Monday 10/27: Colts roll past Titans, IU stays undefeated, Pacers banged up badly

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

Speaker 2 (00:05):
One, two, three, four five at seventy there's seventy seven.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
They give us the Taylor cuts up a bock bearing
threw us ready to the ten.

Speaker 4 (00:17):
He's at the fine he's gonna score you know it, touchdown.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Hty shot fun staff for Jones looking left, He's gonna
take a shot and throws a laser towards the pylon
and that is a cats for Michael Pittman Junior.

Speaker 5 (00:32):
There's a penalty on the play.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
But Petman small the touchdown has Pepman snared it in
with one hand on a twenty one yard absolute dark
under center Jones. On first down, they give it to
Taylor left side. He's at the twenty twenty five thirty
thirty five down the sideline, forty fifty yard line, score
going tighty.

Speaker 5 (00:49):
Rom gonna sideline, who's given a chance tend.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
The touchdown check the tenor takes it eight yards to
the house.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
That's third and thirteen.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
After the penalty. He left backs to the rope.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
He stands talking.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
It's in the rainbow downfield for Alec Pearce.

Speaker 6 (01:06):
He he got it, he got it, he got it.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
He caught it. You want a truckmen, des grab as.

Speaker 7 (01:12):
He had a.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Defender trade all over him and he boxed them out
like a basketball player. Shot good step, He looks left,
stands in the pocket. Now he's flushed on the right side. Lookie,
he's got him.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
You'll call it the truck. And that is he touchdown
for the Colts this time is just down for a score.
Fourth Riad zone trip today for the Colts. Lord jump
pass to.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Jonathan Taylor cuts up a block, He's at the ten,
he's at the five.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
He's gonna sco again. Touch down and it's.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
The fourth time this season Jonathan Taylor has three touchdowns
in the game.

Speaker 5 (01:42):
All's just stay calm here, don't get a crying.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Seven seven seven seven second s.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
I mean, I'll get in the mood for You'll always get.

Speaker 7 (01:56):
In the mood.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
I'll have what she's having.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
I will have a lot more of what she's having.
At seven and one, most points scored in the league,
best record all by themselves, the Indianapolis Colts are cruising.
We talk every week about how special it is right
now to be an Indianapolis Colts fan, an Indiana Hoosiers fan,
A perdue basketball fan and all those kinds of things,
and I want to do that again this morning. And
good morning Kevin Bowen, Good morning, James Boyd, Good morning,

(02:24):
Mark Diyton. We're all back together again, but we also
exist in a city at a time when we're watching
Jonathan Taylor do amazing things. We're watching Caitlin Clark and
Kelsey Mitchell, and we're watching you know, incredible players at
Perdue Basketball and Fernando Mendoz who's been mentioned for the Heisman.
I say it again, it's like I pinched myself, Kevin Bowen,

(02:45):
You've lived to your whole life, There's never been a
time like this. I can't remember. There's never been a
time like this.

Speaker 8 (02:52):
Yeah, I would agree wholeheartedly with that. I felt like
I've done this show already, like five different times this season.
And you know, usually when I've said that in the past,
like I feel like I've done the show before. It's
not in the light that we talk about these mondays,
like the Colts have had five walk on moments this season.
Like again, walk on moments, put everybody in the game,

(03:13):
put all your like that does not happen in the NFL.
It's another Sunday, it's another ass kicking by the Addapolis Colts,
and yeah, it's I'm out a loss of words. I
need to find them because that's my job. But it
is absolutely absurd what they continue to do.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
James Boyd, good morning. You were at the game yesterday
Lucas Oil and they just start strong, they finished strong.
JT amazes you time after time after time. The eighty
yard or yesterday where he's bouncing off tacklers and staying
in bounds simultaneously, might be the best run of his career.
And that's saying something right there. What do you think?

Speaker 6 (03:52):
Yes and no?

Speaker 9 (03:52):
Because I feel like every week we look at a
run and we say that's the best one. So and honestly,
I think the one he had against the Titans in
Week three where he broke like four or five tackles
might have been a little bit better. But I mean
I'm nitpicking here, right, So I think the craziest part
about this and then look this up after the game,

(04:14):
Kevin so JT goes off a buck what was it,
buck fifty three? I think on twelve carries, you know,
twelve point eight something like that yards per carry, single
game franchise record, and then I like, look at Daniel
Jones twenty one to twenty nine, two seventy two in
a career high passer rating of one thirty six. So

(04:34):
I mean, pick your poison with this coat offense right now.
It is as good as advertised. And the simplest way
I can put it is that they entered the game
averaging a league high thirty three point one points per game,
and they raised their average, Like, how ridiculous is that
they scored thirty eight points for the fourth time this season,

(04:54):
I believe, which is just a ridiculous feet for a
team that, again, we haven't seen offense operate like this ever.
I know we want to say since Peyton Manning, since
Andrew Luck, no ever. So this is pretty special stuff.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
It's it's amazing to watch a lot of fun. And
I know quickly Pacers last night they're down seven guys
and on the road. I know Anthony Edwards left the game,
but they were right there at the very end the
last couple of possessions against them Inn so other Timberwolves, Kevin.

Speaker 8 (05:22):
Yeah, when I say I've never seen anything like it,
I include the Pacers' injuries right now. I mean, yes,
I think, Jeffy, you are referencing Colts and IU football
mainly in the same time, but right now with where
the Pacers are at from a health standpoint, it is stunning,
especially three games into a season. Obi topping leaves last night,
I believe Rick Carlisle said hamstring injury. I mean, I

(05:43):
don't think you have many owners in professional sports tweeting
in game three of the season, hell of a freaking
effort by our team. But that's what Steven Simon was
tweeting last night in a loss, because that's just how
dire situation is. I was watching the game Saturday night,
and again, this is game two of the season. In
the first quarter, and they have a backcourt of Taylor
Peter and ray J. Dennis. Like, that's a backcourt for

(06:06):
the Noblesville Boom on Opening Night. That's not a backcourt
for the NBA team in the first quarter of Game two.
And that's the reality of where they're at right now.

Speaker 7 (06:15):
It's just.

Speaker 8 (06:17):
I sit here, I'm like, we can't even talk about
the Pacers in like a serious manner. We just have
to talk about the injuries. Yeah, it's been tough. We
joked on Friday's show that James might have to suit
up for him. That might actually happen. At Hey, you
know what, we're getting very close.

Speaker 4 (06:29):
Maybe the boom so they can elevate one of those guys.

Speaker 9 (06:32):
Yeah, I did break in the Halliburns yesterday's JMV got
a nice little hoop session in with him. By the way,
I'll give credit where credit is due. JAMV was carrying
us the last game and he was shooting that thing,
as my pops would say. But yeah, watching the Pacers
over the weekend. Obviously I didn't catch the game last
night live, but even looking through some of the headlines
and watch some of the highlights back man, after I

(06:52):
got back from obviously covering the Colts game.

Speaker 6 (06:55):
It's rough right now, and it just shows you how.

Speaker 9 (07:00):
They were and how far they are now from getting
back to you know, to the finals, to being a contender,
to being at that level. It's unlucky, you know, to
have your best player go down in a game seven.
But also now just have this feels like this like
injury bug going through your team, where every guy's leaving
with a soft tissue thing. And I guess the silver

(07:20):
lining there, hopefully is that none of these injuries even
Big Mathern. I think he's dealing with a toe injury.
But right now, it doesn't sound like these are like,
you know, super severe things. It's just that stuff that
you know, if you compounded on top of each other,
it's hard to get through all at one time.

Speaker 4 (07:39):
Well, that's where we're at right now. We're gonna be
talking a lot about all those things, especially the Colts,
who are off to a seven and one start, not
just number one in the AFC, number one in the NFL,
and they've outscored every other team in the league. I
think the second closest team is Dallas, who scored twenty
four points fewer, and Dallas is three four and one.
So that's where the alter out Right now. It's a

(08:01):
lot of fun. We're gonna ride this wave as long
as we can. But you start to ask the question, now,
eight games into a seventeen game season, do we start
thinking about that last game of the year yet, Kevin?
Do we start do we start saying, hey, this is possible,
this is something that is within the realm of possibility
at this point in time, or do you still want
to see this rugged second half of the schedule play

(08:23):
itself out.

Speaker 8 (08:24):
Am I allowed to get a little sentimental here in
the opening segment? Yeah, okay, I hate to, you know,
kind of bring it down a little bit of a
Debbie downer here, but certainly thoughts and prayers. Mark care
if you play the audio here.

Speaker 5 (08:39):
It's a great night to be a Tiger.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
I'm here with my.

Speaker 8 (08:43):
Family, poor guy, we really enunciate maybe that Jeff brought
up the last game? Can we really enunciate that last
word there? Mark, if you don't mind on that, you know,
it's a.

Speaker 5 (08:54):
Great night to be a Tiger. I'm here with my family.

Speaker 8 (09:00):
How did he spell family in that instance?

Speaker 7 (09:02):
There?

Speaker 8 (09:02):
There was an h in there? Uh f A m
u h l y it's teasing peace. Yeah, the baton rouge.

Speaker 4 (09:09):
You're gonna go buy his own island to retire on problem.

Speaker 8 (09:12):
Coach Kelly was a doom from the time he made that.
One of my favorite people, someone I loved cheering for. Yeah,
just really a bummer to see. So I wanted to
make sure I sent out my best to Brian.

Speaker 4 (09:23):
Everything is going your way this morning.

Speaker 8 (09:25):
Thank you for letting me sneak that in there.

Speaker 4 (09:28):
We're going to keep banging it.

Speaker 8 (09:30):
A million accent is crazy I saw a picture of
David Freeman holding baby Brian Kelly making the rounds yesterday
on Twitter. And you know, I know everybody's got an
opinion on Twitter. There are some moments where it makes
me laugh very hard, and that was one of those.

Speaker 4 (09:46):
So thank you to that. Twitter is extreme these days.
It's really awful or it's just the best one of
the two. There's no in between. All Right, we got
a lot to talk about today, Colts win pastures, starting
their season, Indiana basketball off to a nice little start,
and we already no Indiana football is cruising. We'll break
it all down for you. Take your comments as well.
Looking for your headlines, Mark, they can find that where morning.

Speaker 8 (10:08):
At Morning Show one oh seven to five on our
Twitter account. All right, go check that out and we'll
reveal those a little bit later on today. But lots
to do and we'll get to it. And we got
a player Colts player coming up later today too, Kevin
correct Yes, Tannel Borderlini's gonna join us at seven forty
five one. For the big dudes up front, I think
they deserve some credit in this. So we've had Jonathan
Taylor on this year before. Figure Let's go with the
Wisconsin Center there.

