt to the extent that you
were looking for.

Speaker 5 (29:13):
Yeah, I mean, it's probably not going to be seamless seamless,
but I do think ede rusher can be a position
where Hey, pin your ears back and it's third and
eight and go make a play and you don't have to,
you know, incorporate them into seventeen different communication aspects of hey,
no this term and know that term. And yeah, sure
there's some stunts and some other things that they're probably
going to need to learn. But pass rush, I think
is one of the positions out there where it's, hey,

(29:35):
you know what to do, Go get that quarterback and
try to beat that offensive tackle off the edge.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
I'll bring this up because I know so many people
have brought it up to me, whether it's online or
an email, and we've had callers and texters talk about it.
Is a guy like Trey Hendrickson in play because it
doesn't seem like he's a long term answer for the
Bengals down there the way things went in the offseason,
they admitted him long term. What do you do?

Speaker 5 (29:57):
I assume the Bengals are still trying to win, right,
you'd think, so, I mean, then they trade for Flacco
for a reason, didn't they? I mean they won the
other night, So yeah, I would assume, given Zach Taylor
on the hot seat, that they would still be trying
to win. So yeah, I don't view Hendrickson as realistic.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
And that's my point, like, what, what do you think
the level of player is that you can attain at
this point.

Speaker 5 (30:21):
Yeah, again, middle of shround pick you, I think you
need to be looking at. You know, I brought up
the Miami Dolphins earlier. I mean these teams that are
drafting in the top ten of the world, that's what
you have to look at, you know, cast offs, teams
that are you know, likely going to be probably sellers
at the deadline. I don't think you're looking in the

(30:44):
world of again Hendrickson's and Garrett's and Crosby's, but you know,
for some reason, like Matthew Judon's names popping in my head,
like those types of pass rushers and maybe not the
top flight guys, but you know, some of the whatever
first or second pass rushers on you know, top ten
drafting teams and if you find an area where hey,
it's a new GM, or it's a new head coach,
or we might not be buried to the previous regimes

(31:06):
defensive personnel, those would be some of the ones that
I would look at.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
Yeah, and we can get some individual texts coming up
here in a minute, but that's the big thing, like
get some pass rush. This team is going to be
cooking with gas, and so we start to think about
what's possible out there and what's realistic and all those
kinds of things. But folks like Mike, you know, I
don't necessarily disagree with him when he says just pull
the wallet out, first round pick, get the man we

(31:30):
need from Cincinnati. I guarantee a super Bowl right now.
The iron's hot. But the reason I asked you that question, Kevin,
is kind of your answer there. Bengals haven't thrown the
white flag up yet, not after that performance the other night,
and so they're probably going to be holding onto folks
for a while. And they know they're getting Joe Burrow
back at some point.

Speaker 5 (31:46):
It takes two to ten goo and you need to
find the teams that are selling selling, and I don't
view Cincinnati as selling right now, but again two weeks
to the trade deadline. So what happens over the next
two weeks do more teams become sellers that maybe aren't
necessary right now?

Speaker 3 (32:01):
I mean, you will have roster decisions, so like mortgaging
your first round draft pick while you're looking at six
and one and everything like that. You also have to
be realistic, like there are still holes on this roster,
even as good as we've played that maybe we need
to instead of going fully in on like a Trey
Hendrickson or something like that that might cost us multiple
picks in twenty twenty six and beyond, do we need

(32:22):
to make the you know, have some reservations and kind
of keep those available for adding to the roster because
there's some guys that are going to be not on
this team next year. And even you still have the
quarterback situation figured out. I know we all expect like
a Daniel Jones contract extension down in the near future maybe,
but as of now, you don't have an answer there
just yet.

Speaker 5 (32:40):
Well, and I just view like, okay, pass, rusher and
corner that seems to be the debate right now from fans. Okay,
which if you are going to make a trade here
in the next couple of weeks, what position do you trade?
I think both are important, let me be clear, but
I think pass rush matters more to me. I looked
at Sunday as hey, if your pass rush can really

(33:01):
step up against Justin Herbert, that can alleviate some of
the stress that you're gonna put on a really depleted secondary.
And yet that's not how the game played out at all.
And again, that pass rush entering the game was very,
very healthy and hadn't lived up to it in my
opinion this season so far. So I would give the
nod to trading for a pass rush and more than

(33:22):
I would corner. I just think that's an area where
if you can disrupt timing with the front, then all
of a sudden, you're not asking your secondary to hold
up for five, six, seven seconds Because I don't care
who you are. You can have a bunch of whatever
you know Stefan Gilmour in their primes back there, and
you're not gonna be able to hold up for six
seven seconds.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
Here's one point Evan ol Maddy was saying. He just
texted and he said, I hear what you guys are
saying about d line but in the first half, Herbert
was getting the ball out really quick. Any validity to
that that you have a quarterback that just is not
going to let you get to him in the first half.

Speaker 5 (33:57):
Yeah, I hear the the quarterbacks are giving the ball
out really quickly. I almost hear it every week with
the Colts. I think they should be getting more disruption
from a defensive line that has a slew of first, second,
third round picks, major money invested in it. I mean,
the Chargers literally started what their fifth and sixth offensive tackle.

(34:18):
Did you see how many times the Chargers subed offensive
lineman in during the game. I don't know if I've
ever seen like every other play seemingly a new Chargers
offensive lineman going in the game. Oh this guy hobbles
off all the way. Now now he's back in two
plays later and they got Dud's run on the field.
I'm like, that dude should not be playing. And next
thing you know, there he is out there trying to
pass block. So I just hear a lot of excuses

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for the defensive line.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
Right now, Here's the one thing I'll point out. We
talk about getting better on defense, and I think if
you're going to try to make a run for it
this year, and you're six and one, why not? You
do need to add something there. But having said that,
I know it hasn't been the strongest schedule. I give
that caveyat but plus ninety two. To put that into perspective,
the Lions tonight are also would be playing their seventh

(35:01):
game of the year. They need to score forty four
points if they would want to make up that difference
to be the number one team in point differential, Kevin,
they have to outscore their opponent by forty.

Speaker 3 (35:12):
Four tonight to do that.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
That's how far ahead the Colts are right now.

Speaker 5 (35:16):
Yeah, I mean they're the most dominant team in the
NFL bar none. And you know, again, I let off
the show with this, and I'll kind of go back there.
I think, what if you're a Colts fan, I think
what you're most encouraged by yesterday? Yes, your offense was surgical,
but you met the moment. The Colts circled yesterday's game
on the schedule. They circled it. That game meant more

(35:40):
to the Colt I think it met more to the
Colts than the Chargers, frankly, and I'm fine with that.
I'm fine with whatever. Shane Stiken spent nine years there,
so naturally he's gonna have a little chip on his shoulder.
I'm fine with Hey, look at the schedule so far.
We're not going to totally ignore it. We realize that
you know Harball Herbert and you know a team that's
made the playoffs a couple of times in the last
fear a few years. Those haven't been the weekly opponents.

(36:03):
So how are we going to react to a little
bit of a higher state game, a little bit more
of a measuring stick game. I think when those moments
have arisen for this franchise lately, albeit mostly at the
end of the season, they haven't met the moment. And yesterday,
like watch Quentin Nelson's reaction at the final gun yesterday,
that man's hopping around like they just hit a game

(36:24):
winning field goal to win the division. That's you don't
see guys react to fourteen point wins in the middle
of October like that very often. And yet I think,
like watch that postgame locker room celebration yesterday, these guys,
I think treated this game in a different light. That's fine,
meet that moment and they I mean they one thousand percent.

(36:45):
Did you say from the start? They set the tone
early on. Sure you want more out of your defense,
but when your offense is able to build that lead,
net crossing Grover Stewart make those plays which not enough
is probably being talked about by both those plays. I mean,
I know James mentioned it when he when we just
had him on, but without those plays and May it
could be a totally different game. The Chargers almost going

(37:05):
toe to toe with you scoring wise. Those were huge,
huge plays in the game.

Speaker 1 (37:10):
It's fan morning show. Give us call in a few minutes,
we'll do the pulse of cultinations, see what's going on.
How you feel about your team right now? At six
and one, two nine, ten seventy. Not only the number
to call, that's the fan text line as well. Two three, nine,
ten seventy. We'll get to some of those in the
meantime for a couple of minutes. I want to talk
some college football. Fernando Mendoza, according to his coach Kurtz, Signetti,
had his best game of the year, fundamentally decisions, running

(37:33):
the offense the way he wants it run. He was
talking about that in the post game twenty four of
twenty eight for three hundred and thirty two yards and
four touchdowns. And I can't say enough about guys like
Omar Cooper and Elijah Surat and they're running the ball
with such balance all over the place, like you want
to talk about a team. I know, Michigan State's not
the greatest team. They were three and three coming in,

(37:56):
but Inana just looks like they look for real. Kevin.
It's fun to watch them look real. Doesn't feel like
any kind of facade at all. They're the number two
team in the country.

Speaker 5 (38:05):
Yeah, big day for Romar Cooper as well. Just love
the way that he plays. There's some baby Deebo Samuel
in his game.

Speaker 4 (38:12):
You know.

Speaker 5 (38:12):
I thought a huge play kind of early in the
first half. They they went for the fourth and two
and then I want to say, the next play after that,
maybe Black rips off that huge touchdown run there. And
that was still kind of a back and forth first
half to a degree there. Obviously you had a little
bit of the weather delay at halftime. But it is
funny like watching that game, seeing the final score and

(38:33):
it's like we have to retrain our brains with Indiana football,
Like it was kind of a sluggish first half, you
know you don't cover, but then it's but then it's like, wait,
wait a minute, Indiana football just won a conference game
by twenty five points, Like.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
What Usually you're celebrating any big ten win.

Speaker 5 (38:52):
Let alone won by twenty five points in like whatever
that weather was there after, mainly after halftime there.

Speaker 3 (38:59):
So yes, beyond deserving of that number two ranking.

Speaker 5 (39:03):
They are a huge face. I will surprise the UCLA
line was as big as it is. Twenty four and
a half coming up, big noon kickoff, so you'll get
the Fox crew there in Bloomington. They'll get UCLA at
the nine am local time. With the noon kickoff in
Bloomington coming up on Saturday.

Speaker 1 (39:17):
It's gonna be fun to watch. But I keep thinking
of that game, and I watched. I went back and
watched both plays a couple of times yesterday. The forty
eight yard touchdown pass that he threw to Omar Cooper
Junior right in stride, and then you want to talk
about dropping one in the bucket to Elijah Suratt there
at the end, not at the end, but one of
his last touchdowns there it was a twenty seven yarder.

(39:38):
He's throwing with confidence, he's throwing on time. He's hitting
guys in stride while they're moving forward, like everything feels
good when you want dots.

Speaker 5 (39:45):
Right, it's not that what the young kids say dots.

Speaker 1 (39:48):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (39:48):
We'll ask Mark Yes, sure, not a lot.

Speaker 5 (39:52):
Of dots from Caleb Williams yesterday.

Speaker 3 (39:54):
But yeah, didn't need to John Drey swift on in
all over the place.

Speaker 5 (39:58):
Sure, Daniel Jones a lot of dots and Banana Mendoza
a lot of dots right now? Is he still the
Heisman favorite?

Speaker 1 (40:03):
He's one of them? How about the kid from Vanderbilt?

Speaker 5 (40:06):
All of a sudden, Pavia, that's where game day is
coming up?

Speaker 3 (40:09):
Right?

Speaker 6 (40:09):
That?

Speaker 1 (40:09):
Could you know?

Speaker 5 (40:10):
He's got some Manzel to him? He does, hopefully mostly
on the field.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
Their number ten. Can you imagine a world if I'd
have told you fifteen years from oh yeah, twenty twenty five,
Indiana is gonna be ring number two and Vanderbilt is
gonna be tenth.

Speaker 3 (40:22):
Mendoza is the second favorite for the Heisman right now?

Speaker 1 (40:25):
Who's number one?

Speaker 3 (40:26):
The Bama kid up there? Simpson number one?

Speaker 1 (40:29):
Yep?

Speaker 5 (40:29):
Where's Jeremiah Love? Top five?

Speaker 3 (40:32):
Ish? Top seven, Ish, eighth eight? That's all after plus
two thousand if you want, running back gets so disrespected,
Like I feel that way about Jonathan Taylor in the
NFL right now and Derek Henry in years past. Remember
like b Jhon.

Speaker 5 (40:47):
Robinson is like way low in the Heisman Awards list
whenever his year was CJ.

Speaker 3 (40:53):
Car tenth.

Speaker 5 (40:54):
Let's sprinkle, So that to me is laughable that Jeremiah
Love is only two spots above CJ.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
Cark.

Speaker 5 (40:59):
But Jeremih Love is easily one of the best players
in college football.

Speaker 3 (41:02):
Jeremiah Love plus two thousand, CJ. Car plus five thousand.
So you want to throw a little money there head
of the Pacers season.

Speaker 5 (41:11):
I think Love is incredible, but Notre Dame's not gonna
have enough Marquie moments to final five games this season
for him to if he's eighth right.

Speaker 1 (41:17):
Now or Monday morning, Notre Dame cabin right there?

Speaker 7 (41:20):
What right?

Speaker 5 (41:21):
Well, No, I'm just being a realist. What their schedule
looks like the rest of the way.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
They're getting better as they go better, as they.

Speaker 5 (41:26):
Get very very happy with where Notre Dame is at.
But look at their schedule the rest of the way.

Speaker 1 (41:32):
I love the fact that they still have schedule. They
don't have that. I mean they could sit there. Can
you imagine Notre Dame could pick and choose and they'll
just do like maybe two three tough games and then
just roll everybody else for the rest of the year.
They could do that.

Speaker 5 (41:43):
I was a little I was like, I'm so glad
they have a schedule, and you said that. I was like, what, No,
are they just going to stop playing?

Speaker 3 (41:48):
No?

Speaker 1 (41:49):
No, they had they they continue here and wait.

Speaker 3 (41:51):
They the Golden Dome and say we're a playoff team.

Speaker 1 (41:54):
And in every other place, you know, teams are trying
to Now we see it in the early part of
the season, not every team won to play really tough competition.
Notre Dame keep scheduling. They've been scheduling. I like it,
just do their thing.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
And they overcame you visiting the USC campus.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
I was not somehow somewhat that well, but I waited
until the football team was actually gone.

Speaker 3 (42:12):
See that's Jeff's sending me pictures of Heisman trophies at USC.

Speaker 1 (42:15):
Mark over there, they got a little replica of Reggie
Bush's Heisman trophy in their little Hall of Champions. And
I'm thinking that probably wasn't there five years ago.

Speaker 3 (42:25):
Did you bury like a Notre Dame Hatton then on
the campus somewhere for Kevin.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
No, I should have Kevin, I should have should have
gone like a little rogue there on sixth night.

Speaker 3 (42:33):
As he's petting the Heisman trophy like it's a young puppy.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
I didn't touch. I was afraid to be.

Speaker 3 (42:38):
Considering Heisman trophies at USA might get taken away, so
it might be like see it while it's there, but.

Speaker 1 (42:43):
Then it comes back. See that's how it works, all right.
Coming up in a moment, we'll talk more with you
about the Colts. Your feedback at two three nine ten seventy,
both on the text line and on the phone. As
we continue a victory Monday here at ninety three five
and one on seven five, the fans. Not only do
the Indianapolis Colts get a big win on the row
against the Chargers there now six and one and Kevin

(43:03):
again another not just double digit win for the Colts
in that offense, but more than fourteen points. That's becoming
a regular thing that just doesn't happen in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (43:13):
Frederick Durst, that's him, Freddie love me, Little Freddy Durst
right there.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
Mark Dyke, say Frederick Durst before excellent, Well he gotta
be probably doctor I said it when he's born.

Speaker 5 (43:26):
Show some respect right there, Mark Dyton, tremendous, welcome.

Speaker 3 (43:29):
Back to Mark. There was that cocky Daniel Jones we
got there. I know, I liked that. Was that stringing
some wins together all of a sudden. He's getting a
little personality for and catching strays there from CB A
shout out to Daniel Jones. Not it looked like a
star studded night inside hinkle Fieldhouse on Friday nights. Brad Stevens,
Gordon Hayward, Shane steik In, Daniel Jones. I thought I

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saw Daniel Jones maybe purchasing a fifty to fifty ticket
at some point. Is there anything more American than that
buying the fifty to fifty ticket at your local college
basketball game?

Speaker 1 (43:59):
Chuff fun.

Speaker 5 (44:01):
Yeah, we had a great time, excellent back and forth game.
Notre Dame built a couple of double digit leads there.
But I would say some intrigued for both squads this year.

Speaker 3 (44:09):
So great time there.

Speaker 5 (44:10):
But yeah, Daniel Jones, excellent, excellent, excellent, excellent, I mean
what more can you say? Stay his wife from the negatives.
He finds simple, seemingly the answer that is there on
every play. He is circling that answer. And it's not
always the flashiest. It's not always third and seventeen Alec Pierce,
Boom de bomb. It can be third and ten and

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a Mira Abdullah. Here's your checkdown, here's eight yards and
now it's fourth and two. All right, Shane Stack can
go into your bag. All right, boom. Here's Michael Pittman Jr.
He's gonna fake, you know, blocking and stealing that edge
like we do so often. And there's Pittman Junr. Wide
open every level of this passing game, dudes are just
wide open. And again Jones is finding him. And when

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occasional pressure arises, he stands in there. He takes hits,
and he delivers the football. Last week down seven, down three, boom,
boom boom, able to deliver for you in the fourth quarter.
It's just brilliant, brilliant from stich In, brilliant from Daniel Jones.
I say this is the biggest compliment. Just two football
nerds loving life, two football nerds obsessed with the game

(45:16):
that are just chess over checkers.

Speaker 3 (45:19):
Seemingly every week all right like Dale and Brennan of Stepbrothers.
Do we just become best friends? Right there, there's a
whiteboard and they're just drawing up plays.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
Hey, there they are.

Speaker 5 (45:27):
You know, I wish they could have been micd up
at mid court for the Butler game. Like we don't
have time for a picture with Blue here, you know,
we got we got film the breakdown and our.

Speaker 1 (45:36):
Did they have a surface sheet in front of them
Microsoft surface in front of them breaking down plays on
the on the sideline there in.

Speaker 5 (45:41):
Our heads right now here we are just dissect what
we're gonna do to Derwin James and the Chargers on Sunday.

Speaker 3 (45:46):
Who's the one man you'd sleep with? John Stamos, Yes, beautiful?

Speaker 1 (45:50):
Uh Sefty is the number to call. Let's go talk
to Josh this morning on a victory Monday. We let
you guys celebrate this as well. Josh, what did you
watch yesterday? Is the Colts just offensively dismantled the Chargers.

Speaker 6 (46:04):
Well, first thing, I just want to say a happy Monday.

Speaker 8 (46:06):
It's a beautiful day. And what I saw was just
great competition by what we've seen from the Colts years
and years ago, and they've just been bringing it back
and I as been living in Indiana, I am very
proud of them. The way Jonathan Taylor is just able
to move up that field and find those pockets, man like,
definitely top running for the runner back of the year.

(46:26):
I will definitely say MVP. The way Daniel Jones before
the pre snap, you could see his eyes darting around
the field. He just he's looking at that coverage. He's
trying to understand the play of what he needs to
do and how he's going to attack it. And honestly,
I don't think I think that the Colts should be
seven and seven and oh still, I feel like Mitchell
he kind of he gave up there against the Rams,

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I think two weeks ago, and I feel like people
are doubting the Colts. But we are coming back and
we are showing him what we were really about this year.

Speaker 1 (46:55):
Well, it's a lot of fun to watch. I hope
everybody's getting excited and it's been a while and I
appreciate the phone call just but I go back to
something we said a minute ago for everybody just joining
us first six and one start in the non manning
division that the Colts have ever had, and say that again, Okay,
so only only the Peyton Manning years did you have

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a better or equal start to six and one. That's it.
Before Peyton Manning, never after Peyton Manning never. And what
has been the problem even successful recently six moderately successful
colts team is getting started out of the gate. And
this team did not have a problem getting started out
of the gate six and one. Many how many years

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they've been behind the eight ball, even with good teams
losing that first one or two games, Kevin, Yeah, I.

Speaker 5 (47:42):
Mean even twenty fourteen, right the year that they went
to the AFC Championship game. If I'm not mistaken, well,
I know they lost the opener that year. So yeah,
it's uh, it's incredible what they were doing, you know,
really ran away from the Chargers yesterday. You know, to me,
it's the offensive balance, it's will do whatever we want

(48:03):
to do. Like yesterday, they missed Josh Downs, Like Josh
Downs a really key ingredient.

Speaker 3 (48:08):
Is he not really important player? Oh yep, we're fine.

Speaker 5 (48:11):
By the way, for those that care about how they
replaced Josh Downs, it was Anthony Gould easily playing the
most snaps of his young NFL career thirty nine offensive
snaps for him eighty. Mitchell had five and I think
Mitchell had a nice catch there near the sideline.

Speaker 1 (48:29):
Is that eight? Is that eight on the year now,
I've only got seventy two ago.

Speaker 5 (48:32):
I think Mark's got some bubble guts. So he just
ran out of the old studio here. But yeah, if
Mark was in here, I think he'd be playing the hell.

Speaker 1 (48:39):
Probably had a chance a little bit later on, no
question about that. But I just love that. You know,
Alec Pearson, we've known that this watching him grow. But
I was watching somebody nationally yesterday who was talking about
the fact he's not just a downhill speeds to threat.
He's making a lot of big catches across the middle.
Had a nice little toe tapper yesterday. He's become coming

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of a complete versatile guy who, yes, can blow the
top off of a defense, but he's starting to get
open all over the field.

Speaker 5 (49:08):
Yeah, he's going to get paid a lot a lot
of money, he is, and I don't know if it'll
be here. To be honest with you, that's what happens
when all of a sudden you got to pay a quarterback.

Speaker 3 (49:21):
There are some dominoes off of that. So yeah, I
think the.

Speaker 5 (49:25):
Rest of the NFL thinks really, really highly of Alec Peerce.
And you know Colts turned down a second round pick
for Pierce back during the draft. I mean that goes
to show you what I think some of the teams
around the league think of him. And again that's before
I think to your point, Jeff, this season he showed
a little bit more of a let's round out the game.
Let's not just be the home run hitter. Can we
hit it to the opposite field, can we do those things?

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And I think he's showcasing that certainly. So yeah, a huge, honestly,
a great contract here for him. How about a great
contract here for Branden or for a Nick Cross. I mean,
you want to talk about one of the big plays
of the game, I don't think like Grover's Stewart that
was one of the funnier, cooler plays of the year.
And like good on Grover, he's the one that got
his big palls up there for the law to pick

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a couple weeks ago. But when you think about it,
the Colts really did. They only stop the Chargers punt
once was at it. I'm trying to think I'd have
to go back and look, but you didn't really naturally
stop them outside of the Grover and the cross plays
until you know, the whatever the twenty one play drive

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there to end the game. Those were huge interceptions, third
down interceptions. And even if those balls like falling complete,
you know, Cameron Dicker is such a great kicker. Both
of those field goals are going in and at halftime,
it's still a little bit more of a you know,
not a obviously the Colts would have had a lead,
but there's a little bit more of a back and
forth to it than what it turned into. So I

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know we've talked a lot about the defense and the
pass rush has got to be better, and that's certainly true,
but those plays and across the one hand are there
and the end zone just huge, huge, and to stop
an offense that you obviously had issues stopping yesterday.

Speaker 1 (51:04):
Well, cults are getting it done. Then they're doing things right.
But people still wantn't it pick and I get it.
For example, we've got Scott who says Herbert has some
great est capability. The d line did have hands on him.
They hit the quarterback fourteen times before he moved out
of the pocket, missing him by a half step every time,
he says. But he thought the bigger issue was why

(51:24):
did Stiking just go for three at the end of
the first half and they seem very relaxed and let
a lot of time off the clock in that last
first half possession.

Speaker 5 (51:31):
Yeah, I know a lot of people have asked about this.
Shane Stikeen is one of the more anal coaches, I
would say, in the entire NFL when it comes to
time management, clock management and not wanting the opponent to
get another possession. Now, we saw it at the end
of the Denver game pretty much almost cost the Colts yesterday.

Speaker 3 (51:55):
I didn't.

Speaker 5 (51:55):
I mean, I think Stiken looks at it in that
sense and says, you know what, we have to get
three here and make sure they don't get zero, whereas
risking it to get seven to him but possibly letting
them get the ball back seems a little too greedy
for him, if that makes sense. I was not surprised

(52:17):
at that drive and how Shane handled it. Again, I know,
you know, both I an Eagle and JJ Watt were
a little bit more like, wait, what is psykein doing here?
He's being too conservative. I think it is just Stiching
is so so cautious, especially with Justin Herbert on the
opposing sideline of saying I don't want him to get
the ball back, and that's what he was doing there.
I didn't have, you know, that big of a deal

(52:39):
with it. I think at that point of the game,
as long as you could avoid the Chargers getting the
ball back, you were in such a great position with
where you were at to continue to kind of pad
your lead. And if they go score there, score to
start the third quarter, then maybe it's a different game.
And by the way, speaking of sneaky plays in this game,
I bet a Mirabdula's kick return.