Speaker 4 (10:29):
I like, he can tell us all about j T
at Wisconsin too. It'll be fun.

Speaker 8 (10:32):
Well, well, they weren't teamate.

Speaker 4 (10:33):
I know they weren't teammates, but he knows the legend.
They were both on campus, but they weren't.

Speaker 6 (10:38):
That I can say about jac covered him in college.
They were in annoying crust us.

Speaker 4 (10:41):
There you go, all right, we'll do it all next
as we continue in ninety three five and one oh
seven five the fans.

Speaker 5 (10:46):
It's a great night to be a Tiger. I'm here
with my family.

Speaker 4 (10:53):
Good morning, Welcome into another victory Monday for the Indianapolis Colts.
It's the Fan Morning Show with Kevin Bone, James Boyd.
I'm jeff Rickards, Mark Dyke making it happen on the
other side of the glass, gentlemen, A thirty eight fourteen
victory over the division rival Tennessee Titan rival. Yeah, well
they are. They've they've had their troubles with him in
the last several years, but not yesterday. Thirty eight fourteen.

(11:13):
The final score as the Colts improved a seven to
one on the NFL season. Jonathan Taylor twelve carries one
hundred and fifty three yards three touchdowns, Daniel Jones had
two hundred seventy two yards and three TV passes. Michael
Pittman Junior eight catches, ninety five yards and a touchdown.
I ask you, James Boyd, is Jonathan Taylor the early

(11:35):
pick for League MVP at this point in time.

Speaker 9 (11:38):
Honestly, his best competition might be his teammate Daniel Jones.
So I would have j T number one Daniel Jones
number two, and it's not a homer pick.

Speaker 6 (11:47):
Honestly.

Speaker 9 (11:47):
They've been playing some outstanding football as of late, and
every time JJ touched the ball seems like he is
making history. I mean, there were so many like Mayan
at the Athletic and then you got CBS Sports putting
ou stuff, and every single time a list came out,
it was like JT and a bunch of Hall of Famers,
which is what the trajectory that he's on currently and

(12:08):
continues to make a case.

Speaker 4 (12:09):
For, specifically Kevin the first player in NFL history with
three rushing touchdowns in three consecutive games. It's hard to
believe that's never happened before, but we've watched it in
the last three weeks.

Speaker 8 (12:21):
Yeah, I think technically the last touchdown was a shovel pass,
so that one went as a receiving touchdown there. But yeah,
three total touchdowns. It's yeah, it's utterly amazing what he's doing.
You know, maybe we can get into Okay, why why
is he taking his game to another level? I know
it's a question I've gotten quite often. I think it's
hard to answer, but maybe a little bit around that.

(12:42):
Shout out to Michael Pittman Junr. I thought he set
the tone in the first half and helping you build
that leads one of the best catches I've seen and
certainly from Pittman in his career, and it's a shame
he couldn't get over one hundred yards. Is once again
the Colts had to go walk on ball in the
fourth quarter there, which kept him away from hundred yards.

Speaker 6 (13:00):
I would your greatest slide. Did you see the slide
that he has slide from him? That made me laugh
because I've never seen why I receiver slide in my life.

Speaker 8 (13:06):
That's when you know you're beating the you know what
out of these teams. When Michael Pittman Junior, the man
that loves contact more than I love the daisy brand
Dips goes for a slide in the middle of the field.

Speaker 4 (13:17):
So the Coults improved to seven and one. And what's
next now, James, as they get ready two weeks from
now to go across the pond. But in the meantime
they get a game coming up already next Sunday we'll start.

Speaker 9 (13:28):
Yeah, this is Mark's favorite game of the year. Got
a chance to, you know, beat down on old Aaron
Rodgers out there in Pittsburgh. So want thing to clarify
the statut that you throw out there, Jeff, it was
three straight games, I believe, with three touchdowns. Think it's
the same opponents. So yeah, j T whoops up on
the Titans like I do. I guess against like my

(13:48):
nephew or my godson when I play against him in basketball.

Speaker 4 (13:51):
Wow, you take it. You don't take it easy on him,
right you?

Speaker 6 (13:53):
No, No, God, kids, they got to get that work.

Speaker 4 (13:55):
He's that guy on the video that's batting the ball
away from the little four foot basket, the three and
four year old.

Speaker 9 (14:01):
The first time that Kevin showed me a picture of
his son holding a basketball, I told you I dropped
thirty on him. So I mean that's that's the standard
we got to have around here.

Speaker 8 (14:07):
Like I did at training camp. I'd also like to volunteer.

Speaker 10 (14:09):
If the Colts would like me to give a motivational
speech heading into the game, I'd happily do it for free.

Speaker 8 (14:15):
Just let me know. I'd be happily to you know,
pump you up.

Speaker 4 (14:19):
So last night on Sunday Night Football, the Packers got
to win over Aaron Rodgers. Thirty five twenty five is
the pack beat the Steelers. Conflicted on that one at all.
You just wanted misery everywhere.

Speaker 10 (14:30):
No, well, I wanted a meteor to drop, quite honestly
in the middle of the stadium, but that wasn't gonna happen.
But so then I was like, Okay, I'll roll with
the Steelers because you know, Aaron Rodgers is gone now,
I guess I'll pull for the Teamy place for not
necessarily him, and he couldn't even win there.

Speaker 8 (14:45):
So I'm like, see, this is why you don't like you,
because even when I try to like you, you don't allow.

Speaker 7 (14:49):
Me to do it.

Speaker 8 (14:50):
So stick it Aaron, all right.

Speaker 4 (14:52):
The other divisional game yesterday that the Colts and their
fans were worried about Houston Texans looked good. They beat
the forty nine ers at home twenty six to fifteen.
Jacksonville was idle yesterday. That's what's happening in the National
Football League. Tonight it'll be the Washington Commanders the Kansas
City Chiefs on Monday Night Football. That one starts at
eight point fifteen on ESPN College Football over the weekend.

(15:13):
Indiana just a beatdown KB over UCLA fifty six to six.
Show no signs of slowing down, doing what they're supposed
to do as a number two ranked team. Right now,
Can I provide some homework for Scotty? Yeah, that's now too.

Speaker 8 (15:27):
Fifty point big ten wins right for kurtz Signett's come
bunch this year wins the last time Indiana's had two
fifty point big ten wins period, like not in a
season ever. That's my homework for the great Scotti Johnston
here on this Monday morning.

Speaker 9 (15:45):
Yeah, Ucla, welcome to the club. I got the Illinois
Hour hoodie on today. It took me a month to
put it back home.

Speaker 8 (15:51):
Unbelievable and like they scored fifty six and Omar Cooper
Junior and Elijah Surratt, we're just you know, they just
kind of hanging out. A couple catches nothing to do crazy,
it's crazy, and Deana can reach that that gear even
without their stud Whiteout's doing that To.

Speaker 9 (16:05):
That point, I some kind of way last night I
came across Signetti's speech that he gave when he got
hired at Elon, and the same like vigor and conviction
that he had there is basically the same message he
gave when he got hired at IU. So that man
has self belief like no other. And I think when
you have that and you build that over years, it's

(16:25):
hard for your players not to believe in that. Right
now and as we see, they're a legit national title contender.

Speaker 4 (16:31):
Fernando Mendoza in limited work because they left the game
one hundred and sixty eight yards in a touchdown. The
team ran for two hundred and sixty two yards as
a group. Next week they will take on Maryland. That
will be a three thirty PM game. You'll hear here
on ninety three five and one oh seven five the
Fan the NBA. Last night, Indiana Pacers, they were right

(16:51):
there till the end. They were within a bucket less
than a minute to go, but they end up losing
one fourteen, one to ten on the road to Minnesota.
Not one, not two, not three, four, five or six
seven players unavailable by the end of that game last night.
Kevin Bowen, It's insane. What's happening?

Speaker 8 (17:07):
Yeah, I've never seen anything like it, particularly, you know,
game three of an NBA season. So I think I
thought so Scott Agan's report, they're kind of nearing potential
medical hardship to where they could get a guy on
a ten day contract. I think there's a certain amount
of time where you have to be out and then
that player has to stay out for X amount of
weeks as well. So James Boyd and JMV will have

(17:28):
a shootoff for that maybe and have to, you know,
join the team in dalla stretch.

Speaker 6 (17:32):
A shootoff. I'm giving it to JMV. He can shoot
lights out for sure.

Speaker 9 (17:36):
But if you need a little defense, couple of fouls,
a couple of point guard duties, I think I got you.

Speaker 4 (17:41):
Fouls. We're looking for fouls, James, five minutes and fouls,
that's what we're looking for. Hey, I got you right.

Speaker 5 (17:47):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (17:47):
So the Pacers lose one fourteen despite a terrific game
from Pascal Siakam thirty three points and ten rebounds. They
will play again Wednesday against the Dallas Mavericks and Major
League Baseball. Game three of the World Series comes your
way to night. That one. We'll start at eight pm
on Fox Serious All Title one. Max Scherzer scheduled to
go up against Tyler Glasdow who I think. Didn't we

(18:08):
see Tyler glassnow for a while with the Indians not
too long ago?

Speaker 8 (18:11):
Mark Indeed, Yeah, yeah, back in the day.

Speaker 4 (18:14):
All right, anything else you guys want to throw in
right now before we get going, Not really.

Speaker 6 (18:21):
I do want to say.

Speaker 9 (18:23):
I feel like the big story that we went into
the weekend with was the whole NBA gambling thing. There's
not a whole lot of updates from that. It's just
been a reaction to all of what has happened. So
very curious to see what the next things kind of
trickle out from that effect, didn't.

Speaker 8 (18:39):
Yeah, just college basketball from over the weekend. I know,
Purdue played down in Lexington on Friday night, actually lost
that game. Kentucky for the most part, looked like they
were pretty much in control throughout. Produce struggled mightily shooting
the basketball. Three of seventeen from three Braden Smith Fletcher
Lawyer six of twenty four. If you're a Purdue fan,
you'll probably point out, well, they've lost the exhibition game

(19:00):
every year with Matt Painter on the road at Creating
and at Arkansas. Watch some highlights. They definitely missed a
ton of open looks in that one, but Kentucky was
down a couple of their front line guys. Indiana came
back to beat Baylor yesterday over a Gamebridge field House.
They overcame struggles from three great from the foul line there,
made some plays in the final minute there. So we

(19:22):
now transition into a little bit exhibition action again this
week and then pretty much next week is when we
get started for real in college basketball.