Speaker 3 (52:59):
I thought he's gone.

Speaker 5 (53:01):
That's a thirty two year old taken off in the
open field there.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
He hasn't looked thirty two years now. No, he didn't
look washed at all.

Speaker 5 (53:07):
He's been the second back that you know, he's been
the one in the game before DJ Giddens. They brought
him up to the fifty three Menters roster. For those
that missed this on Saturday, Tavari's ward that concussion running
into Drew Ogletree pregame is going to knock him out
for a month. So yesterday he missed. Titans game coming up,
he'll miss and then what is it is? The Steelers Falcons?
Are those the next two? I think after the Titans game.

Speaker 1 (53:29):
Yep, Steelers Falcons.

Speaker 3 (53:30):
So that's you know, that's DK Metcalf, Drake London.

Speaker 5 (53:32):
That's a little bit more of a potential kind of
shadow opportunities you won't have ward uh, But Abdullah has
been a nice find here and he's really your backup
running back as little as they do use a backup
running back. And with Ashton dueling out, you needed some
new kick returners. So back there with Anthony Gould was
a mire Abdullah.

Speaker 3 (53:47):
That was a big play.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
It was a huge play. And you know the other
thing they're talking about while we're talking about special teams,
Rigoberto Senchez had some punts, just two of them yesterday,
but they were pointing out too for the national audience.
It's only the eleventh punt verse one he had yesterday
of the entire season. You're seven games into the NFL season, Kevin.

Speaker 5 (54:09):
Speaking of special teams, I think Shane steike And trusts
his kicker about as much as I trust myself. On
Thanksgiving to only have one plate.

Speaker 3 (54:19):
That's notting.

Speaker 5 (54:19):
I mean, it's not happening usually one plate correct. No,
So Shane Stikeen doesn't trust his kicker, is what I'm
getting at.

Speaker 3 (54:27):
Doesn't seem like it get slapped by my grandma. If
I only had one plate, you're wasting away. You have
to have more than that.

Speaker 5 (54:32):
It's been a while since the Colts have had a
kicker missed an extra point. I don't think Matt Gay
missed one at all last year. If I'm not mistaken,
I have some more yams.

Speaker 3 (54:41):
What are you doing? Fourth and fourth?

Speaker 5 (54:42):
There looked like stiken was going to go for it
there before they what did they overrule?

Speaker 3 (54:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (54:48):
I think they overruled and said Anthony Gould actually caught
that ball over the middle of the field. So again,
when you're scoring to the magnitude of the Cults are scoring,
it doesn't really matter. But at some point you gotta
think they're going to get into some Michael Badgeley right
leg moments and particularly outdoors, you know hines Field and
Arrowhead and Seattle. I mean, you got some outdoor games

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still left in the schedule Jacksonville.

Speaker 3 (55:11):
That is one item that could be raining there too.
You you probably keeping on take some leftovers. I don't
have the fridge space for all this.

Speaker 1 (55:20):
Just always thinking about is Thanksgiving dinner?

Speaker 3 (55:23):
Now?

Speaker 5 (55:25):
Is there any and God bless my mother and God
bless my mother in law? Is there anything they say
more than please take some leftovers?

Speaker 3 (55:33):
Yeah? And we don't want it.

Speaker 5 (55:35):
I mean in the meals are outstanding. I'm so grateful.
God bless coling Bone, God bless Lisa. Lovers love them
both dearly.

Speaker 4 (55:43):
Man.

Speaker 3 (55:43):
If I had a dime for every time they said
please take them leftover?

Speaker 1 (55:45):
Yeah, it's their job.

Speaker 3 (55:47):
Pizza, here you go. I'm like, when are we doing this?
You got kids to feed? Yeah, we have, We have
food at the house, we have shopped Mark. In your
next life, you should be a mom. I know, didn't
take much already. I kind of am put that down.
Let her alone.

Speaker 5 (56:02):
Science these days you can maybe, yeah, do that if
you like. By the way, this time tomorrow, I believe
Rick Carlisle year Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (56:12):
Season's over.

Speaker 3 (56:12):
I'm sure he can't wait.

Speaker 1 (56:14):
Preseason is over.

Speaker 3 (56:15):
Sure he can't wait.

Speaker 5 (56:16):
Thursday, Facers Thunder regular season opener, the Pacers Game eight.
Pacers need a point guard?

Speaker 3 (56:23):
This is game nine? Now?

Speaker 5 (56:24):
Did we count the summer league game. Well didn't you
play in the preseason? Yeah, twice in the preseason game eleven.

Speaker 3 (56:32):
Where are we at here?

Speaker 5 (56:33):
Pacers thunder, we'll open up the season. NBA will get
started tomorrow night, So brick Carlisle and his Tuesdays with us.
We're very grateful for that. Sounds like that'll start up tomorrow.
But yeah, Pacers need a backup point guard. It sounds
like opening night. They cut Cameron paying yesterday and can't
teach McConnell. Gonna miss probably what ten twelve games start
the regular season, So that would be a question to
be solved here over the next twenty four to forty

(56:53):
eight hours.

Speaker 1 (56:54):
Well, they gotta find that. And of course they got
rolled on by San Antonio in the last pre season games,
so they are getting ready for the first regular season
game and everybody gets underway this coming week. We're looking
forward to that Spacers Discussion presented by CNJ Water, the
official water treatment partner of the Indiana Pacers cnjwater dot com.
This can start as soon as the season gets going.

(57:16):
And I am saying again for the over on forty
one Kevin, I think that they end up having a
winning record this year.

Speaker 5 (57:24):
Yeah, I like the over as well. There's been, you know,
maybe a pause of concern or two here in the preseason.
I'm not gonna overreact to it, though, I've decided so, yes,
if you placed your pacers, but yeah, no, usually I
wait right until we get underway, so I'm gonna, I'm gonna,
I'm gonna wait here. I feel like, honestly, the Vegas
skeptics are more. I feel like it's dropped from thirty
eight and a half to thirty seven and a half.

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So if that trend continues, then I'm gonna juice those
odds even more.

Speaker 1 (57:49):
I like it. Let's check things down. Mark Colts thirty eight,
Chargers twenty four. Taylor runs for three touchdowns, Michael Pittman
had a touchdown reception, Tyler Warren had a touchdown reception.
Just another ultra efficient day for the offense. Not crazy

(58:10):
video game numbers, but they kept scoring touchdowns. Kevin Bowen,
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (58:15):
Some of it's pretty video gaming to me. Twelve of
twelve in the red zone. The only reason they stopped
scoring in the red zone twelve straight drives is because
they chose to kick the field goal at the end
of the first half.

Speaker 3 (58:26):
That could have They could have approached a franchise record.
I think fifteen is a franchise record there.

Speaker 5 (58:31):
So yeah, Taylor three touchdowns once again, I mean that
is that's video game like. And Daniel Jones, even when
it's not sexy, it's so efficient from him staying away
from the negatives. Five of seven games this year, he
has yet to turn the ball over.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
One concern. The passing game for the Chargers was on
fire four hundred and twenty yards passing for Justin Herbert,
but still never felt like the Chargers were truly in
the game after the first quarter.

Speaker 5 (58:57):
Yeah, I mean if they would have caught you know,
one more score there and cut it to you know,
a one possession game, then I think it could have
been interesting. But yeah, definitely some some defensive questions here.
As you get a little close to the trade deadline
two weeks from tomorrow, the NFL trade deadline marks, some
people are just wanting to make sure we get the
eighty Mitchell catch counter. Oh yes, and there you were

(59:18):
out last week. Caleb was scrambling a little bit to
find it there. So if you get a chance, I
believe it's number.

Speaker 3 (59:24):
Eight, you can do that, right, now, Yeah, he had
one reception, so that puts him at eight, which means,
let's go, you only need seven point two receptions per
game the rest of the season. The hit that eighty catch.

Speaker 5 (59:35):
Can that voice do double digit numbers? Can we know
like seventy two?

Speaker 3 (59:39):
I think it goes up to ten, So I'd have
to really, like doctor or somebody.

Speaker 1 (59:42):
We should have a countdown.

Speaker 3 (59:43):
You get to make Jason hammer to get some AI
audio in there.

Speaker 1 (59:46):
I seventy two.

Speaker 3 (59:48):
Yeah, I could probably order that up. Something tells me
we won't need seventy two. We won't need to reach
that high. No, we could count down twenty we need.
It was a nice catch by Adie Mitchell. Five snaps
for him yesterday.

Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
It's got to play his way out of the doghouse,
there's no question about that. But I still wonder if
he holds onto that football through the go line, what's
his role like after that game eight?

Speaker 3 (01:00:12):
I think we're still at the same number. Probably. I
still don't think he's getting as much run even if
he catches that touchdown.

Speaker 1 (01:00:20):
All right, So anyway, the culture now six and one.
They have the best record in the NFL. They could
be tied by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. If the Bucks
win tonight, there are two games coming up on Monday
Night Football. Tonight, Tampa Bay plays at Detroit in Houston.

Speaker 3 (01:00:34):
That's a sexy that is sexy right there.

Speaker 1 (01:00:36):
Houston just two and three, but they're starting to play
a little bit better, and they are, of course still
trying to chase down the Colts. They have a pretty
decent point differential right now, believe it, at two and three,
they're like over plus forty something like that. So the
double check that. So that's going on in the NFL
right now. We can also tell you that Indiana now
the number two team in the nation in both the

(01:00:57):
coaches poll and the AP pole. Only Ohio State is
in front of them right now, and just doing you
talk about doing what you're supposed to do, methodically taking
a part a conference opponent at home after a I
guess you could say a little bit of a sluggish
start where Michigan State was holding onto the ball a
lot in that first quarter, then all of a sudden,
just it was on and Indiana starts scoring at will

(01:01:18):
for a while.

Speaker 5 (01:01:18):
There one thing to note about Indiana too, if they
can continue to be ranked this high, even if they
were to lose in the Big Ten title game to
Ohio State, they could still get a buy potentially as
one of the top four teams, which again, if you
are a top four seed, you don't get a home game,
which I think is stupid. I think the quarterfinal game
should be on campus as well, but that's for a
different college football playoff rant. But they would then again

(01:01:43):
as a top four seed, you get slotted into wherever Fiesta,
Peach Bowl, Monia, Orange Bowl, one of those slots there,
and that's how you would start your playoff run. Three
games you would only need to win to win the
national title versus the four. So just thought that to
keep an eye on. And again, the fact that I'm
saying that out loud is it just it's amazing to me.

Speaker 1 (01:02:00):
So thirty eight points also scored by the Hoosiers, just
like the Colts thirty eight thirteen win over Michigan State.
They keep rolling on Perdue, got shut out on the
road at Northwestern nineteen nothing, and Notre Dame when it's
a battle of top twenty teams. They get the victory
against USC on Saturday night thirty four, twenty four, and
you gotta be happy. I know you're not completely bullish

(01:02:23):
on this team, but I like it to get better
every week.

Speaker 5 (01:02:26):
Oh, I'm very happy, very very happy. I was thrilled.
Was probably a little too obnoxious for the household on
Saturday night, but some big plays in second half. J
Darion Price taking it to the house. Jeremih Love's the
best player in college football and much needed buy week
for the Irish there.

Speaker 3 (01:02:41):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:02:41):
Marcus Freeman, Marcus Freeman of the hat on still pretty
good looking when he rocks the hat.

Speaker 1 (01:02:48):
Marcus Freeman is one of those guys that just hasn't
going on right now.

Speaker 3 (01:02:51):
Yeah he does. I mean he's you look at it.
You look at that guy, and you're like, that dude
is living.

Speaker 1 (01:02:55):
Right, I'm not him. Yeah. So here's what we have
coming up next in college football. Indiana will host UCLA.
And you said the spread on that is.

Speaker 5 (01:03:04):
What twenty four and a half. I believe it opened
up there. It did see Nico the QBS. So he
got hurt late in night Rutgers game era the Maryland game.
I think he stayed in there, but he was definitely
gimpy coming off the field. But that's a big Newton
kickoff so Fox, you'll get Ucla at the nine am
local time.

Speaker 3 (01:03:20):
I think that's ideal for Indiana.

Speaker 1 (01:03:23):
And uh, Purdue will be hosting Rutgers and Notre Dame.

Speaker 3 (01:03:25):
Purdue's gotta win that game.

Speaker 1 (01:03:26):
Yeah, they got to score some points.

Speaker 3 (01:03:28):
If you can't be Rutgers, I mean you don't.