Speaker 4 (19:31):
Yeah, Lamar Wilkerson terrific in that game for all you.
Twenty eight points in the Tucker debrees also at eighteen points,
So we'll keep an eye on all that. That was
an exhibition game at Gamebridge as well. That's what's happening
in the world of sports. Tyler Bono Bardon, I can't
say it this.

Speaker 8 (19:45):
Morning, say thank you, Tanner BORDERLINI thank you.

Speaker 4 (19:48):
That's why That's where I got confused. The whole thing
trying to be one.

Speaker 8 (19:51):
Now that says allf it's a lineman like joined us
at seven forty five am. Loved morning.

Speaker 6 (19:55):
I did about that.

Speaker 4 (19:55):
I love it now. I love giving the big guys
some love.

Speaker 7 (20:00):
Man.

Speaker 4 (20:00):
We'll do that as we continue ninety three five and
one oh seven five the fan. I will get my
mouth attached to my head in the moment here, Good
morning you you just jumping in the car, turning the
radio on, listening to us. Welcome along. We appreciate you
taking us along for the ride. Here at ninety three five,
one oh seven five the fan. You can talk to
your smart speaker, Kevin. What would you like to say
anybody smart speaker out there this morning? Out one seven

(20:21):
five of the fan ninety three five?

Speaker 6 (20:23):
All right, I thought I thought it was Alexa play
knuck if you buck.

Speaker 8 (20:28):
We'ren't a desperate time for ratings, so I can't afford
to have anybody'll stop listening to us.

Speaker 4 (20:33):
We're doing okay.

Speaker 8 (20:35):
I said they played knuck if you buck at the
Colts game.

Speaker 4 (20:38):
That's true.

Speaker 8 (20:39):
I thought I heard that through the glass. I just
hear the bass, frankly through the glass.

Speaker 9 (20:43):
Usually the next stadium update needs open air press box. Yeah,
I want to go to it hear that. And also
on the most here is not the MVP chance. I
thought rained down throughout the game for a.

Speaker 8 (20:52):
J was that for the first touchdown you could hear
that after the first one that I thought.

Speaker 9 (20:55):
It got louder the first one. It was kind of like,
all right, let's just run a little feeler out there.
The eighty yard one, oh, those were like full blown.
This isn't like a gimmick. We're not playing around here.
Give them the award.

Speaker 8 (21:06):
And the eighty yarder was still you know when you're
lingered on the concourse, you know that was still early
third quarter. Word, it's like, wait, are you all the
way back in your seats there? So yeah, the crowd
definitely had the MVP chance going from number twenty eight.

Speaker 4 (21:16):
All right, Tanner Bordolini is going to join us in
about ten minutes. We'll talk to him about the great
start for the Colts and what it's like blocking for
Jonathan Taylor and Daniel Jones and all those kinds of
things that'll be coming your way. In just a few minutes.
We'll open up the fan text line as well. Throughout
the morning, you want to give us your thoughts on
the weekend. It was whether it's the Colts, IU football,
whatever it happens to be, two three nine ten seventy

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is the number three one seven two nine ten seventy,
And we will read some of those out throughout the
course of the day. But I want to get back
to just a head scratching thing as we talk about
the Colts. I mean, we talk about how everything is
so big money these days. And you see big money.
You know, Jerry Jones got mad, didn't want to pay
big money to Micah Parsons and he's helping the Packers

(21:59):
do their thing right now, and there's money everywhere, and
Brian Kelly gonna get fifty four million dollars to get
the heck out of Louisiana. Say, it's the same guy
that hired and gave a seventy six million dollar buyout
to Jimbo Fisher too. Is that the guy you want
running your program? Every time you turn around, he's hiring
somebody and they end up getting fifty to seventy five

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million dollars on the way out.

Speaker 8 (22:21):
In my next life, I need to be a college
football agent man. That was my go to the week
last weekend, right, or maybe that was two weekends ago.
James Franklin's agent is this the same? Does Brian Kelly
have the same agent as all? Jimmy Sexton? Isn't he
the big time agent there?

Speaker 7 (22:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (22:36):
But while we're talking about Colts, I do want to
talk about the defense. I know we've we've talked about
the pass rush, and we've talked about the injuries and
the secondary and what that means and overall how they're doing.
But they seem to be doing what they need to
do to get wins.

Speaker 8 (22:52):
Yeah, I'm gonna have no grand takeaways in a very
positive direction for the defense. I mean, you know, I
don't think the Titans offense is necessarily the barometer for
how you should have value await this defense. So yeah,
I mean nice for yesterday, I don't again, I don't
think anything to to a big picture. I still think
they need a trade deadline move in the next eight days.
So that's probably my lasting thought on the defense. You know,

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obviously they did a nice job holding Tennessee out of
the end zone for the bulk of yesterday. I thought
Tennessee moved it decently well on say seven other ten
drives got to Indie territory. I thought Mike McCoy had
some wild decision making and punting the ball near midfield
past midfield. It looked like Brian Callahan was coaching from
Week three again.

Speaker 4 (23:34):
I don't think his quarterback like the decision.

Speaker 8 (23:36):
I was gonna say, if I were came Ward, I
would have been irate he was.

Speaker 4 (23:39):
They were showing him on the sideline. He was not
a happy camper, and that turned led to an immediate
Jonathan Taylor, big old run. I believe, did it not?

Speaker 8 (23:47):
You know again, James, I'm sure you've gotten this a lot.
Why is Taylor seemingly taking into another level? And I
think it's a hard question to answer, but if I
had to give one, I would say, and it doesn't
sound like, you know, maybe the most whatever enlightening or
in depth reason why. I don't know if I've ever

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seen him go through an off season and a start
to the season this healthy, and if you think back
to it, I mean he has missed several games really
in each of the last few seasons. You know, I
think everything around that contract situation in twenty twenty whatever
that was twenty twenty three, I guess all of it
was kind of weird and kind of awkward. And you know,

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he's had the nagging ankle injury. Remember he had the
thumb late one year that he also was sidelined for.
I can't remember the last time he's missed a practice,
let alone showing up on the injury report. And we're
now eight weeks into the season. And when I say
missed a practice, I'm talking training camp, I'm talking spring.
I mean dudes rest all the time, particularly dudes that

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play running back or have the wear and tear, yeah,
that he's had dating back to his college career at Wisconsin.
So to me, I'd start there per scene health, and
I think you see it, and I think that has
led to the most highlight reel runs that I've seen
from Taylor. I'll go all the way back to Week
two against Denver when that dude is right there in

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the backfield ready to take Jonathan Taylor down and he
side steps a guy in the backfield and he turns
negative two, negative three into sixty something. And then you
brought up the run against Tennessee down there in Nashville
in week three. That very next week went again middle
of the field. He's got guys that are gonna make
a tackle and it's gonna be a nice gain. But no, no, no,
he you know, side steps and cuts and breaks arm tackles.

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The next thing you know, he's in the end zone.
And then, of course yesterday, I mean that eighty yarder
when you watch it, I don't care what cam wrangle
you're watching it from. That had no business hitting the
sideline and then taking it to a Usain Bolt level
sprint down the sideline and the balance on the sideline.
I said to Mike Chappel as soon as the play
was happening, I go, there's no way he stayed in bounds, right,

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And yet he did and tiptoed, And to say tiptoe
it'd be a disservice to the speed that he reached.
He is full throttle in still having the balance to
outrun DBS all the way to the end zone. So
I'd say that pristine health and more highlight reel runs
on why he has taken an already Canton, Ohio career

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to another level.

Speaker 9 (26:21):
So I would agree with the health factor for sure.
I think that's number one on the list. But one
A to me is the arrival of Daniel Jones and
JT talked about it after the game, and he kept
mentioning how it wasn't just him and it was the
entire offense.

Speaker 6 (26:38):
It was Daniel Jones doing his thing.

Speaker 9 (26:39):
And I think the part that he alluded to is
that defenses have to play them honestly because of Daniel Jones.
You can't stack the box against them, because I mean,
there's been times where you see great running backs on
sort of mediocre teams or even good teams, but their
quarterback isn't the guy capable of doing with Daniel Jones

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is doing. So I think a lot of times you're
asking a defense to pick their poison. Okay, if you
stack the box, good luck trying to keep Daniel Jones
pushing the ball down the field or scoring or beating
you or getting the ball Tyler Warren or somebody like that.
And then if you don't stack the box, I'm just
gonna gash you with the best running back in the
world right now. So I think that to me is

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what stands out is just the balance, because again I
had to stop myself and go, wait a second. I
know we are all on the MVP train for JT,
and I do think that if I had to make
a blister or ballot today, he'll.

Speaker 6 (27:34):
Be number one on my list.

Speaker 9 (27:36):
But the other guys at MVV level two and I
get that it's less like in your face, But twenty one,
twenty nine, two seventy two, three touchdowns, I mean no turnovers. Again,
I believe he's only had a turnover in two of
their first eight games of the year. That to me
is what makes it all work, because we've seen JT

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have a season similar to this. I think he's this
year obviously, But the difference to me is the quarterback
play is so much better. I mean, this is the
best quarterback play they've had since Andrew Luck probably. I mean, well,
I don't want to take away from Philip Rivers. Uncle
Phil was pretty good in twenty twenty, but I mean,
this is good stuff we're seeing from Daniel Jones.

Speaker 4 (28:16):
One of the things I love about this team, and
I used to talk about this all the time, and
I've always talked about it, and I hear it from
coaches all the time, the amount of explosive plays that
this team puts out week after week. Yesterday a great
example we talked about the eighty yard er. Do you realize,
if you take the eighty yards away from Jonathan Taylor,
he had eleven carries for seventy three yards, which is
a heck of an average just in and of itself.

Speaker 8 (28:38):
I think his first run of the day was one
of the better runs. But yet there were all three
tackles and all of a sudden, it's twelve whatever. He
had twelve fourteen.

Speaker 9 (28:44):
Yards, say, their first three or four plays, it was like, okay,
it wasn't even the fact that they were gaining yards.

Speaker 6 (28:52):
Their first three or four players were like fifteen.

Speaker 4 (28:54):
Yards upop boom, boom, yeah.

Speaker 7 (28:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (28:56):
And then they got a field goal, and I guess
that they got a little annoyed with that and they
what they usually do with.

Speaker 8 (29:00):
That score touch play. They kind of stunted that opening drive.
And Jeff, to your point, you know, how about the balance.
You know, again, they haven't had a one hundred yard
receiver through eight weeks. That's kind of wild. You would
think you just kind of fall into one hundred yard
wide out or tight end and they haven't had one yet. Again,
part of it is because the Colts have played walk

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on ball in four of their eight games a season.
You don't empty the bench of the NFL very rarely
like this is one of the very rare weeks in
the NFL. If you look around the league yesterday, a
ton of blowouts. That's not usually the norm at all,
but for the Colts it has been this season. You know,
these twenty point wins, three score leads before halftime and James,

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what did I say to you on Friday? More snaps
for Riley Leonard or Adi Mitchell? And I meant that
all seriousness, because I thought Riley Leonard would get into
the game and would play. It was more for Ady Mitchell.
To be clear, Adie Mitchell did play a sprinkle of
snaps early on in that game. But that's how this
team has, like I guess, earned the fact that, like

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I sit in here forty eight hours before a game
and I feel abundantly confident that the backup quarterback is
going to play, because.

Speaker 6 (30:13):
That's crazy to get It's going to be crazy.

Speaker 8 (30:15):
Sheer dominance, and it's such a slap in the face
of the opponent. But it's also a massive compliment to
m colets.

Speaker 6 (30:21):
I mean, it was ten to seven and it ended
thirty eight to fourteen.

Speaker 8 (30:26):
Goodness, great shous and it was over before the fourth
quarter started. It was not even like you build that
in whatever the final like five you know, minutes of
the game, and you kind of backed or your way
to that number. It was I mean your last points
were scored what early in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 9 (30:39):
Yeah, we have someone on the text line saying I
think JT trust DJ to put him in the right
place to make the run, more importantly, to make a
catch or the blot.

Speaker 6 (30:47):
That's why he's improved so much. He's always talked about that.

Speaker 9 (30:50):
After last week's game, I was asking JT, what's the
difference this year he feels, and he's he kind of
I'm paraphrasing, but he described as if he was taking
a test with all the answers already and the teacher
giving you the test is your teammates, make sure you
know key and on that. Make sure you know that,
check right there, make sure you know this. And so

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he's playing the game on with the mattin Easymoe. You
know he's already as talented as he is, So it
just super charges of what we're seeing.

Speaker 8 (31:18):
Yeah, I think that is a big part of it.
I also think his ability, I go back to health,
his ability to get to that extra gear at the
second level, Like, I just feel like he revs it
up so much quicker, and he's always reaped it up.
But that home run speed, I mean that eighty yard run,
he just he made DB's look like they were linebackers or.

Speaker 6 (31:37):
He's not supposed to move that fast at that size.

Speaker 7 (31:39):
Right.

Speaker 4 (31:41):
Well, everything's going well for the Colts right now. The
running game, the receiving game, the quarterback play, the offensive
line play has been terrific. In here to tell us
more about that. Tanner Bordolini, the offensive lineman for the
Indianapolis Colts, on the Payless Liquers Hotline. Good morning on
another victory Monday for the Indianapolis Colts. I would have
guessed that you're okay with this getting old, this this

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victory Monday thing, right, No, it.

Speaker 7 (32:06):
Has been a lot of fun to be a part of.

Speaker 6 (32:07):
But I got to keep them rolling, absolutely, Tanner.

Speaker 9 (32:12):
When you look at what this team is able to
be able to do offensively, how impressive is it or
how much fun is it? Rather to be a fan
every now and then, like, for example, when you're blocking
for a play, I don't know how often you get
a chance to just sit there and watch the rest
of it. But when JT goes for eighty yards, what's
your reaction to what you're seeing on a regular basis.

Speaker 7 (32:37):
I mean it's pretty awesome. I think you see some
of the players, our guys make a weekend week out,
it's always extremely impressive. You know, watching JT break that
adr touchdown something that I don't think ever gets old.
You know, they think the kid inside he lives a
little bit watching him make plays like that, and it's, uh,
you know, you get the chance to be a fan again.
You see Pitt make a grab like that in the

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end zone yesterday, It's like, oh my, did you see that? Uh.
I think we're just as excited as the fans are.
And it's been really a lot of fun to be
a part of. And uh, I know, I think me
I can speak for everyone on the offense when I
say we're having a blast out there.

Speaker 8 (33:10):
Tanner, Mike, did you see that moment was when you
out jumped Shane Steichen on the sidelines. There you got
Shane's got to get his vertical up.

Speaker 7 (33:20):
Oh so Shane tried to get me out on last
week and I missed him. I misread the situation. So
I gotta get him back this week, so I make
sure to get up there. I'm pretty sure this next
game will be dialed on it. He'll be ready to roll,
He'll get some height on that jump. But uh, I
think we both get a little pretty fired up when
when our offense is rolling like that.

Speaker 8 (33:37):
It's a starting center for the cold Tanner BORDERLINI with
us here on the Payless Slickers hot line, seven am
on a Monday. What is your Monday routine?

Speaker 7 (33:46):
I had it in now I'm about to get some treatment.
You know, he'll up whatever. You know, not feeling great,
but I think everything always feels a little better after
a win. But I'll get healed up, get a lift in,
hit some meetings, watching it, watch the film, break it down,
see what I can improve on, just personally going through
the next week, because I think you know, it's about
getting better week to week. See when we get improved

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upon every game, winner, lose, and then just enjoy the
rest of the day.

Speaker 4 (34:13):
Tanner, why do you think this offense is performing and
executing at such a high level right now? What's been
the key?

Speaker 7 (34:20):
I think it's just everyone doing their job. Right now.
We have eleven guys that know if I can do
my job, we have tremendous talents at all those other
positions where those ten other guys are going to do
some great things if I give them the opportunity to
and everyone buying in every week, every game plan. I
don't think there's a single week where guys are preparing different.
You know, there's routine consistencies, been at a premium, and

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I think guys just really being focused and wanting our
offense to keep excelling the way.

Speaker 9 (34:48):
It is so Tanner obviously as a center, you touched
the ball more than anybody else. How much more comfortable
do you feel this year being a full time starter
versus last year as a rookie just trying to make
sure that you, I don't know, I don't mess up
at the NFL level.

Speaker 7 (35:07):
I think, you know, you just kind of embraced that
this is like my position, my spot now, and I
think you just do. You do feel a little more
comfortable just you know, you're you're playing with those guys
in practice every day, You're getting all the reps with them,
You're you're gonna be the guy at that spot. So
I think that confidence is there. It's you're just more
comfortable just having stacked and had all those reps of

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those guys that are around you.

Speaker 8 (35:32):
Number sixty for the Colts. Tanner BORDERLINI with us here
on the Payless Slickers hot line seven to one. Start
here in this twenty twenty five season, Tanner, you shared
with us. I think it was on Zoom last week
about kind of what you witness and the Daniel Jones
Chanstiken relationship on a weekly basis for our audience that
maybe didn't hear that, what do you see from those
two Monday through Saturday? And I guess I point out

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Saturday because I believe you do sit behind those two
on road trips.

Speaker 7 (35:58):
As well, you know, just getting to see the way
they talk to each other, you know, how invested they
both aren't winning, how on the same page about the
game plan they are, Like on the plane, I'll beat
behind those two in the whole flight. You know, we're
in a four hour flight to LA. They're both throwing
through stuff, talking about, Hey, here's what I think we
can get on this situation, this play, if we get discoveraged.

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You know, here's what I think would be a good call,
you know, and I think it really shows once we
get the game time that they both know when this
play comes in, Here's what we're thinking, Here's what we
want to do, Here's what we want to achieve. And
I think that's a really important part of why this
offense has been the way it has.

Speaker 8 (36:34):
Who can eat the most in the offensive line room?

Speaker 7 (36:38):
Man, we got a lot of guys that are up there.
I would say Braiden. If you get Braiden on the
right day, he can he can demolish some food. He
has probably had the biggest breakfast I've ever seen in
my life. What is that? What is it?

Speaker 8 (36:53):
I assume it's plates plurally, but what does that look like?

Speaker 7 (36:57):
So he he'll have evan over easy eggs, seven pancakes,
and then uh, like the biggest bowl of fruit you've
ever seen. I'm talking like it'd be like another plate,
you know, piled highway fruit. I mean, it's unreal how
much he can put down.

Speaker 8 (37:16):
Is that daily or this game day?

Speaker 7 (37:20):
I mean, honestly, it's daily for breakfast. That's what he
knocks out. He said he's a seven over easy egg guy,
which I think is an insane amount of over easy eggs.
But I love Brandon, but he could put that down.

Speaker 9 (37:31):
Like no other Tanner aside from the dieting, I think
the seven pancakes.

Speaker 6 (37:38):
Yeah, I'm just like, how are we the same species?

Speaker 7 (37:41):
Right? You know?

Speaker 9 (37:43):
Two eggs over easy? Probably as much as I got,
you know, for for my uh you know, buck fifty frame.

Speaker 7 (37:49):
I'm with you on that. Two or three maybe seven's
that's a man's number. I guess.

Speaker 9 (37:55):
Tanner, Uh, speaking of beyond just I guess the dieting
expertise piece of your teammate, Uh, Tony Ferno Jr.

Speaker 6 (38:03):
Your offensive line coach. How much is he meant to
you and that room?

Speaker 9 (38:07):
Because from the sounds of it talking to you and others,
he'll love you up. But he also won't sugarcoat anything.

Speaker 7 (38:16):
No, he's been huge, and I think that's a great
way to do it. I feel like you always know
what he's telling you is true and it's what he
actually means. And I think it's a great thing for
a coach to have. And again, as a player, you
won't you it's not always going to be perfect. You
understand that, but if you take the coaching for what
it is, I think you can grow a lot from
it as a player, and it makes our group a

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lot better because I think we all see that the
same way, where look, we know we're not going to
be perfect. It might not always be what you want
to hear, but sometimes it's what you need to hear.
And he does a really great job but you know,
telling you what you need to do better, but loving
you up on the things you do well and then
just having us ready for games. He does a phenomenal job.

Speaker 6 (38:56):
Does he have an inside voice?

Speaker 7 (39:00):
Sometimes he also has an outside boy you got but
he finds that happy medium of you know, don't know
how to coach.

Speaker 8 (39:09):
He's got Tanner last one for me, and we really
appreciate your time here on this Monday morning. Do you
have a favorite Jonathan Taylor run from this season?

Speaker 7 (39:20):
I mean that eighty yard one was just pretty electric.
There there are so many great ones though that, like,
I mean, this is a really good problem to have. Uh,
you know, I really can't choose one. I think every
week there's one where I'm like, that was unbelievable. But
that's just the kind of runner he is. He gives
you something like that weekend.

Speaker 4 (39:37):
Week go, it's great to have you on this morning.
You're welcome anytime. Uh, try to keep up with the
pancakes and eggs though, I mean, you gotta gotta stay
big and stay strong, right, let's go, all right, buddy, thank.

Speaker 7 (39:48):
You appreciate Yeah, man, take care guys.