Speaker 1 (01:03:30):
You don't want is Rutgers sitting there going, Man, we
got to win that game. It's produced.

Speaker 5 (01:03:34):
We don't think right, aren't they aren't? They both winless
in the Big Ten.

Speaker 1 (01:03:37):
It's been a struggle so far.

Speaker 3 (01:03:39):
Berry Odom was deservedly pissed after the game on Saturday.
That was that was embarrassing. That was not a step
forward for the Purdue program, no question about that.

Speaker 1 (01:03:48):
Major League Baseball, we have mark game seven of a
championship series tonight in the American League, Seattle will be
taking on Toronto Blue Jays. With a six to two
victory over the Mariners last night, led oh I had
a sixth home run of the postseason, a nice pitching
performance all the way around for Toronto, and it all
just comes down to one game to go get the

(01:04:09):
right to probably get your your head's bashed in by
the Dodgers again.

Speaker 3 (01:04:12):
If you're a sports fan. You've got a double header
of Monday night football. You've got Game seven of the ALC.
What a Monday. You can't ask for much better of
a Monday in late October unless you're going to a
trunk er treat and you're getting a bowlful candy too.

Speaker 1 (01:04:27):
On your vacation.

Speaker 6 (01:04:29):
Start.

Speaker 3 (01:04:29):
Have we started trunk or treats? I think they start
this week. I've already been told there's a few that
are on the on the checklist, So yeah, they get
all the crap coming up this weekend.

Speaker 1 (01:04:40):
Yeah all right, So who do you like tonight in Toronto?
One game?

Speaker 3 (01:04:44):
Oh boy?

Speaker 5 (01:04:45):
Are they both bullpenning it up? Or do we have
like real starters that are going.

Speaker 1 (01:04:49):
George Kirby is going to start for the Mariners. Shane
Bieber is going to start, So Toronto's going right there?

Speaker 3 (01:04:59):
Man, I can't wait. This is this is a fun
little Monday here. I'm gonna say the Blue Jays get
it done. I'm gonna go with Toronto. I want the Mariners.
I wouldn't be opposed to that either. They're also a
fun team. Anybody but diffy slide into home for the
win here. I want whoever wins tonight to win the world.
So yes, I would agree with that.

Speaker 1 (01:05:16):
All right. We had Chase Brisco, Tony Gilliland, Ty Gibbs,
Bubba Wallace, leave those of the guys going for that
was the NASCAR results yesterday, Taday.

Speaker 5 (01:05:28):
We pointed the NASCAR it just keeps going and going
and going. I mean, Jeff literally could have said Bobby
Labonte won the race and I'd have been like, oh nice, Bobby,
did you pass Terry or down the backstretch for the win?

Speaker 1 (01:05:40):
Here shout out to yesterday.

Speaker 5 (01:05:42):
I know we haven't mentioned that Indiana opened up their
exhibition slate. They pounded Marion on Friday night. Trent sisly
that name. Of course, Southern Indiana folks know quite well.
Eight for eight for the freshman off the bench. It'll
definitely be an Indiana team that shoots and probably makes
eight a lot more threason we're you used to. So
they rolled, They shot a ton of threes in Puerto Rico,

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and they did it on Friday night.

Speaker 3 (01:06:05):
Here.

Speaker 5 (01:06:05):
So Indiana Baylor upcoming this weekend at Gamebridge field House,
perdue down there to rup On. I think that's Friday
night for Matt Painter squad as exhibition season continues.

Speaker 1 (01:06:15):
Saw Pat Night saying some really nice things about their
interviews and what he's got going on right now, so
that that was fun to see too. So yeah, a
lot of stuff Marion coach by Pat Knight, of course.
And you saw all kinds of former legends in the
building at Hinkle on Friday night, right, legend, current and
past legend.

Speaker 5 (01:06:34):
Yes, it was a great night, Hinkel, great turnout there,
fun watching Notre Dame and Butler play. The video boards
look awesome inside a hankle there, so nice, uh, probably expensive,
but a nice upgrade there in that iconic venue.

Speaker 1 (01:06:45):
All right, anything else you want to throw in before
we had to break here, let's break it up, all right,
coming up in a moment, more of your feedback through
three ninety ten seventy. We'll talk a little bit about
the Colts, what they have ahead of them Indiana, What
does the rest of the season look like for the
who's at this point in time, we got a lot
to talk about on ninety three to five and one
O seven to five the fans well with Kevin Bowen

(01:07:06):
and the recently return from more time off Mark Dyton.
We appreciate you being here this morning.

Speaker 3 (01:07:12):
Thanks for having me. I'm glad the key carts still work.

Speaker 1 (01:07:14):
Bill works. We got James Boyd en route back to
Indianapolis from Los Angeles as we speak. We spoke to
him from the airport about an hour ago. It seems
like it's it's pretty much consensus everybody watching this game
who covers it, and even the fans love the offense
right now, happy with the defense doing enough to win.
But if they're going to be true contenders this year, Kevin,

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they're going to have to find a consistent pass rutch,
not just bothering guys occasionally in the second half. But
you got to start getting to the quarterback and changing
because it changes the way the quarterback operates moving forward, finishing. Yep.

Speaker 5 (01:07:47):
Justin Herberts played what I guess eighty some games in
his career and yesterday was a career high for him
passing yardage. So I get some of that little window
dressing there to end the game. But still, you know
those Nick crosscover student interceptions, great plays, huge plays in
the game, but you know, naturally getting off the field,
that's been a struggle right now. So Mitchell, all morning long,

(01:08:09):
I think the trade deadline calls for a pass rusher,
and that's what I think is necessary for this team.

Speaker 3 (01:08:14):
And we did see couple injuries.

Speaker 5 (01:08:15):
Samson Ebcom and Quitty Pay on the d line both
get hurt in the game yesterday, so you know I
would argue performance and potentially now healthy bodies available, you
need some attention. There not really much on the practice squad.
One guy Durell and Jommy who really hasn't played in
the NFL. So I think it's needed because you know,

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you look at some of these quarterbacks in the wild
card picture right now, Herbert Allen Mahomes. I mean, these
are some of the teams you could be seen, you know,
in your own building, potentially in around one of the playoffs,
depending on how the number one seed will go and
how the bye will go. So it's needed.

Speaker 1 (01:08:54):
All right, you ready to do some Goats of the week.
I know James is not here to participate. We are
the good, the bad, the ugly. It's it's time. Mark,
who is the goat?

Speaker 3 (01:09:02):
I'd go with you all that I was the greatest
of all time.

Speaker 2 (01:09:05):
Short here's Michael at the filine.

Speaker 7 (01:09:07):
I shot on Ell Gods the goat or goat?

Speaker 1 (01:09:24):
This guy sucks of the week. You want to start
good or bad? Here? Mark, you tell me the Colts wing.
I gona start Monday, right, Well, sometimes you want to
finish on a high. Sometimes go the other way. All right,
we'll start with the good. We'll let you go first.

Speaker 3 (01:09:40):
In your just returning Sure, all right, guys, yeah, I
know I returned from a week off. But what what
year is it again?

Speaker 1 (01:09:47):
Twenty twenty five?

Speaker 3 (01:09:49):
Twenty twenty five and the top two teams in the AFC.
In the AFC are the Indianapolis Colts and New England Patriots.
Rivalry is back on. We have a renewed rival in
our hands. Here it is, but we have Brady and
Manning partduce Jones versus Jones, I'm sorry, Jones versus Drake May.

(01:10:12):
That is what we're looking at right now. Patriots and
Colts atop the AFC. I wouldn't have predicted that heading
into the season. I don't know who would have. But
could you imagine the AFC championship Colts versus Patriots and
Lucas Oil Stadium Chris Ballad. Chris Ballad would be giddy,

(01:10:33):
the fan base would be giddy. It would be nice
to see that rivalry mean something again, as it kind
of lost its luster as the Colts went through the
quarterback abyss So, I like seeing the Patriots atop the AFC.
I like seeing the Colts atop the AFC. Those games
having some meaning again would be very good for the
sport of the.

Speaker 5 (01:10:49):
Only one in the city likes to see the Patriots.

Speaker 3 (01:10:51):
I would like to see the rivalry renewed. The rivalry
is back. Damn right, that's well done, Mark Dyke May
very good, Yeah, very good.

Speaker 1 (01:10:59):
Kevin Bowen? Who you so?

Speaker 5 (01:11:00):
I gotta go back to what was it?

Speaker 1 (01:11:02):
Friday night?

Speaker 5 (01:11:03):
And James Boyd said this quite often. One thing he
hates about baseball is he can't run his best player necessarily.

Speaker 3 (01:11:10):
Out there every day.

Speaker 4 (01:11:11):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:11:11):
He means it more from a pitching standpoint, of course,
than a hitting standpoint. Well, for one night, Shoe Heeo
Tani told James Boyd, hold my jug of beer Otani.
Six and a third shutout innings, strikes out ten. He
hits not one, not two, but three home runs in

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what is undeniably considering the stage as well one of
the greatest individual games bar Nunn, in the history of
America's pastime. There one dude dominating a baseball game, you
don't get it. And Shoejo Tani did that on Friday night.
Absolutely goat performance from three that horn.

Speaker 1 (01:11:54):
He's almost he's closing on Ady Mitchell. No I said this.
I didn't watch all of the game once I was
clued into it by my phone. I was checking a
little bit of out on the phone because I was
out with my son. But I went back and watched
some of it, at least the extended highlights for Major
League Baseball. I don't know in my lifetime if there's

(01:12:16):
ever been a more complete baseball game out of anybody.
I've been watching baseball forever in my life for a
long long time. To do one thing, I mean, we'd
be talking about a great performance just on the mound
Kevin for ten strikeouts in that setting, to send you
to a World Series game, but then to come back
with not just three home runs, but one of them

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was a tech measure home run. I mean, that thing
might still be going goat incredible. I don't know what
else you say other than that.

Speaker 3 (01:12:44):
It's very rare that in a gay sport like baseball
you see that kind of single handed performance from one
player just dominate to a victory everybody, and he makes
it look so easy he does. It was breathaching, It
was absolutely incredible.

Speaker 1 (01:12:57):
It was insane. So yeah, that was my goat as well.
And I don't mind doubling up and talking about show
Halo Tani because I've never seen anything like that. I've
never seen anything like that. All right, bad, go to
the week.

Speaker 3 (01:13:07):
Okay. I wasn't a big fan of last night's Sunday
Night game. I thought it was a bit of a
dud quite frankly between the Falcons and the forty nine ers.
But we're really stuck in my craw was then seeing
the promo for next week's Sunday Night game, and I'm
I'm at a crossroads, folks, because it is the Packers
against the Steelers in Pittsburgh. So I have the hated

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Green Bay Packers, Yes they do. And then going up
against Aaron Rodgers. Now, I know that's sexy from a
TV standpoint, Aaron Rodgers facing his former team. Mark's praying
for a meteor. I don't you're knocking not far off.
I don't know what I want to happen. I certainly
don't want either team to win necessarily. Maybe the Steelers.
But Aaron Rodgers maybe throws for like eighty yards and

(01:13:50):
four interceptions or something. Maybe it's a ground game kind
of victory. I'm disgusted by next week's Snday night game.
I don't know where I'm going, but yeah, media or
might not be too far off.

Speaker 5 (01:14:00):
Yeah, I'm going to defend my young childhood friend. That
would be the one, the only Kyle Klein here, He
texted me. I rate about Michigan State kicking a field
goal down twenty eight points in the final minute in
Bloomington on Saturday, and that field goal went in and
that field goal covered the spread. Michigan State, Mark Dyton,

(01:14:25):
can you agree on me with us? No final two
minute field goals to decide to spread in a game
that is greater than a ten point margin.

Speaker 3 (01:14:37):
Are good with that?

Speaker 5 (01:14:38):
Yes, I'd agree both, coach, because kurtz Ignety kicked a
field goal on the other side like a minute earlier
to then get you over the spread. No field goals
allowed in the final two minutes of games where the
spread is on the line. Obviously, I know it's a
ridiculous ask by me. This will never happen, But for
our gamblers out there, This is necessary, particularly the college
game when everything comes down to the little walk on kicker,

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to try and save face to where you can tell
your buddies, hey, at least I covered the spread.

Speaker 3 (01:15:06):
We need this. Where do you fall on like the safety,
like the on purpose safety to like run the clock
that is blasting.

Speaker 5 (01:15:11):
As well, like what Mendoza did against Iowa. Yes, that
needs to be obliterated as well.

Speaker 1 (01:15:17):
All right, in that spirit, I'm gonna go. Did you
guys see the end of the half of Michael Pennocks
last night? Falcons forty ninetsh vaguely?