Speaker 4 (39:51):
All right there he is the center for the Indianapolis colts.
Uh Tanner Bordolini. I'm still I got a little bit
of indigestin hearing about that. That indigestion, man, that's a
lot of It's a lot of pancakes and eggs and
fruit all of one sitting. I don't know. I can't
deal with that. But that's a lot of fun. It's
got to be a blast blocking for Jonathan Taylor though, right, yeah,

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trying to think like.

Speaker 6 (40:13):
Have I eaten seven eggs this month?

Speaker 8 (40:15):
I think you're gonna say, it's got to be a
blast eating that. I just pray for the pipes over
there West fifty sixth Street, last somewhere man blasts happening
at some point. Oh wow, Yeah, I don't know how
I could handle a lot any of that. And Brad Smith, like,
I mean, James, there doesn't look like there's an ounce
of body fat.

Speaker 9 (40:32):
No, But honestly, talking to a lot of the offensive
linemen through the years of covering the NFL. Some of
them actually don't want to eat that much, but they
kind of have to to keep the weight on. So
it's always interesting if here from the ones who've retired
and they drop a lot of weight, because it's like
I don't have to like stay you know, at this
certain playing weight. But as Tanna pointed out, I'm sure

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Bradensmith doesn't mind when you're seven to one.

Speaker 8 (40:54):
And if you go back and you watch the most
early Taylor runs yesterday, honestly probably the those first couple drives, Yeah,
I mean for sixty five wide holes. Yeah, just and
there are a couple right at the middle, and I
think Bordelini I was glad they highlighted him on the screen.
To Warren CBS, I know, pointed him out on that play.

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There's a level of athleticism as a center, I want
to say, either tied or broke, like Jason Kelsey's NFL
combine record for like three cone or shuttle one of those.
And basically the thought was him coming out of Wisconsin,
was this is a super athletic center. Maybe you know,
needs to add a little bit more, maybe needs Britain
Smith's plate a little bit more in front of him.

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But I think you see that on that play for example,
or you watch him get to the second level or
pull or things like that. He's a very impressive talent.
And you know, and Ryan Kelly moving on, you have
to pass the torch at some positions. You can't just
pay everybody second, third, fourth contracts. It's not reality in
NFL finances. And they drafted him in the fourth round

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for a reason. And I think he's played really, really good.
And that old line in general. Eight games end of
the season, they've been intact for seven of them.

Speaker 4 (42:04):
That is a dream, a dream.

Speaker 8 (42:07):
And the Colts have gotten that so far.

Speaker 4 (42:08):
All right, Well, we're having a victory Monday for breakfast
to get here for the Indianapolis Colts, who improved a
seven and one. We'll be talking about that with you
in a moment. Phone lines are open at two three
nine ten seventy. Also, we'll check the fan text line
at two three nine ten seventy. Colts are seven and one,
highest scoring team in the NFL. We'll talk about it
next ninety three to five one O seven to five

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the Fan.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
This seised a fan morning show with kb JB and
Jeff Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:35):
One two three, four, five, seventy, there's seventy seven.

Speaker 4 (42:44):
They give us.

Speaker 3 (42:44):
The tailor cuts up a ball bearing to us right.
He said the ten, the five, he's gonna score. You
touchcown ptyhy shotgun stat for Jones looking left, He's gonna
take a shot and throws a laser towards the pylon
and that is eight cats for Michael Pittman Junior.

Speaker 5 (43:02):
There's a penalty on the play, but Pepman scored a.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
Touchdown as Pepman snared it in with one hand on
a twenty one yard absolute dark under center Jones. On
first down, they give it to Taylor left side. He's
in the twenty twenty five thirty thirty five down the
sideline forty fifty yard line scored going Tyner Ruban.

Speaker 8 (43:19):
Is that line.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
He's got a chance ted five touchdown on chuck the thin.

Speaker 4 (43:24):
Taylor takes it eighty yards to the house.

Speaker 3 (43:28):
That's third and thirteen. After the penalty. He left back's
the throw. He stands talking. It's in the rainbow downfield
for Alec Pearce.

Speaker 6 (43:36):
He got it, he got it, he got all.

Speaker 1 (43:39):
He got it.

Speaker 5 (43:40):
You want a truckmenus grab as he had a defender.

Speaker 6 (43:43):
Trade all over him, and he boxed them out.

Speaker 3 (43:46):
Like a basketball player. Shotgun step. He looks left, stands
in the pocket. Now he's flatched to the right side. Lookie,
he's got him.

Speaker 4 (43:52):
You a part of the truck cli and that is
a touchdown for the Bolt.

Speaker 5 (43:56):
This time it's just down for a score.

Speaker 3 (43:58):
Fourth rid zone trip today for the Colts. Lord jump
passed to Jonathan Taylor, cuts off a block. He's at
the ten, he's at the five. He's again touchdown. And
it's the fourth time this season Jonathan Taylor has three
touchdowns in a game.

Speaker 6 (44:13):
All right, let's just stay calm here.

Speaker 1 (44:15):
Don't get off seven seven seven.

Speaker 4 (44:24):
I mean, I'll get in the mood for you.

Speaker 3 (44:25):
I'll always get in the mood.

Speaker 4 (44:26):
I'll have one she's having, We'll have a lot more
of what everybody's having. If Jonathan Taylor is eating it,
or an offensive lineman is having seven pancakes, seven eggs,
and a big bowl of fruit, will take that too.
But the Colts, whatever they're doing, it's working. They are
seven and one, number one team in the NFL right now,

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number one scoring team. Another victory Monday for the Indianapolis Colts.
Good morning, Kevin Bowen. Good morning, James Boyd, Good morning,
Mike Mark, Dyke than Mike Mark, whatever, welcome into the program.

Speaker 6 (44:57):
Goodness, Holly Morgan.

Speaker 4 (44:59):
With this guy, I just know that he's still conflicted
over last night's Sunday Night.

Speaker 10 (45:04):
Now, No, I'm disgusted by Aaron Rodgers. The one time
I root for you and you can't get it done,
So I don't like you, sir.

Speaker 6 (45:10):
That makes change your name.

Speaker 8 (45:11):
Yesterday, that was a the Ravens needing a win at
one in five, and yeah the Colts are the bear.

Speaker 4 (45:20):
Yeah, it was not It was not great.

Speaker 10 (45:22):
Dereck Henry turned back to clock a little bit and
Caleb did not have a very good game. But yeah,
it was just one of those buzzsaw games where it's like, well,
I guess when you're that desperate for a win, you're
gonna pull out all the stops.

Speaker 8 (45:33):
So yeah, that was ugly.

Speaker 7 (45:35):
Man.

Speaker 4 (45:35):
I'm listening to that terrific open that you put together there,
and it's just what do you do if you're a
defense right now, Kevin Bowen, we know we have the
superstar in Jonathan Taylor, but you got Michael Pittman Jr.
You got Josh Downs, you got Alec Pierce, who made
another terrific play on a on a long pass yesterday.
It just seems Tyler Warren. We didn't mention he was
kind of quiet by his standards a little bit yesterday.

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But what do you do if you're a defense with that, you.

Speaker 8 (46:00):
Do yeah, hope, pray, uh yeah, yellow flags, drop snaps,
I don't know what. Yeah, it's it's surgical. The balance
to your point, I mean, that's that's what really really
is eye popping. Like I thought a halftime yesterday, I
was like, man, I feel like they could have given
Jonathan Taylor to the ball a little bit more. And
I know Shane Second is very pro throw to score,

(46:21):
you know, run to win. The balance of the first
half versus the second half is kind of indicated that
this season. But like they had seventeen points at halftime
and I'm sitting there like nitpicking, Jonathan Taylor should have
a few more carries. I mean, you double seventeen, that's
thirty four. I think you take thirty four weekend a
week out there. So yeah, just dominant and really in
that second quarter too, Like I sat there and thought

(46:42):
to myself, man, like the Colts offense actually had like
a few like back to Earth moments. You know, some
of the pressure was kind of getting to Daniel Jones.
One thing I do think, you know, just to mention
today on a Monday, there have been a few times
a season where we've seen Colts players develop some concussion
like symptoms on a Monday. Tavarious Ward comes to mind,
Josh Downs comes to mind. I think Alec Pierce maybe

(47:03):
was another one. So Dania Jones. That was a pretty
big hit head of the turf, and you know, I
try to keep an eye on him after that play.
It didn't look like he ever was really tended to
from a medical standpoint. It's just something to keep an
eye on today. If anything arises, Uh.

Speaker 4 (47:16):
Well, that would be the only thing to worry about today.

Speaker 6 (47:19):
Him and Tyler Warren.

Speaker 9 (47:20):
Tyler Warren had one where he caught the ball slammed
his head back off the turf. And I'm not saying,
oh my gosh, these guys have to be thrown out
of the game, and but it is something I think
worth asking, just asking Shane, hey, how did everybody come
through the game, because as you point out, those would
be significant developments and you can never be too you know,
cautious when it comes to the head and brain.

Speaker 8 (47:41):
James, you brought this up earlier about Jones, and I
sat there postgame thinking to myself about it. It's amazing
how he has raised his and I'll speak for myself,
he has raised his own standard of how I view him.
Like I walked away from Yet yesterday and you you

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said earlier career high in passer rating. I would not
have walked away from yesterday and thought that was a
career game from Daniel.

Speaker 6 (48:09):
That's what I'm saying, And I get, like, that's crazy.

Speaker 8 (48:11):
I get sometimes that passer rating number gets inflated by
like the shovel pass first sample I made it. But
it's one of those things where like in eight weeks
he has now elevated how I view him, and like
I had to walk out of Lukasol Stadium kind of
reminded myself, like going to the car, being like, hey,
I know the Jonathan Taylor conversation will dominate tomorrow, but
like when it comes time to talk to Daniel Jones,

(48:33):
like just don't take for granted that he just had
another game where no turnovers and yeah, in the second quarter,
did it get a hair leaky for a couple of
drives and you know, could he have maybe recognized the
free blitzer that you know did have that big hit
on him and you know, sure, but like at the
end of the day, it's still what seventy percent, two

(48:56):
hundred and eighty some yards whatever the final number was
again no turnovers for what the sixth time in eight
weeks this season. Like that is stuff. If you would
have told me that on August twenty seventh about Daniel Jones,
I would have said, you sign up for that in sharpie.
So just a credit to him for in two months
of this season, almost kind of re triggering my brain,

(49:18):
if you will, for how I view his own individual play.