Speaker 3 (01:15:25):
All right? And that game was not most entertaining.

Speaker 1 (01:15:27):
No, but it was a close game. So every point's
gonna count, right, And Atlanta's is at the twenty two
yard line of San Francisco into the first half. They're
threatening to cut into a ten to three lead before
the break, so they could even if the field goal.
Now it's just a one, you know, one touchdown game
to take the lead. But with seventeen seconds to go
on the clock, Michael Pennox Junior, he's backed pass, he's

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under pressure, he throws the ball out of bounds, but
he was still well inside the tackle box. That triggered
an intentional grounding penalty, and because the ball hit the
ground of the ten second mark, they had the runoff
and you get no points on the road in a
close game because you're just not managing the clock. I
say this again and again, and I say it on
behalf of my buddy Jim at Sunrise. It drives them crazy.

(01:16:10):
Some of the clock management you see at the highest
level in the NFL. It seems like there's one or
two games every week where we scratch our head and go,
what are they doing? Kevin? At the highest level, don't
they have one person on the sideline who's just managing
clock and saying, Okay, if this is what we got
to do on this play, be careful of an intentional
grounded be careful, you don't run out the clock. Take
care of this stuff. Why does this happen over and over?

Speaker 3 (01:16:33):
Yeah, I don't know. It's a great, great question.

Speaker 5 (01:16:35):
Yes, there are people hired specifically for that.

Speaker 1 (01:16:37):
Yeah, I just I can't imagine at that level. But
there's clock management the way that it is. So I
guess collectively, but in the form of Michael Pennox last night,
that's my go to the week, bad go to the week.
All right, coming up just a moment, we'll get more
of your feedback. Two three, nine, ten seventy. It's a
victory Monday all over the place for all kinds of teams.
We'll talk about it as we continue on a Monday morning.
Hope you haveing a terrific start to the day. Ninety

(01:16:58):
three five and one oh seven five. How awesome, Mark
that that song could be about any number of guys
in the Indiana college and pro football scene these days.

Speaker 3 (01:17:08):
They've been killing it Indiana locally, Hoosiers, Colts or could
you want right now you're a football fans.

Speaker 1 (01:17:14):
I think Jeremiah loves still running up and down the
field from Friday night, isn't he? I mean, what do
you have like two hundred and twenty yards rushing the
other night?

Speaker 3 (01:17:20):
That boy's good. I seeing him in a Bear's uniform
next season. Just saying it's like the end of a
Hills episode on MTV back in the day, Mark, I
dial up some Hillary Duff on the other side, if
you'd like to.

Speaker 5 (01:17:30):
Unwritten Natasha Bettingfield, if you can work that in there.

Speaker 3 (01:17:32):
Were you a Kristin Cavalieri or an elc fan, Elsie Yeah,
I was. I was team Kristen Chris. I reommate in
college and I had this big debate. I'm like, fine,
you can take LC. That's fine. Yeah, Kristin, gim me
Kristen all day. Taught me a few things. Yeah, you
know it.

Speaker 1 (01:17:46):
It's Fan Morning Show two three, nine, ten, seventy number
to call if you want to get in on talking
about the cult yesterday. You're also just text us up.
Mark is all fired up again this morning. I love
the fact that no matter where you're at, you'll get
yourself even further fired up one way or another.

Speaker 3 (01:18:00):
Does matter if I'm at a BUCkies at a rust
stop in Tennessee, or if I'm right here with you guys.

Speaker 1 (01:18:04):
How many BUCkies did you guys hit over the course.

Speaker 3 (01:18:06):
Of I think it wasn't like we made all these purchases.
It's just like you need to go to the bathroom.
If you have to go to the bathroom on the road,
I mean, a BUCkies rest up is gonna get it
done because those restrooms, those bathrooms are immaculate, I mean
full like door to the floor for the for the
toilets and everything like that. You got full privacy. There's

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a lot of thinking done in a Bucki's bathroom.

Speaker 1 (01:18:29):
What's your go to food choice when you go to
the BUCkies.

Speaker 3 (01:18:31):
There, I mean you got a you got a million
options for your get to barbecue. There, got brisket, They've
got all kinds of pulled pork products. Breakfast is solid.
Kevin has not ventured to a BUCkies yet. I need
a live stream of him whenever he visits to a
BUCkies and everything. Picture the beaver out front, out in front,
don't you the beaver? Yeah, get a full beaver shot,

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Kevin if you can. That's always a good thing, regardless
of you're at a gas station or not. But yeah,
BUCkies is always solid. On a road trip, you see
that beaver smiling at you from down the road and
you're like, I'm almost there. Cheap gas and good food.
What more could ask for? Here you go.

Speaker 1 (01:19:06):
Sounds like you had a good vacation.

Speaker 3 (01:19:07):
It was very solid. Girls had a great time at Disney.

Speaker 1 (01:19:10):
They get a bunch of the candy at Disney for Halloween.

Speaker 3 (01:19:12):
All sugared up, all kinds of stuff. Yeah, good times there.
And then saw my mother in law and sister in
law went to the beach. Good times out there.

Speaker 1 (01:19:20):
All right, good times all over Indiana for football. We've
been talking about that throughout the morning here, but also
paying season ticket holder did want to remind us that
as much as we're into football today, rightfully, So Chase
Briscoe from Mitchell, Indiana, just reminding people he's in the
lead right now with I think two races to go
in the NASCAR playoffs.

Speaker 3 (01:19:39):
Geah out to Chase Briscoe.

Speaker 1 (01:19:40):
So there you go, Mitchell, Indiana. There and people are
asking you about injuries and things like that.

Speaker 3 (01:19:48):
So Jalen Jones, where's he at?

Speaker 8 (01:19:52):
Hell?

Speaker 1 (01:19:52):
And I are?

Speaker 5 (01:19:53):
Yeah still and I are so the return I think
there was some thought potentially here in October, so we'll
wait and see that.

Speaker 3 (01:19:58):
That hamstring injury has been really nagging. And again Mooney.

Speaker 5 (01:20:01):
Ward went on into reserve back over the weekend, so
he's got a miss four games, so he'll be out
through the bye week, so he'll miss Sunday Titans. What
is that Falcons Steelers? I think you flip that around
Steelers and then Falcons. He'll miss those two as well.
So I still am team pass rush more than team
corner in terms of what they need to add. You know,

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if you're debating those two. They're both impactful positions. I
think pass rush matters slightly more, and I think the
answers there like you could talk yourself into maybe Jalen
Jones will give you something. Obviously, Tavarious Ward, you hope
we'll be back at some point like that, Okay, I
can listen to that. Where is that on the defensive line?

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Because I don't see it.

Speaker 1 (01:20:45):
Kyle from Fisher's this might be for you, Mark Crossport
parlay opportunities tonight, Bucks plus six six Toronto on the
money line.

Speaker 3 (01:20:53):
Bucks plus six Okay, I don't mind that. I do
think the Bucks could beat the Lions. The Lions our
very good team, but that Bucks Baker Mayfield is also
having an MVP like season, so you could talk me
into that. I need to see what odds are and
everything like that, so I'm open to it. Might have
to get a multi sport parlay going before the end
of the show.

Speaker 5 (01:21:13):
Should we believe Dane five? He claims that Els follow
him on Twitter for three days?

Speaker 3 (01:21:17):
Lauren Conrad did what changed?

Speaker 1 (01:21:20):
Was she like this screen?

Speaker 3 (01:21:22):
Not the Dane Fife I thought it was? And out?

Speaker 5 (01:21:25):
Can we get some Natasha Bettingfield at some point in
the nine o'clock hour.

Speaker 3 (01:21:28):
I'm sure, sure, yeah, I need some proof of that,
because why would she follow you and then unfollow you?

Speaker 1 (01:21:33):
Dang?

Speaker 3 (01:21:34):
Good luck your lines tonight?

Speaker 1 (01:21:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:21:35):
What did she see in three days that made you
all you know able gifts? I don't know, Yeah, I
mean that's probably back when Jim Caldwell was coaching the lines.

Speaker 3 (01:21:44):
Carmen Electric followed me out of the blue, and she
hasn't turned back yet. She might immuted me, but she hasn't.
The real the real Cardinals verified, yes, verified. She loves
you living and dying to the cubs. Uh huh, I
guess so? Or my love for nineties babes. I guess
that could be it too.

Speaker 1 (01:22:00):
What does the nineties have to do with it?

Speaker 3 (01:22:01):
Carmen electrak need I say more? By the way, the
New Naked Going Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson very good.
We watched that over the weekend. That was very funny.

Speaker 1 (01:22:10):
It's tough West Textingan did want to give Ballard some
credit for getting the difference makers this season on a
Rumo DJ and getting the two new starters on the
old line. When he did so, they were ready to
start the year and it looked like he did a
pretty good job putting the secondary together before all their
injuries started to hit too. Kevin, we were talking in
camp about just how deep they looked in the secondary position.

Speaker 6 (01:22:30):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:22:30):
That went away after a couple of weeks beginning of
the year.

Speaker 5 (01:22:32):
Yeah, And honestly, if you to me, I think that
was the biggest change. Was just that approach from a
secondary standpoint in free agency, you know, that was the
biggest one. And I think you know, from a Shane's
second standpoint, you know, he's super close with Gus Bradley.
I think finally again the defense needs to be better,
but it has been better than it was. You know,

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that change and saying all right, Gus, enough is enough.
We need to change schematically, that was big on both
those parties.

Speaker 3 (01:23:00):
Ballot and spiking coming.

Speaker 1 (01:23:02):
Up in a moment. Is this the real Daniel Jones
seven weeks in? Is this just what we have now?
If so, we'll be pretty happy about it. We'll talk
about that. Take some of your feedback. Two thirty nine,
ten seventy coming good time. So the Indianapolis called six
and one right now they have the number one ranked
team in the AFC, and if the Buccaneers don't get

(01:23:22):
some business taking care of tonight, they'll be the only
six and one team and they'll still have the better
point plus minus differential cults. That offense right now, they
can you get the feeling if they needed to win
a game right now, forty one thirty eight, they probably
could do that, Kevin.

Speaker 5 (01:23:38):
Yeah, that is abundantly true. Yeah, they just outstanding clinical
yesterday from the offense. The balance of the unit. It's
not just one player. It's not just the run, not
just the pass, the ability to methodically move the way
down the field and then boom, you need a third
and seventeen. Here's Alec Pierce for the home run. Obviously
Taylor has shown home run. And you know, I've said

(01:24:01):
it throughout the morning, but this game meant more to
the Colts. They I don't know how publicly they did it,
but it did. This game meant more. They circled this
game on the calendar, you know, the whole measuring stick,
the whole Hey, it's the Chargers, it's Harball, it's Herbert,
it's a road game, it's a marquee opponent. Yeah, all

(01:24:22):
that was true, and the Colts felt that, and you know,
I think meeting the moment has been something as franchise
has struggled with in recent years. And I don't want
to make too much of a mid October football game
because there will obviously be bigger games and the culture
position themselves for bigger games down the road. But for
them to you know, approach the game in that manner

(01:24:43):
and then back it up, I think is a strong
sign of growth and a team that has unbelievable confidence
and belief in themselves right now. And offensively, it's just
it's so surgical. I mean, it's shanstykeing and Daniel Jones
to just football nerds slicing and ice sing their way
through every NFL defense.

Speaker 1 (01:25:02):
I love it. Looking at some of the national feedback
and the covering of the games yesterday, for example, CBO
sports dot Com says the Colts might have the best
offense in the NFL, and a big reason for that
is because Daniel Jones is playing the best football of
his career. He threw for two hundred and seven yards
and two touchdowns in the first half, including a touchdown
pass to Michael Pittman on fourth down in the second quarter.

(01:25:24):
Shane Stiken clearly has full confidence in Jones and the offense.
He had his team go for it on three different
fourth downs and the Colts converted them. All. You're talking
consistently now everybody seems to feel like this is the
real Daniel Jones. Daniel Jones stand up, well, we're we
going to get At the beginning of the year, I
was not completely sold on them getting Daniel Jones this year,

(01:25:45):
but Shane Stiken knew a lot more than we did
when it came to getting Daniel Jones. As we've said before,
Kevin he was looking for a guy could operate his offense,
and boy, has Daniel Jones done that? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:25:55):
And I you know, you often hear people say this
in regards to Daniel Jones the season so far, like
you know, this is what happens when you know whatever,
you finally have a quarterback that understands what Shane Styke
and is trying to do, or man, was Anthony Richardson
really this bat. I think it's discrediting Daniel Jones a
little bit to just label it like that, because it's

(01:26:18):
not like Gardner Minshew and Joe Flacco. We're putting up
these numbers. So I think the praise for Daniel Jones
in whatever way you want to put it, staying away
from negative place exceptional like his ball placement. You know,
it's in stride, it's catchable, it's you know, seemingly decisive

(01:26:41):
with all of his all of his decisions, he's finding
the answer that is there, I think pretty quickly in
plays like do you ever feel like Daniel Jones is
panicked or rush? No, even when pressure is there, I
don't feel that way. I felt that way at the
end of the Arizona game in the fourth quarter when
you're down seven, year down three. He hasn't been in
the situations before as a cult. How would he handle them?

(01:27:02):
And he handled them beautifully and like he has made
such a living I think, especially off of the.

Speaker 3 (01:27:12):
Checkdown.

Speaker 5 (01:27:13):
Really and again, it's not a sexy play, is it
not something that's going to show up on highlight reels?
But I can think of how many times he has
just dumped the ball off to Downs or to Taylor
or to Tyler Warren. Yesterday am Abdullah had one of them.
Where again, it's not some earth shattering I fit a
ball in a window fifteen yards down the field, but

(01:27:34):
let me check it down. Let's have a positive play,
stay ahead of the chains, and then boom mistackle happens,
and now third and ten turns into fourth and two,
and now you're going for fourth and two, and now
you get fourth and two and it's just one more
stab of the knife into the LA Chargers. So outstanding,
outstanding from psych and outstanding from Daniel Jones.

Speaker 1 (01:27:56):
Yeah. Aaron from Minnesota testing US at two three nineteen
seventy says, it's amazing how our game and a very
underrated offensive line can benefit an offense. But it's all
there to your day. And you know you talked about
after the game watching Quentin Nelson jump around Right now,
I almost was thinking for goats, just he and that
offensive line for the Colts because they're giving Daniel Jones

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time to throw. They're opening up holes and what they
don't open up. You know, JT is getting through a
lot of those first contact hits. Like I know, it's
one moment in time, but seven games in, there's what
don't you like about that offense? I mean, there's always
going to be something for people to claim to, you know,
they they claim has to improve, that's true, but they

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just keep putting points on the board every week.

Speaker 5 (01:28:43):
I mean, I know, if you look at schedule the
rest of the way I want to say they play,
I think it's five or six games against some top
scoring defenses. So yeah, I mean there will be further challenges,
but up until this point they have just emphatically passed
every test thrown at them. And you know, maybe getting
into debate of hey, it's just the best team in

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the NFL, the best offense in the NFL, you know,
maybe that's splitting hairs a little bit here, like overall team. Yes,
I do think your defense has some questions that still
need to be solved. But offensively, they are in a
different stratosphere frankly than just about any offense in the
league right now. Dudes are wide wide the you know
what open, Jonathan Taylor is running the ball at a

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level that's right up there with anybody else in the
league bar none, and that balance is just impossible to defend.

Speaker 1 (01:29:34):
A lot of fun. It's fun, you know what. I
Oftentimes we'll go back and forth, because this is what
we do here at the radio station. I listened to
Matt quite a bit and then I'll watch the game.
It's tough to sink them up. These days. You can
do it, but you have to be right there to
do because there's always a little bit of a delay
depending on the service you're getting the football game on,
whether it's direct or whatever. But anyway, I tried to

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go back and forth and just you can almost you
can you can hear the joy in Matt's voice of
calling the game for this team. You can almost hear
it in the voice the confidence that exists in this
offense right now. It's just it's nice to have after
not having that for since the last time the Colts
were good with Andrew Luck to know that you can
score if you get behind in a game, if you

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really need a touchdown. Now it's not out of the question.

Speaker 3 (01:30:22):
Your level of the Colts resigning Daniel Jones to an
extension in season has changed to what. Yeah, it's a
great question. I don't know the Daniel Jones thing. I
feel like it's complicated if you're his standpoint or from
the Colts standpoint.

Speaker 5 (01:30:40):
I would say more from his standpoint, like, if you're
Daniel Jones's camp, why are you in a rush to
sign things?

Speaker 3 (01:30:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:30:46):
I mean if you really believe in your client right now,
I mean Daniel Jones keeps on tacking on millions with
each of these games. Now, you know, if the Colts
wanted to, they could slap the franchise tag on him.
But still I I and again, this is what makes
the Alex thing complicated. This is what makes the trickle
down effect of whatever. Nit Cross and brain Smith. You know,
you can't re sign everybody, and it's a beautiful problem

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to have, but it's different. You know, we're not used
to the Colts being in this situation where a quarterback's
gonna make I mean, right now, he's gonna make north
of what the Darnald comp was or the Baker Mayfield
comp was if he continues down this path. And that's
just the reality of the situation. So yeah, I would
say probably it's more to do with the Jones camp

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than the Colts camp, which is kind of wild to
sit here and say I would think the Colts would
have had more hesitancy of Hey, it's six games, he's
got injury history, you know, the twenty twenty two season
with the Giants, you know, gives you maybe a little
bit of pause. But now I would say that my
thinking's changed on that Mark. I would say it's a
great question. I'd say, if you're the Jones camp, there's

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a little bit of kind of let's continue to bet
on yourself.

Speaker 1 (01:31:53):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:31:54):
Some might say, hey, it's football, you know injuries can
happen to any point. You just want to sign the
deal and sign the deal. Okay, I could probably hear that,
But individual play wise, boy, you just keep on tacking
on comments and tacking on zeros.

Speaker 1 (01:32:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:32:07):
I think if you're the Colts, you would come with
an offer and you would say, listen, clearly, you and
Shane have a good rapport. You guys are jelling. We'd
like to keep this rolling. We think this is a
fair offer. What say you and go from there. See
what he says. Maybe he's game two. Maybe he's fallen
in love with the city of Indianapolis and the team.
He's like, this is finally the system that I was
built to play for. I feel comfortable here and I'm

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willing to sign. But you're right, he could be making
bank and go elsewhere next season.

Speaker 5 (01:32:35):
And I know there are some cap restrictions to doing
an in season extension. I think Steven Holder shared that
with us last Wednesday a couple wednesdays ago, Like on
where the cap numbers at so mark. That probably complicates
some things too, but just looking at it big picture wise, yeah,
I could hear you out on that. And look, I mean,

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Daniel Jones and Chain second, you want to talk about
a marriage, I mean it is the ultimate. I mean there,
I am walking into the Butler game on Friday night,
Max Bones taking nine hours to cross the street. You know,
the the Butler Blue statue that's right there above the
Butler bowl. Max is climbing on them and you know,
doing all that, and he's pet numb and everything, and
you know he's looking in his you know, fake cage

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and everything. I'm like, Max, come on, come on you.
All of a sudden, this super nice car trying to
drive by this guy that.

Speaker 3 (01:33:22):
Puts down the way.

Speaker 1 (01:33:23):
Will you guys move it?

Speaker 5 (01:33:24):
You know, in a in a bit of a joking man,
Shane stik And driving and Daniel Jones riding shotgun. I
like it on a Friday night, the one off time
these NFL people have, Like the one moment they're getting
on a plane the next day to go to La
the one quiet moment handful hours they have. These two
dudes are midquart at a Butler game, Daniel Jones is
buying fifty to fifty tickets. Now, if you leave at halftime,

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can you still buy the win the fifty to fifty
prize or do you think you.

Speaker 1 (01:33:49):
Have to be I think you have to turn your
ticket in and get it.

Speaker 3 (01:33:51):
Well, now they're doing fifty fifties where you don't even
be attending the game at least, like some teams are
doing that. I'm like, that's that's cheating. Now, that's them
all for raising money. But I don't like that. Yeah,
that's I don't like that at all. You're sitting on
your ass at home and you're not in attendance of
the game.

Speaker 5 (01:34:03):
They should have one of those Strobe cameras like pans
the sections and like price is right, and then if
you win the fifty to fifty then you rise in
the whole place.

Speaker 1 (01:34:12):
Class buy five bucks worth, which is a very crowd.

Speaker 5 (01:34:14):
I'm saying Daniel Jones bought the fifty to fifty ticket.

Speaker 1 (01:34:16):
I know, I'm just wondering if you did too.

Speaker 3 (01:34:18):
No win here, okay, checking crowd a hinkle by.

Speaker 1 (01:34:21):
The way to you both of your overall points at
some point. Given the career that Daniel Jones has had,
given that the Colts have been looking for a quarterback
since Andrew Luckin have been striking out all over the place.
At some point, aren't you just the couple that was
destined to be Kevin? Note you both feel that way
at some point in time.

Speaker 3 (01:34:42):
It sounds like a Hollywood love store here.

Speaker 1 (01:34:44):
Well, that's kind of what from an offensive standpoint in
the NFL, that's kind of what it is. I think
we have a statistical and football playing love story.

Speaker 5 (01:34:52):
Go two football nerds, two absolute football nerds that just
love it and which Honestly, the more i see this
marriage playout successfully, the more I'm confused by the Anthony
Richardson draft pick. I must say it just I get
you were probably backed in a corner a little bit
as a franchise, but it is kind of wild.

Speaker 3 (01:35:11):
But yeah, I mean changed.

Speaker 5 (01:35:12):
Second, you know, I've always been bullish on him as
an offensive play caller and that side of it. But
the whole belief in the football team, I think is
something that should be mentioned as well, because you know, again,
to meet the moment, like watch Quentin Nelson react to
the final gun yesterday. That's a dude hopping around, jumping
around for a fourteen point win in October over a

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non divisional opponent. You don't see that very often. And
I think the Colts they circled this one, and I'm
fine with that. I think NFL teams, frankly, and even
college teams, I love the embracing of it. Like you know,
it was easy for Marcus Freeman to do that, but
you know he pointed out several times leading into the
USC game, Marcus, what do you remember from your football career?

Speaker 3 (01:35:54):
I remember the rivalry games more than any other.

Speaker 5 (01:35:57):
Like I like when there's a little public acknowledgment of yeah,
some games do mean more. Some games we realize the
measuring stick is a little bit more of a true barometer.
And if you go on the road and beat a
Chargers team like that in October, now, when you're an
Arrowhead the next month, or you're in Seattle the month

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after that, and it's late in the game and you're
thinking about yourself, is there anything you can point back
to and say, hey, we've been here in won a
game against quality teams, against a legit quarterback, against a
legit coach.

Speaker 3 (01:36:29):
What does that do for you now?

Speaker 5 (01:36:31):
And I think that's a real question in a positive
light for this twenty twenty five Colts team.

Speaker 1 (01:36:35):
Mark, you were talking about the possibility of a Can
you even imagine a new England Colts Championship game here
at Lucas Oil right now? Do you know the Chargers
or the second best have the second best conference record
in the AFC? You could be playing them again? Yeah,
later on I signed for that.

Speaker 3 (01:36:53):
I think every Colts fan would considering howsing yesterday went.

Speaker 1 (01:36:56):
Although doesn't it kind of in Kansas City? Right They're like, yeah,
we're coming, We're here, you're going away.

Speaker 3 (01:37:03):
They are starting to do Kansas City like things. So,
I mean, I know it was the Raiders last yesterday,
but you know they're starting to find their groove a
little bit. Is a dude obviously missing from Patrick Mahomes
and uh, yeah he's back now, And yeah they are
rolling all of a sudden.

Speaker 1 (01:37:18):
So yeah, I mean, here we are seven weeks in
and your best teams in the AFC the way that
they're playing right now. If I had to rank them,
I would probably put the Colts number one. I'd probably
put Kansas City number two if I had to rank
teams the way they're playing right here, right now. Kevin Bowen.

Speaker 3 (01:37:34):
I mean even the top three teams in the IFC
is the Colts, the Patriots, and the Broncos, who would
have had that.

Speaker 1 (01:37:39):
Like the Broncos are weird though, like they could just
as easily be two and five as they are five
and two. Everything comes down to a last second game
or something with them.

Speaker 3 (01:37:49):
Say a prayer for anything.

Speaker 1 (01:37:50):
Giant also be seven and zero.

Speaker 5 (01:37:52):
That sounded like a wild finish.

Speaker 1 (01:37:54):
It was did you have a chance to watch that?

Speaker 3 (01:37:57):
No I was writing or Colts, but sounded bad. Game
looked over, it was nineteen to nothing and then the
Broncos going to score thirty three points. Loder bo Nicks
just all of a sudden turned it on. It was
truly insane.

Speaker 1 (01:38:15):
Yeah, you got bad interference calls followed up by missed
extra points, followed up by another penalty against the Giants,
and it just it was anything that could go crazy
the last minute and a half of that game. Absolutely
didn't even the Packers game. Watching the end of that
Packers game, Mark, I know it was tough for you,
but that was a crazy ending to that game too.