Speaker 9 (49:22):
He's a special player and I I have eaten so
much Crow, I feel like on the show first with
I You and Illinois, and now I'm doing it again
with the quarterback because I never thought he could play
this as good for this long and I thought if
they were going to be even remotely close to a
record of seven and one, it will be the game
manager type of performances that we saw really when he's

(49:45):
with the Giants. And that's the scariest part to me,
is like every time we spoke to Shane Stiken, Chris
Baal or anybody else about why you believe Daniel Jones.
They're like, well, he played winning football. We saw him
leading the teams to the playoffs, but there were limitations
within that where they went I think what nine six
and one that year or something like that or nine
seven and one, and a lot of it had to

(50:08):
do with them starting hot and kind of playing like this,
I don't know, I want to say it's gimmicky offense,
but they started hot and then the NFL kind of
figured him out.

Speaker 8 (50:15):
Well, Jones's legs were a big part of that, right,
we really haven't seen that full throat, and I feel.

Speaker 9 (50:19):
Like towards the end of that twenty twenty two season
he got kind of figured out because of the legs stuff,
and he couldn't make some of these throws in A
grantite offensive line certainly helps, and you know, the talent
that receivers that the Colts have certainly helps. But he's
a different player, it seems like, where he's not this
dual threat quarterback like he was pegged to be in
New York. He's just a pocket passer who throws dimes,

(50:42):
who can also get you out of trouble with his legs,
which to me probably helps keep him fresher. I mean,
this is a guy who also has had a neck
injury in the past, the torn acl in the past,
and so if you don't have to run them, good
for you.

Speaker 6 (50:54):
You got the best running back in the league to
do that.

Speaker 4 (50:56):
Well. The other thing that's amazing is I watched Daniel Jones.
He's so mobi in the pocket. You see him avoiding
the rush, you see him spinning, you see him and
going to the outside, and he never looks panicked ever,
no matter what the pressure is, he does a nice
job of escaping most of the time, and he'll either
throw the ball away or he continues to look downfield,
but he never looks like he's getting rushed or panic. Kevin,

(51:17):
I thought, I find that amazing.

Speaker 8 (51:19):
Yeah, that's yeah, you know, I thought for the most
part all season long, he's just been really decisive, pretty
quick rhythm. Getting that second quarter was just a slight hiccup.
But then the third quarter the deep ball to Pierce.
You know, Matt Taylor points out on the highlight you
just heard there. Whatever I go to call it, you know,
he looks like a center calling Ford in the post
up or you know, boxing a guy out there, and

(51:40):
then and then the Josh Downs interception that as well. Again,
it's unbelievable what they're doing thirty eight to fourteen. And
Riley Leonard got plenty of reps yesterday and now it
does shift and you know, I know we'll get into
Pittsburgh here, and they got ran out of their own
building last tight in the second half. That was impressive
by Green Bay did after halftime. But I am I

(52:03):
think looking forward now to this back half of the schedule,
like you now, from an atmosphere standpoint, from a team standpoint,
it is going to rise in competition. And I think
the Colt I don't want that to mean like I
think the Colt's gonna wilt. I think the Colts can
handle that. But I think this is this would be
a little bit more of a truer. Okay, these are
some January type teams, but still to absolutely beat down

(52:26):
any NFL opponent is rare. Just to reiterate what I
feel like I've said almost every Monday show this season,
the Colts did not have a single twenty point win
in each of the last three years and through eight
weeks this season, they already have four of them. Wow,
four of them. Didn't have one in the last three
years and they already have four of them halfway through

(52:46):
the season.

Speaker 4 (52:47):
Man, you gotta love that, and you gotta love the
way that they're rolling right now. And as I said,
everybody's just doing their job. You can't you know aighty
Mitchell aside with no catches yesterday, Mark no catches? Yes, Oh,
do you want to do the update? Then well let's
get it out out of the way. Yes, go ahead,
all right, Adie Mitchell yesterday one target, no catches.

Speaker 8 (53:06):
I have to do the math still haven't. I didn't
know we're going to go to it already.

Speaker 10 (53:09):
And the meat catches this year he has eight catches,
I know, but I need to see what his average
needs to be to get eighty this year.

Speaker 6 (53:14):
I think it'll be a lot seven and a half.

Speaker 7 (53:16):
I was.

Speaker 4 (53:17):
I was encouraged to see him appear in the first
half yesterday, Kevin.

Speaker 8 (53:20):
Yeah, he actually played I'd say probably his most snaps
in a while there. I want to say it was
nine snaps.

Speaker 4 (53:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (53:28):
We discussed uh snap count for Riley Leonard and Rady Mitchell. Yes,
Leonard six Mitchell nine there, So I feel like there
was a target? Was there not a target to Ady Mitchell?

Speaker 4 (53:39):
One target?

Speaker 8 (53:40):
So I was thinking about you, Jeff.

Speaker 4 (53:42):
Yeah, I was thinking about me too. That's how that worked.
But the Colts went at another dominant performance yesterday thirty
eight to fourteen over the Titans. Again. You see Chainstiken
talking to the team in the locker room afterwards. I
don't care if Tennessee's a bad team. I know is

(54:02):
their division opponent. You win at home. You have to
take care of business in those football games. And the
Cults are doing that right now.

Speaker 8 (54:08):
It is amazing. Right now, we sit here here three
games into the Pacers season, eight games into the Colt season,
and the Pacers have more injuries in the Cults.

Speaker 6 (54:15):
Right now in one place football obviously, yes.

Speaker 8 (54:18):
One place football, and one has forty six guys playing
on game day and the other one has what maybe
twelve playing if that. It just shows how finny key.

Speaker 9 (54:27):
Sports can be, man, which is also why And I
was talking to Bob Kravis about this because I was
the same sort of story last week. He wrote a
story basically saying this offense is super Bowl caliber. Colt's
got to make a move defensively, and I think that
conversation gets louder, obviously with the trade deadline approaching next week.
But on top of that, this idea that you feel

(54:49):
like you got a shot and you don't want to
waste that because you don't know if you're gonna be
this healthy again going forward, or you're going to be
this good again, or the other afc S teams are
going to be this vulnerable again.

Speaker 6 (55:01):
So if you feel like you really are convicted in
this team, then I think you got to go for it.

Speaker 8 (55:07):
Is that a Marshall Mathers lyric in there? One shot,
one opportunity?

Speaker 6 (55:11):
Oh you know what I haven't talked about, but you
know my knees palms not sweaty, Kevin.

Speaker 8 (55:18):
Real quick and get it week for hearing Braden Smith's played.

Speaker 10 (55:21):
I'm getting some questions in Twitter, Kevin. So that the
Colts beat the Titans twice this year, what would that
be considered the sweet?

Speaker 4 (55:30):
Sweet?

Speaker 8 (55:31):
Is that a sweet?

Speaker 10 (55:34):
That's a listeners saying hey that was the two games
over the over the Titans' is like, better check yourself.

Speaker 8 (55:38):
Kevin doesn't think two games comparing a one hundred and
sixty two game MLB season to all and that now
we're deciphering what sports are. No, it's a sweep. That
is a sweet baby, two games sweep. I will say
this is going back to Pacer. He's got to give
himself a d. I'm thinking I will say this going

(55:59):
back to Pacer. On Saturday night for those that weren't watching,
I get you know whatever, you get caught up in
your Saturday or college football. I was watching that Pacers
Grizzlies game. Benedict Matherin was having He was on an
absolute heater oh in that third quarter, and not only
just the scoring heater, but he found Ben Sheppard for
a three in that stretch that, if I had a guess,

(56:21):
that made Rick Carlyle giddy.

Speaker 6 (56:24):
I tweeted about that play.

Speaker 8 (56:25):
I know he was giddy and Rick Carlile probably in
the same sentence very often, but James, that moment, Mathern
had scored I don't know, eight or ten in a row,
and at that point, not that Benedic Matheren needs a reminder.
But the light was neon green. He could have pulled
up from half court and that probably would have been fine.
He pump fakes a three, he drives and then he
kicks it out to Shepherd to play that Matherin probably

(56:47):
isn't making many times in his career, and bang, Shepherd
hits that three. And this is all as Bendick Matheren
is hurt. He had already suffered the toe injury. He
was playing through it there for a handful of minutes,
and that just to me he adds to it. And
again we can only react to three games to Pacer season.
For mathering it's what six or seven quarters. But he
had been playing awesome, I thought to start this season,

(57:09):
and same with Siakam. Siakam last night was unbelievable. And
now it's just it's impossible to talk about the Pacers
without immediately mentioning their injuries.

Speaker 9 (57:21):
Honestly, when I was watching that game, the thing that
kept me engage was just watching Bennig Matherin do his thing,
because he got the Pacers back end of that game, yeah,
and kind.

Speaker 6 (57:32):
Of figure it out.

Speaker 9 (57:33):
And boy, every time I see him just getting that
mode of like, all right, we're down a couple guys,
let me just go get mine, it's entertaining. And also
this year it's kind of warranted. So the fact that
he still made that play, Kevin to your point, while
he is on a heater, but the larger context being

(57:54):
I'm on a heater with none of my main guys
out here, I'm still gonna trust this guy in the corner.
That's he was a big play. And also he just
he was under control. I mean, I thought he It's
not like he didn't have an advantage. He already got
to the paint two feet in the paint. If you're
ben Atic Matherin, you're probably winning that. And to kick
it out there was showed his high IQ. But A'll
soold some maturity there as well. So yeah, man, I

(58:15):
think this is gonna be a year of silver linings
for this group that is now what zero to three
on the year, so rough start, and it doesn't look
like it's gonna get any release soon because of the injuries.

Speaker 8 (58:27):
Well that's the thing you just said, there a year
of it. That's the question I think I have right now.
Is it really gonna be eighty two nights of it?
Are we gonna be sitting here saying feel good? This
great effort? That is that gonna be the dominant storyline
for this Pacer season right now? Yes it is, But
The NBA season is obviously very very long. How long

(58:48):
has Andrew Numbard out for the shoulder? How long has
Benedic Matherin out for the toe injury?

Speaker 9 (58:53):
You know, I'll throw this quote at you that I
got from Rick Carlout after Game one they lost in
double overtime.

Speaker 6 (59:00):
He said, this group is grit, and grit is what
our makeup is going to have to be this year.

Speaker 9 (59:05):
There are gonna be a lot of challenges, and we
just got to be willing to take on these challenges
on a long term basis. There's not gonna be any
sugar pill or Pancea had looked that up. To solve
the challenges that are gonna be coming every night. We're
just gonna have to have an attitude of loving the
challenge of how difficult the NBA is when you're not whole.
Is that not like a coach who recognizes there might

(59:26):
be some nights this year where eh, we gave an
effort but we didn't get the result we wanted to
were probably deserved.