Speaker 3 (01:38:36):
I'm gonna hang my hat on the fact that the
Packers almost lost to Jacoby Brissett. So that's how I'm
handling yesterday's win. And uh yeah, that's fine. You guys
beat Jacoby Presset. Congratulations. Now you're gonna lose to Aaron
Rodgers probably hopefully.

Speaker 1 (01:38:50):
Did you see the Rams bounce back and just jump
all over Jacksonville yesterday? How about that?

Speaker 3 (01:38:56):
Yeah? That was a pummel. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:38:58):
So the Colts right now a two full game lead
in the AFC South over the Jags.

Speaker 1 (01:39:04):
All right, let's do a quick checkdown and get on
to some other feedback things from everybody out there and
listening to audience in a minute, here, Mark, if you're
the nine o'clocker, who's just getting up right now? Man,
do I envy you being able to sleep in on
a Monday? That would be outstanding? Or maybe you just

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got to work. Either way, we'll let you know. The
Colts got by the Chargers thirty eight to twenty four.
But you probably already know that three touchdown runs from
Jonathan Taylor. That's almost seemingly becoming an every other week
type thing, Kevin. He just keeps getting into the end zone.

Speaker 5 (01:39:38):
Fantasy football fans very very happy about Jonathan Taylor. One
MVP vote you get you two, Daniel Jones or Jonathan Taylor.
You only get one, and I'm gonna ask it a
non answer at myself.

Speaker 1 (01:39:52):
That's why they have the offensive player of the year.

Speaker 3 (01:39:54):
Now, I'm gonna still go Jonathan Taylor. I think what
he's done with the run game has made the passing game.
You have to respect the Colts running games. You have
to obviously account for Jonathan Taylor. Therefore, it's letting the
passing game find its way.

Speaker 1 (01:40:07):
All I know is Daniel Jones makes every right decision
almost every play and gets this team along with that
running game in terrific positions. I'll probably go Daniel Jones
right now, just because that's what quarterbacks do.

Speaker 5 (01:40:21):
I gotta break a tie and I'm gonna kiss the
ass of my boss. Oh boy, hopefully it helps out
in the next paycheck. Daniel Jones.

Speaker 1 (01:40:29):
We do our best. But the culture now six and
one sitting.

Speaker 3 (01:40:33):
There, got any more vacation you're getting, Mark, Yeah, I've
got a few seated away.

Speaker 1 (01:40:37):
Yeah, you probably got what fourteen to go to the.

Speaker 3 (01:40:39):
Rest of the year.

Speaker 1 (01:40:40):
I'm gonna need something like that next three weeks. Kevin
Tennessee Steelers Falcons, and then then it really starts to
tilt up in terms of the schedule.

Speaker 5 (01:40:51):
Yeah, you got a bye week this week, right with
the Titans. Is this the closest thing to an NFL
bye week?

Speaker 3 (01:40:55):
Did I see? Jeffrey Simmons got hurt on Sunday?

Speaker 1 (01:40:57):
You gotta show, you gotta show up and still play
the games man. The NFL is weird and.

Speaker 3 (01:41:00):
An interim coach Mike McCoy.

Speaker 1 (01:41:03):
They didn't even Yeah, they didn't even get the dead
cat bounce in that game, which I thought they might
against the Patriots. But nothing going. I think Mike Rabel
was making sure his team took care of business in
that football game, certainly. Yeah. So final score thirty eight
fourteen for the Colts. We were talking about the Titans
yesterday they were drubbed by the Patriots thirty one to thirteen.

(01:41:23):
By the way, do the Patriots have themselves a franchise quarterback?
Kevin he heres so?

Speaker 3 (01:41:29):
Oh easily? Yeah, yeah, James, there's no debate about that.
I thought Drake may look great against the Colts last year.

Speaker 1 (01:41:34):
Yeah. We mentioned a moment ago. Rams beat the Jacksonville
Jaguars thirty four to seven, and later on tonight the
AFC South schedule finishes up for Week seven. Houston Texans
on the road at Seattle, the second of two Monday
night games for you, Mark Dyke in the first one
featuring the Buccaneers and the Lions.

Speaker 3 (01:41:49):
That's the sexy one right there, that one right there,
Sign me up all day.

Speaker 1 (01:41:53):
Gotta like that. Later on tonight we have Game seven
of the American League Championship Series. It will be the
Mariners playing at Toronto. Last night, the Jays kept the
series alive to force the game. Seven six to two
was the final score there. George Kirby and Shane Bieber
later on tonight that pitching and managed would seem to
favor right now the Blue Jays.

Speaker 3 (01:42:14):
I will take Toronto, although like I'm not a not
hating on the Mariners. I would like to see Toronto
do it. But whoever winsnight, just please beat the Dodgers,
who will probably out in kankun right now. Just celebrating
since they have such a long layover from the NLCS
and kind of take a little vacation before the World Series,
all right, Just waving the al flag once the World
Series begins.

Speaker 1 (01:42:34):
Yeah, you put up at w for that too.

Speaker 3 (01:42:36):
There's another there's W flag on the nighttime Disney show.
So we saw that. But then yeah, I saw the
Brewers have zero. Winston's hanging the L flag at Wrigley,
So uh yeah, interesting how that worked out.

Speaker 1 (01:42:49):
All right, college football, we've got new rankings to tell
you about. Indiana Hoosiers are number two, the highest rank
they have ever been in school history. They're hanging out.
Just look at this top six Ohio State one, Indiana two,
Texas A and M three, Alabama four, Georgia five, Oregon six.
Not only the in that pool, they are leading away

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other than Ohio State in that pool. Kevin, That's just
incredible to watch.

Speaker 5 (01:43:14):
And so what did you I know, we asked this
last week, when did we get the playoff poll?

Speaker 3 (01:43:17):
When did you say that? Jeff?

Speaker 1 (01:43:18):
November early November, right.

Speaker 5 (01:43:20):
So we still got a week or two away from
our first playoff poll.

Speaker 1 (01:43:23):
There. It used to be used to be tomorrow, like
this would be the cut off the mid the first
Tuesday after the midway point of October. But they've moved
it back, thankfully, to really give teams a chance to
kind of separate themselves. Another surprise, they're Vanderbilt checking it
at number ten and Notre Dame. It's gotta keep doing
their thing and rising through the ranks. They are now

(01:43:43):
twelfth ranked in the AP pole and at thirteen in
the coaches poll.

Speaker 5 (01:43:49):
Yes, very pleased with what happens Saturday night. Not the
cleanest CJ Carr a horrific red zone interception, kicking game
was about as ugly as the weather. But Jadeion Price
a huge kick return for a touchdown. And the best
player in college football is number four, Jeremiah Love.

Speaker 1 (01:44:05):
All right, we'll tell you quickly what happened in NASCAR
over the weekend. We got a win for Chase Briscoe.
How about brisco and Denny Hamlin, the two drivers that
have collected the most points so far that have clinched
their spot in the final four, right in pole position
for the three and four spots right now, Christopher Bell

(01:44:25):
and Kyle Larson after everything that took place this past weekend.
So that's what's going on in the world of sports.
Anything else you want to throw in, Mark Dygton, where
we got going?

Speaker 3 (01:44:34):
I think that's it. Lock in for a fun Monday
night in late October.

Speaker 1 (01:44:38):
And that Kevin tonight you watched, it was an exhibition game.
But Friday Night in person, Notre Dame butlerhea basketball.

Speaker 5 (01:44:44):
Notre Dame was able to pull it out there. They
built a couple of double legit leads. Butler made a
run at him again your exhibition. You obviously are not
playing your starters kind of full throttle minute wise. But
Jamie Kaiser, big time shooter for Butler, got hot in
the second half there. Finley Bizjack, one of the lone returnees,
looks to be an important scoring piece for them. They
definitely need I think guys like Jalen Jackson, Michael Jaie

(01:45:05):
who has an NBA body on him already to really
step up for them. But you know, freshman showed some
nice minutes for them. I expected Notre Dame to be
the better team, Notre Dame returning a lot more. Jalen
Harrelson had a couple of moments as well. The five
star freshmen for the Irish there so great Friday Night
and Hinkle and quite quite the list. I mean usually
you know it's like the Kaitlin Clark appearance inside of Hinkle.

(01:45:27):
But Shane Styke and Daniel Jones, Brad Stevens, Gordon Hayward.
Oh not a bad little Friday there and so I know.

Speaker 1 (01:45:33):
Yeah, also yep and Indiana all over Marion and you
don't know what you're gonna see, Durian Derees coming in
with all these new players and a new way more
through the man they were making them the other night
as they had an easy one o seven to forty
six win over Marion. But looks like they got a
couple guys that can shoot and play, and we'll see
what happens as the competition gets a little better. But

(01:45:54):
Pat Knight after the game said some really nice things
about Devrees and yeah, they's got.

Speaker 5 (01:45:59):
Well laugh at his joke about it's nice when the
coach has a son that's worth you know what. Shout
out to Tucker Defrees being very good at basketball and
Pat Knight taking a shot at.

Speaker 3 (01:46:07):
His own game there.

Speaker 5 (01:46:08):
But get Indiana at Baylor that's upcoming Sunday at one
o'clock there. That is over gamebridge Field House. So the
Colts play at what four twenty five? Right, this is
the weird cult Titan game at four to twenty five.
I you Baylor at one and Perdue.

Speaker 3 (01:46:22):
We'll have their.

Speaker 5 (01:46:23):
Exhibition slate beginning with Kentucky that is down at rupp
Arena on Friday night.

Speaker 1 (01:46:29):
The number one preseason team in America right now, Perdue.

Speaker 3 (01:46:33):
Yeah, Purdue, I'm playing very well, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:46:35):
So happening in the world of sports. We'll get some
more of your feedback of two, three, nine, ten, seventy,
take a look back at some of the other things
happening in the National Football League and more as we
continue on a victory Monday here at ninety three five
and one oh seven five the fan. How about I
turn on my microphone there, Mark? Does that help? Yeah?
I didn't realize mine wasn't on the inner But another
victory Monday. We talked about the Colts, but for Indiana.

(01:46:55):
I like the fact that to win the trophy with
Michigan sitate, you gotta win two games in.

Speaker 3 (01:46:59):
A row to take it away away from the other team.
Kind of dig that, Oh is that really rule?

Speaker 1 (01:47:03):
Yeah? I didn't know that, yoa. I started read reading
about that later on, but I had no idea either,
So kind of like that idea. But they're they're doing
everything right now. They're doing things they haven't done in decades,
whether it's winning that trophy, whether it's rising to number
two in the polls right now, they got an unbelievable quarterback,
They've got skilled players. They got We don't probably talk

(01:47:24):
enough about the defensive players they have. I know we
spent some time on their linebackers last week, but it's
a complete football team. Like, what's their weakness right now, Kevin?

Speaker 5 (01:47:33):
Yeah, I mean hard, yeah, hard to argue really anything.
They kind of played with their food for about a
quarter or so and then we're able to put it
on after that, and you know, who knows how much
they'll really get tested the rest of the way.

Speaker 3 (01:47:45):
I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:47:46):
I pass off pen State and Penn State lose Iowa
over the weekend, and who the hell knows what Penn
State's gonna be playing for here in a couple of weeks.
Happy thirty second birthday to Big Grove. Grover Stewart got
his paws up there for a big one yesterday. I
thought it was hilarious. I literally thought the band was
out on the field when the Colts emptied the bench
to celebrate with Grover Stewart after that interception. Those plays,

(01:48:08):
I mean, I know, thirty eight to twenty four and
the offense deserves so much attention, and I think we've
done that here throughout the show. But I don't want
to lose sight of the interceptions by Grover Stewart and
then Nick Cross. I mean in coverage, kind of a
one handed play there in the end zone with Quintin
Johnson on him. I mean, those are huge, huge plays.

(01:48:29):
If for whatever reason, you don't make those interceptions. The Chargers,
given their kicker situation, he's so good, they probably score.
And I don't know, maybe the complexion of the game
just feels a little different. Maybe the Colts have to
strain a little bit into the second half than they did.
Those were you weren't stopping the Chargers yesterday very naturally
if you will without those interceptions, massive plays, and that's

(01:48:51):
something the Colts have started to do. Create turnovers in
the red zone. Gino Smith throws to pick a couple
weeks ago. Grover got his big pall up there on
the law to interception. Obviously you had the big turnover
on downs to end the Arizona game. I mean, those
sorts of plays, when you get into those confined spaces
of the fielder is huge.

Speaker 1 (01:49:10):
All Right, you got some Monday morning headlines for the Colts.
Mark Dyke and the people are sent in on the
social media for something weekend. I can't read it. There's
no there's no words on it.