Speaker 8 (59:32):
And again my question is when does it shift? Does
it shift? Does it ever get to the point where, yes,
obviously Halliburn is not playing, but does it ever get
back to hey, you're now fully healthy with this group,
with this iteration, because the East is wide open, and
if there is a little bit of silver lining right
now with the Pacers, if you are going to have
the injury situation you have, I think it's best to

(59:53):
have it at this point when the schedule's brutal. Just
double whamy it. Get it all out of the way,
because I already thought this schedule was really difficult out
of the gate, and then try to kind of man
create a little bit of a run there. But there
are big picture questions that this franchise might have to
encounter if the injuries continue, and if the losing does continue.

(01:00:15):
Again we're three games into it. It's probably premature to
even entertain any of those thoughts right now, but if
it does, then those are real questions. You can't ignore.

Speaker 9 (01:00:22):
The Well, the one thing I will say is you
don't have you haven't had any injuries to your center
of rotation, and they are not good. So again, I
don't have to beat a dead horse here and say, oh,
Miles Herner was pretty good. We know that he's no
longer here. So with all of the injury factors, it's
kind of like what we've talked about with like the
cornerback room with the Colts. Oh, you'll probably get some

(01:00:43):
reinforcements internally there there are no reinforcements coming from that unit.
And don't I just don't see them getting to a
level where the Pacers can really really compete beyond just
scratching and clawn and possibly trying to get to you know,
forty wins on the year or something like that.

Speaker 4 (01:00:57):
Here's the starting lineup. You're going to see a lot
of this type of thing. This is last night's starting lineup,
and you're gonna see things like this all year for
this team. Pascal Siakam, you expect, right, aaron Ne Smith,
that was great, But after that, Isaiah Jackson, Jay Huff
and Ben Shepard. That was your starting five last night.

Speaker 8 (01:01:18):
Not moving, not moved by I'll go back to Saturday night.
I mean literally, in the first quarter of Game two,
the Indiana Pacers, not the Noblesville Boom, The Indiana Pacers
had a guard tandem of Taylor Peter and ray J
Dennis Game two of the NBA season. That's game that's
quarter four of Game eighty two. So that's reality.

Speaker 10 (01:01:40):
They sent out that injury report before the game last yesterday.
It's like, holy hell, it was just insane old Twitter.
Would have been three tweets that you needed. Yeah, I
feel like we needed one of those what.

Speaker 6 (01:01:50):
Are the like the scrolls like you just screw, like
you just throw.

Speaker 8 (01:01:53):
It out and it just hits the floor and rolls
and that that would have been the injury report. Saw
the words out like seven times.

Speaker 4 (01:01:59):
I'm like, good lord, it's gonna start rivaling at Cleveland
quarterback Jersey before we're too deep into the season here.
All right, Mark, let's get to the nitty gritty and
check things down very quickly. All right, good news for
the Indianapolis Colts. They are seven and one. They have
scored more points and then the other team in the
National Football League. And they had the season sweep Kevin

(01:02:22):
of the Tennessee Titans thirty eight to fourteen. The win
at home yesterday. They've won four games in a row.
Jonathan Taylor one hundred and fifty three yards rushing, two
touchdown runs, a touchdown reception, an eighty yard touchdown run
that was just a thing of beauty. Daniel Jones two
hundred and seventy two yards and three touchdowns, Michael Pittman,
junr At eight catches ninety five yards in a touchdown

(01:02:44):
and just another twenty four point beatdown. They're winning by
three touchdowns almost regularly now, James, it's crazy.

Speaker 9 (01:02:51):
They're the best offense in the NFL, and as the record,
sell is the best team in the NFL.

Speaker 4 (01:02:56):
All right, they got a little bit of a run
for their money in the division. Yesterday, the Houston Texans
have improved to three and four. They might be the
second best team. Jacksonville had the day off yesterday. Houston
beat the forty nine Ers by a score of twenty
six to fifteen. As they're starting to look more and
more like they're supposed to look. Also, late last night,
it was the Green Bay Packers of the Pittsburgh Steelers
thirty five twenty five. Tonight Monday Night Football, the Washington

(01:03:19):
Commanders take on the Kansas City Chiefs. You do not
miss a trick over there? Do you been waiting? Yeah?
Trading and waiting. We liked that one. Indiana Pacers lost
a tough one last night. We were talking about that
just a moment ago on our Pacers Playback Today, presented
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(01:03:42):
water needs in your home. But they were within one
possession less than a minute to go despite all those
injuries last night. Gritty was the word. That's kind of
what I was thinking, Kevin watching that.

Speaker 8 (01:03:53):
Yeah, obviously James went out. The center player has been really,
really poor. Watching the end of that game last night,
I did think Tony Bradley gave them some center minutes.
But they have thrown everything at all. James Wiseman didn't
play in the didn't play the little I think you
didn't play an the opener he started Game two. Yeah,
it's just it's crazy right now. Just how unfluid, if

(01:04:13):
that is even a word. The center rotation has been
so at Dallas coming up on Wednesday, they'll be home
for a few and then out west for a long
road trip.

Speaker 4 (01:04:22):
All right, So that's the NBA. One other note you
did point out to James. Austin Reeves scored fifty one
points for the Lakers last night.

Speaker 9 (01:04:30):
Yeah, I'm fascinated by anybody who pulls up fifty points
in any game, and I was a witnessed till one
of them in the season opener for the Pacers on
the wrong end of it.

Speaker 4 (01:04:38):
I guess yeah. Lakers won that game over the Sacramento
Kings last night, one twenty seven and one twenty Luka
Doncis did not play in that one. Indiana's still ranked
number two in the nation in college football after a
fifty six to six beatdown of UCLA. I guess Kurt
Signetti sold his team on the fact that Ucla comes
in here as a three and ozero team. Don't pay
attention to that first part of the year.

Speaker 9 (01:04:57):
Yah, honestly should have just told him, you know what
that team is. Illinois beat the brakes off of him
like you did the first time.

Speaker 4 (01:05:03):
This week's Indiana game against Maryland will actually be heard
on WIBC because we've got Pacers later on that night.
That one will start at three point thirty pm. Also, Purdue,
coming off another loss, will be at Michigan, the number
twenty one team in the country, and following a bye,
Kevin Notre Dame back at it on the road to
take on Boston College. They're still ranked number twelve right now.

Speaker 8 (01:05:22):
And we should mention one of the more brutal losses
I've seen perdue on Saturday chance to drive for the
game winning field goal. Ryan Brown, who I think you know,
probably deserves some at least the respect, hat tip for
the effort he was given, but he tries to catch
his own pass. He does and then fumbles right after

(01:05:43):
it Rutgers in field goal range right away they kick
the game winning field goal Perdue. Now ends the slate
with four of the tougher Big Ten games, so you
could be looking at a second straight winless Big Ten
season for Purdue.

Speaker 4 (01:05:59):
Major League base Later on the night, Game three of
the World Series starts at eight on Fox. It'll be
Max Sure's You're taking on Tyler Glasnow terrific first two games.
Had a chance to watch some of those over the weekend.
And basketball last night, Indiana and an exhibition beat Baylor
seventy six seventy four. Also over the weekend, Purdue lost
an exhibition to Kentucky seventy eight sixty five.

Speaker 8 (01:06:22):
Yeah, and again, I hate to get overly sentimental and
a little sappy here on this Monday morning at clinics.
I just heart, my heart just really hurts on this
Monday morning here for really my extended family out there.

Speaker 5 (01:06:43):
It's a great night to be a tiger.

Speaker 8 (01:06:46):
I'm here with my family, Brian Kelly in the spelling
If you're in a Baton Rouge Elementary school and you're
in the spelling bee, and they said family mark for
you know grade I don't know grade two. I'm still
convinced there's an H in there somewhere my family, an
H A U maybe an A. To get us back

(01:07:06):
into the second part of that.

Speaker 4 (01:07:07):
Yeah, how much is he getting to go away?

Speaker 7 (01:07:10):
Though?

Speaker 8 (01:07:10):
Fifty four million? Which, if you guys want to pony up,
I will happily kick the old dusty trail. Saul Ross Dellinger,
great college football writer. I thought he wrote that during
the game Saturday night which ls you had a halftime
lead over tex A and M that they were going
around the suits and death Valley and asking, hey, how

(01:07:32):
can we pull up the buyout money? Is there anything
better than college sports? It was like Catholic churches passing
the plate. Let's just pass the basket around. Fifty to
fifty raffle goes towards college. Kelly's buyout.

Speaker 6 (01:07:44):
Ten percent got to go towards this guy getting out
of here.

Speaker 8 (01:07:48):
I love the SEC and I love when Brian Kelly loses.
He sucks. We need that one guy.

Speaker 10 (01:07:52):
Did you see the preacher that went viral for like
this lady gave out twelve hundred dollars and he's like, no, no, no,
we need that guy giving the Brian kelly By you
only gave one point two million.

Speaker 9 (01:08:03):
Yeah, he asked for you or something like that, and
she only gave top hunter and he looked at her
in disgust, and I was like, whatever turns that is?
I don't know if y'all gon't see the prohy gate.

Speaker 4 (01:08:14):
All right, the greatest of all time at least of
the week coming your way next on ninety three five
and one seven. Good morning, and welcome into the Fan
Morning Show. And another victory Monday for the Indianapolis Colts.
A lot of good things going on. And again I
know the Pacers lost last night, but I thought a
very gutty performance. But just just a lot going on
and we're getting down to the nitty gritty too, Kevin.

(01:08:35):
In high school football, just about a month left in
the season, so things starting to as far as sectionals
and everything like that, things are starting to come together
there too.

Speaker 8 (01:08:45):
Halloween Friday nights for sectional play with the big schools
joining the smaller schools after last week, so early weather
I think looks decent, which Mark dyked, and I feel
like it has been awful in recent Halloween I remember correctly,
I'm seeing fifty seven that's doable and a small precipitation chance. Yeah,
we'll take that.

Speaker 10 (01:09:05):
I've had Halloween's Whether can you unzip your jacket? Who
are you supposed to be? I'm supposed to be Superman?

Speaker 8 (01:09:10):
Like, oh, okay, I couldn't tell because you have the jacket.
It's been awful. Yeah, I don't blame them.

Speaker 9 (01:09:14):
No, it gets cold sometimes, especially dealing with kids, is like, nah,
I can't risk it.

Speaker 6 (01:09:18):
You're an adult. You can do what you want as
a kid. Put that coat on now.

Speaker 4 (01:09:22):
You don't have to worry about the trick or treaters
because you're in an apartment building.

Speaker 7 (01:09:25):
Right.