Speaker 8 (01:49:21):
I'm Ron Burgerdy, and this is what's happening in your
world tonight, ripped.

Speaker 1 (01:49:25):
From the headlines of the news'll do it live post
game headlines and things sucks.

Speaker 3 (01:49:33):
All right, So we have as usual postgame send out
the tweets. Give me your five words or less postgame
headlines of the Colts beating the Chargers sitting atop the AFC,
and these are some of the best ones we got.
Billy Slick Willie said Colts turned Chargers mellow yellow, lots

(01:49:54):
of play words with the Chargers bright yellow banana uniforms.
Aaron Waite and said Colts beat the Savannah bananas. Holly
says Colts charge ahead over Bolts. Aaron says Taylor makes
Chargers turn yellow. Any good ones you saw, Kevin?

Speaker 5 (01:50:14):
I like the can Warrnt Edge Rush too, Yes, from Jason,
But as far as the Chargers color, I mean we
would call that more mustardy, right than banana e if
we're really gonna get technical.

Speaker 1 (01:50:25):
Yeah, it reminded me of the Savannah bananas though, and
I don't remember I don't. Maybe they've done it before.
I've never seen the all yellow Chargers. I think they
did it back when, like Savannason Rush.

Speaker 3 (01:50:36):
Yeah, I first did like the Thursday night games where
they was like the color rush jerseys. I think that
was one Charger powers what they call it. Yeah, it's
sticking out to me that it was like a bright
Chargers yellow and like a bright red Buffalo Bill's all
red jerseys. I think they did that at some point. Wow,
finally proud IU football fans says Banana Bolts lose to Colts.
I like that. I like the rhyming. That's also nice.

(01:50:58):
And then other people were weighing in, say get help
d be an edge elite ball distributing play callings as
Jason Ellis and then Eric says offense great, secondary needs upgrades,
which I think a lot of Colts fans would agree
with that one.

Speaker 1 (01:51:15):
A lot of people want them to upgrade the defensive line,
especially at edge rusher. Kevin, what what are the Colts
in the market to get to give up in relation
to what they'd want to get back At this point,
Let's say it's a guy realistically like a Bradley Chubb
out of Miami. Clearly the Dolphins aren't going anywhere.

Speaker 5 (01:51:33):
So you have all of your picks besides the sixth rounder.
You traded your sixth rounder back in August for Mikay Blackman,
who is actually playing a ton for you right now
at corner. I like his competitiveness. I know it hasn't
been perfect, but I like what he's shown. He's really
been needed. So you know, to me, I kind of
look in that third, fourth, fifth range. I think those
are all readily available to you. First and second, I

(01:51:54):
don't know, it's probably a hair too rich. And you know,
when's the last time we've seen Chris Bauer trade two
draft picks in a single year.

Speaker 1 (01:52:01):
Never have we ever seen that that I can remember.

Speaker 3 (01:52:04):
My guests would be never.

Speaker 5 (01:52:04):
Yeah, And but again, when's the last time Chris Boward's
had a six and one football team that looks great?
So I think those are some conversations you have to have.
I am more team, you need to upgrade the past
rush then corner. Yeah, I think both both positions obviously matter.
I just think edge rusher matters more. And we should
point out Samson Ebucom did get hurt yesterday knee injury

(01:52:25):
a friendly fire with to Forrest Buckner.

Speaker 3 (01:52:26):
Taekwon Lewis did leave with a groin.

Speaker 5 (01:52:28):
Injury, and so if those guys are out, you really
don't have a whole lot. I mean, Quitty pay and
Lao Tu La two are your starters. Then j two
Tuimalawaw the rookiett Ohio State, he would be your third guy.
You've got no one else on the fifty three men roster.
You have one guy in the practice squad who hasn't
played in the NFL. So you know, whereas corner you
can say, hey, Javeris Ward will be back in a
few weeks, Hey Jalen Jones, we hope we'll be back

(01:52:50):
at some point. I don't see that at defensive end,
so I will continue to beat that drum. But yeah,
I mean, you know, find the teams that are thrown
in the taler are going to throw in the town Jetslins, Titans, Saints, Raiders.
You know Carl Granderson's of the world. You know Bradley
Chubb's of the world. Jalen Phillips of the world. Came
on Thibadeau of the world. You know Brian Burns, you

(01:53:10):
know Leeds League in sacks. So that would probably be
a different story. But you know those sorts of guys,
are they available and if so, what's the asking price?

Speaker 1 (01:53:19):
I'm looking forward to it. There was one other headline
I wanted to point out, Mark this is a good
one that somebody texted in. It wasn't really so much
a headline, but the Charles says the Colts went back
to La this time. They didn't fall for the banana
in the tailpipe.

Speaker 3 (01:53:31):
That's well done, too nice Beverly Hills cop references as well.
On the way to the airport, appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:53:37):
Saturday afternoon, on the way back to the airport, we
were driving through that area, so we did Redeo Drive
so my son could see that for the first time.
The three or four blocks of houses before you get
to the to the commercial part of Rodeo Drive insane. Yeah,
it's just like, how do I get that much? Not
only I don't know that it's even money that you

(01:53:57):
need there. Those houses just don't make never come up
on the market. Ever.

Speaker 3 (01:54:01):
How many banks do I need to rob?

Speaker 1 (01:54:04):
Did you see the louver got robbed over the weekend,
no broad daylight, someone robbed the louver of the Crown
Jewels of France broad daylight with a ladder and they
just powered in through a wall and took it and ran.

Speaker 5 (01:54:16):
I see somebody finally bought Ursa's property and Carl.

Speaker 1 (01:54:19):
Oh did they did not see that?

Speaker 3 (01:54:22):
I did see, Jeff, did you make any purchases recently RBS?

Speaker 1 (01:54:26):
I just spent I just spent all my points just
to go to to l A for a couple of days.

Speaker 3 (01:54:32):
So I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:54:33):
But yeah, I did not see that that change hands.
I did see that they're starting to show karly at
the end of football games. You see that yesterday spent
a good two.

Speaker 3 (01:54:42):
Three seconds a bit. But yeah, they were. They were
phrasing her and saying they're they're getting done the right way.
The cults are so advisor looked like she was like
a like a poker.

Speaker 1 (01:54:50):
That was I've never.

Speaker 3 (01:54:51):
Seen that a poker person there. Yeah, it was quite
a visor look it was.

Speaker 1 (01:54:55):
She looked at it though I don't think I would
or mark, what are you a? But she was looking
good at it.

Speaker 3 (01:55:01):
I'm not an advisor person. I'm a high hat person
a little bit. But now I can't pull off the visor,
just like you can't pull off a tank top. I
don't think all right.

Speaker 1 (01:55:09):
Closing arguments and thoughts coming up in a moment on
another victory Monday, we'll get to some more of your
texts as they've been flying in all morning long A two, three, nine,
ten seventy. It's the Fan Morning Show with Kevin Bowen,
Jeff Rick or James Boyd is flying back from La
Mark Dyton getting it done on the other side will
continue in a moment. We spoke about it briefly during
one of the checkdowns, but our goats of the week

(01:55:29):
actually Kevin Shoho Tani with the ten strikeout, three home
run game in a contest that decides that you get
to go to the World Series. Just amazing. What do
you think is going on with the baseballs that people
have secured for those home runs?

Speaker 5 (01:55:44):
Kevin Bowen, Oh, I can only imagine, Ah can only imagine.
Mark Tacton, Thank you for the Natasha Beddingfield here on
the nine o'clock hour.

Speaker 1 (01:55:51):
Here we're going all nineties shows.

Speaker 5 (01:55:53):
Were unwritten to be specific here, but I think Dane
five will approve of those.

Speaker 3 (01:55:57):
Pocket Fall Sunshine works though too, with the way we're
feeling with our football team.

Speaker 1 (01:56:00):
Good anyway, I'd imagine if you got one of those
home runs and get it verified from Shoheotana, Like, that's
life changing stuff. If you hold onto that for five
or ten years, don't you think?

Speaker 5 (01:56:15):
Yeah, I mean, it's gotta be right with how much
memorabilia and all that goes for. So what I just
in a I mean easily one of the greatest performances
you'll ever see in a baseball game, period. And I
don't think that's hyperbole at all.

Speaker 1 (01:56:29):
It's a guy named David Flores that got one of them,
and he says he's not yet heard from the Dodgers,
but even if he does, he has no plans of
giving that baseball back.

Speaker 5 (01:56:39):
He's looking through dollars Comma and that zero and that
common that zero. Okay, maybe it sounds good right now,
sounds like a sales background.

Speaker 1 (01:56:48):
He says he's going to sell the ball. That's what
he's going to do. Twenty six year old man from
La said he retrieved Ohani's Otani's second home run ball
hit in the fourth I think from inside Bushes said
he was eating Nacho's in a food court behind the
pavilion at the time. Otani belt the the homer that's
Carlo Mendosa. David Flores is the guy who said he's
going to sell the baseball. But yeah, life changing stuff.

(01:57:11):
You talk about hitting the lottery man, Not only you
get to see that game in person, but then you
get one of those balls. You kidding me, that's living
right right there. Send one this way. I'd love to
catch one, just to sell it. So many crazy things.
I love sports for all these different kinds of things.
I love sports for a seven zero start for Indiana.
I love sports for a six and one start for
the Colts. Everything like everything, knock on wood, everything's coming

(01:57:34):
up Roses right now.

Speaker 3 (01:57:35):
Well, you have sports tonights, your night double Monday Night doubleheader,
and then you got game seven of the ALCS.

Speaker 1 (01:57:42):
What is yours before we finish up the Monday Show.
What's your biggest one takeaway from the Colts after the
first seven games of the year.

Speaker 5 (01:57:50):
Now, I mean, it's got to be the play Daniel Jones. Still,
you know, we've seen Jonathan Taylor be elite in this
league before. That's not the most shocking in the world.
We've seen the offensive line, you know, be obviously one
of the better units. I think a lot of people
expected Tyler Warren. I mean I certainly did expect him
to have instant impact. Maybe he's been even a little

(01:58:11):
better than expected. But to imagine Daniel Jones would look
like this, No, I mean that's that's easily the biggest
one eighty and a positive direction to a preseason thought.
You know, I thought, I think I picked nine wins
at the end of the year. I think I was
a little bit higher than most of my colleagues, but
still to act like they'd be six and one in
this dominant No, I mean I probably had him at

(01:58:34):
this point.

Speaker 3 (01:58:35):
Probably what would I have had him for? And two?
Maybe four? Probably probably for in three actually at this point.

Speaker 5 (01:58:40):
So, yeah, Daniel Jones easily if you had to pin
me down for one thing.

Speaker 1 (01:58:44):
All Right, So I'm going to point out that while
my ady Mitchell Pick is dying on the vine slowly
after every week, I was the guy that picked the
most wins for the Colts this year.

Speaker 3 (01:58:54):
Yeah, you had I'm like fifteen.

Speaker 1 (01:58:56):
No, we didn't have him at fifteen. Well, fifteen, it
might be right, fifteen, might be fourteen. I'd take fifteen,
but I think I said ten or eleven at the time.
Really to be honest, I was thinking more ten.

Speaker 3 (01:59:07):
To be honest, But would you like to adjust now?

Speaker 1 (01:59:10):
I'll take it right now. I'm leader in the clubhouse.

Speaker 3 (01:59:13):
So far, so good.

Speaker 1 (01:59:14):
I'll take I'll take the small wins whenever I can
get him. But I guess my overall take is that
Shane Stiken has what he's been looking for Kevin. Whether
it's yes, it's Daniel Jones, but it's the whole thing, Like,
here's a great play caller with weapons at his disposal
and guys that he trusts implicitly all the way around,

(01:59:34):
which is why Adi Mitchell's only getting three or five
plays a game right now, because he just doesn't trust
him despite all the incredible athletic ability. I get it,
it doesn't trust him right now. You don't need to
trust him when you got Michael Pittman and Tyler Warren
and Jonathan Taylor and Abdullah doing what he's doing off
the bench and everybody else. You don't need him. You
don't have to worry about that.

Speaker 5 (01:59:53):
Yeah, the offensive balance for May, it's just you just
don't know. They've had unbelievable success passing it. Whatever they
want to do offensively, they're doing it. The red zone
issues early in the year, those are long long gone
and change. I can easily coach of the.

Speaker 1 (02:00:07):
Year James, what will be back tomorrow? We got Jay
Query with his thoughts coming up at noon from.

Speaker 3 (02:00:11):
Rick Carlins eight o'clock tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (02:00:12):
Do that and then jamb finishes up to day three
to six Rick Carlisle Tomorrow money at eight

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