Speaker 6 (01:09:25):
Yeah, no, I'm gonna work with that at all.

Speaker 8 (01:09:27):
James is dropping eggs from his window.

Speaker 6 (01:09:29):
Get off my streets where somebody would try to get something.

Speaker 4 (01:09:35):
All right, it's time once again for our goats of
the week.

Speaker 1 (01:09:38):
Good bad.

Speaker 4 (01:09:39):
Otherwise Mark Dyke didn't kick it off, who's the goat?

Speaker 1 (01:09:42):
I'd go with you all that.

Speaker 3 (01:09:44):
I was the greatest of all time, Or here's Michael
at the filine I.

Speaker 1 (01:09:47):
Shot on the go, or goat this guy sucks of
the week.

Speaker 4 (01:10:09):
All right, we'll go to James Boyd to kick things
off today. You want to go positive negative? Where do
you want to start today? What's on your mind? What
do you have to get off your chest?

Speaker 6 (01:10:18):
I just gotta ask three questions in ten seconds. All right,
let's do it.

Speaker 9 (01:10:21):
I think my good goat of the week will be
Vanderbilt sophomore Tyler Wang I hope saying correctly. He was
the kid on college game day who booted the field
goal to win five hundred thousand dollars, and I thought
his one his kick was amazing. I was gonna get
that guy on somebody's college team immediately. And then secondly,

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the celebration afterwards, him doing the Pat McAfee celebration, running
around to the crowd, the confidence in which he took
the kick.

Speaker 8 (01:10:51):
Oh, it's theater. I love watching that every Saturday. It
is great TV.

Speaker 9 (01:10:56):
I think that is the best thing Pat McAfee does
from a media standpoint. A lot about the guy because
he's built kind of an empire for himself.

Speaker 4 (01:11:03):
It was fun to watch because you're right, he unloaded
on that kick, and he looked like he never had
a He was not nervous or worried or.

Speaker 6 (01:11:10):
Ound hairfoot, He didn't even have a shit to go.

Speaker 4 (01:11:13):
Yeah, that was that was fun to watch, all right,
Mark dyked in your goat of the week.

Speaker 10 (01:11:17):
My good goat, which I probably wouldn't have said a
week ago given everything that transpired, was Justin Fields got
their first win of the season. He was outstanding. Yes,
they come from behind victory over the Cincinnati Bengals twenty
one to thirty two for two hundred and forty four
yards and a touchdown through the air. Also added thirty
one on the ground. Justin Fields was spectacular yesterday.

Speaker 8 (01:11:38):
Very nice Mark on that one. Sounded like a very
entertaining game as well, in a week where we didn't
have many of those.

Speaker 9 (01:11:43):
This was after his owner trash down by the way,
right down and he said the owner is just outside noise.

Speaker 4 (01:11:50):
Yes, I loved that.

Speaker 8 (01:11:51):
A lot of debate on MVP this that, uh, maybe
we can get into that a little bit later. Like
to me, the best player in the NFL plays for
the Cleveland Browns.

Speaker 4 (01:12:03):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 8 (01:12:04):
Yeah, Miles Garrett had five sacks. Yesterday in a twenty
point loss. It is unbelievable that the guy that's probably
been the best player in the NFL for the last whatever,
I don't know, a handful of years continues to have
to live in freaking Cleveland and play for the Browns.

Speaker 9 (01:12:24):
No, no, that's not like he's a victim. Now he's
signing those contracts. He signed an extension there. He wanted
out until they gave him a big bag of money.

Speaker 8 (01:12:31):
And he was back in. He leads the league in sacks,
five of them yesterday, and he has a twenty point loss.
He's the best player I saw in social media.

Speaker 10 (01:12:41):
They had the it was like the picture of the
Ferrari under the sunshade and like, oh yeah, Miles Garrett
on the Browns. I'm like, yeah, that's exactly right.

Speaker 8 (01:12:48):
Yeah. But he's chosen his just to be there, so whatever, yep.

Speaker 7 (01:12:52):
I like that.

Speaker 4 (01:12:53):
I'm going to stay local. I was on an airplane
for a lot of yesterday. You know, at the beginning
of the Pacers game, I was. I had internet though,
so I was able to pop around and look at
some things and watch the Colts game. But the broadcast
I got for the Minnesota Timberwolves game, Michael Grady. Every
time I turn around now Michael's on Amazon, Michael's doing
the Minnesota Timberwolves, and our homegrown guy from here in

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Indianapolis and the fan. It is so fun for me
to just watch his career blossom and take off and
do the things that he's doing. I was even talking.
I had a chance to catch up with Adam Amen,
who did the Panthers game show, because I started the
day in the press box down in Carolina, and Adam
is like, hey, do you know Michael Grady? And we
started talking. I just I love seeing Michael and guys

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from Indianapolis develop, and he is just having a great career.

Speaker 8 (01:13:38):
And I thought, which is no surprise knowing Michael Grady
and how much he holds his roots in high regard.
I believe I saw the Timberwolves gave Mark Boyle a
specific shout out during their broadcast, and so I assume
Michael Grady was a big spearheader in that. So I
believe they put boil on camera there and acknowledge, what

(01:13:58):
is this year thirty eight? Is that right for Mark Boyle?
There so no surprise knowing ho who Michael Grady is
and how much he appreciates how he's worked his way
up in the business.

Speaker 4 (01:14:07):
It's just so fun to watch, so proud of just
even having been able to work with him for a
few minutes. Go ahead there.

Speaker 6 (01:14:13):
So my bad goat of the week would have to be.

Speaker 9 (01:14:17):
I can't say the mafia because they're always bad, right,
but the people who got involved with the mafia, one
being Chauncey Billups, the Hall of Fame point guard, who
was taking into federal custody because of an illegal gambling
ring or poker gambling nights Slash event. So yeah, I
would say him. Also, in conjunction with Terry Roseier and

(01:14:40):
Damon Jones, are the three big names that came out
of those federal investigations into the NBA and gambling and
things that are just not legal. So bad bad goats
all of them. Damon Jones, he made twenty two million
dollars in your career. I want to say, Terry Roger,
you've made a hundred sixty million dollars in your career.
See if you made a one hundred dollars in your career,

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why are any of you involved in any of this?
If these allegations are true, that would be one obviously
very bad for the league, but secondly very stupid for
everyone involved.

Speaker 4 (01:15:13):
Couldn't agree more.

Speaker 10 (01:15:13):
Mark Netflix is like foaming at the mouth, like I
can't wait to make a documentary on this, because that's
exactly what it sounds like a James vond movie.

Speaker 9 (01:15:21):
It's on all the details, or they're not to say
that with a couple of you know, cameras that can
get in between the prison bars, because that's where some
of this stuff is going ahead.

Speaker 4 (01:15:28):
They're gonna use the phrases mister big shot and scary
terry throughout the entire documentary.

Speaker 10 (01:15:32):
I'll keep my lower kse goat pretty easy since I've
mentioned multiple times Aaron Rodgers kissed my ass like I
was supposed to. I don't like you at all, and
then I root for you and you got your ass
kicked by the packers on national television. Stick it man,
like I'm sick of you already, and the fact that
I even like tied my wagon to you, disgusting, horrible performance.
Get out of here, Colts, I help you wax the floor,

(01:15:55):
then deforce Buckner. Hope Knock if you. Buck is playing
a dozen times on Sunday, so they pays after.

Speaker 8 (01:16:01):
Every Buckner sacked. Did I miss this?

Speaker 10 (01:16:03):
I don't know they should though, when it's finicky, if
you buck Buckner, I would.

Speaker 9 (01:16:08):
So knock if you buck and then go DJ for
Daniel Jones. I need, I need both of those offense
defense balance. I'd call it again, Colet.

Speaker 8 (01:16:15):
Give me a call motivational speech for free teot out
during the game Humans the side of deforce. Buckner should
not be able to move like that. That was incredible
the sack you had there late in that game.

Speaker 4 (01:16:24):
Mark Dyton and I.

Speaker 8 (01:16:25):
I've always appreciated a lot of things about Mark, but
one of the things that I truly truly appreciate is
how I feel about Brian Kelly he feels about Aaron Rodgers,
and it probably goes to show you a little bit
of how we're wired as human beings, which maybe isn't
the biggest compliment Mark, or how we're wired of sports fans.

(01:16:46):
But I must say watching that on Saturday night, it
is sickening how great of a feeling my body gets
when I'm watching a Brian Kelly hate loss. And Mark,
I'm sure it's the same way you feel watching an
Aaron Rodgers hate loss. It is pathetic that I literally
might have more endorphins in my body happy about that

(01:17:08):
than I do when Marcus Freeman's doing the other thing. Yeah, yeah,
it's almost is the same feelings as good as of me.

Speaker 4 (01:17:16):
It's a shame.

Speaker 8 (01:17:17):
But obviously my negative go to the week is Brian
Kelly thoughts teasing peace to his.

Speaker 5 (01:17:23):
I'm here with my family.

Speaker 8 (01:17:27):
Your family is going to Costa Rica for a while,
not for long?

Speaker 4 (01:17:30):
Does Brian Kelly coach again?

Speaker 7 (01:17:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:17:33):
I think.

Speaker 8 (01:17:35):
I am fascinated to see where Brian Kelly goes. The
resume is very very and who else he hires.

Speaker 9 (01:17:42):
Yeah, that's true. But I do think it's enough the
opportunity to though, because all the openings right now.

Speaker 8 (01:17:46):
LS used the best job. Is it not available?

Speaker 4 (01:17:49):
Would you not hire Brian Kelly? That's my thought. My
first thought was that, I mean, Brian Kelly's got a
great resume.

Speaker 6 (01:17:55):
He'll he'll land on his feet somewhere to make more money.
Man for more potential buyouts.

Speaker 8 (01:18:00):
You do a Pennsylvania accent? Can you do that?

Speaker 4 (01:18:02):
Is there one shows up? I'm gonna go with the guys.

Speaker 8 (01:18:05):
Hell my, they do col Miney only in West Virginia.

Speaker 6 (01:18:11):
What's the turn like a little suit, sit on his
like cheeks or something.

Speaker 8 (01:18:16):
I was down in the mines. Probably shouldn't impersonate any
other former Penn State coaches.

Speaker 4 (01:18:22):
Probably not. I'm gonna go with the guy that hired
and fired him, Scott Woodward, who also is the guy
responsible for giving Jumbo Fisher a seventy six point eight
million dollar buyout. At some point, when do people say, hey,
every time you hire a guy, it doesn't work out
and we end up being tens of millions of dollars
behind by the very end. How does that work out?

Speaker 8 (01:18:43):
I want LSU to bring coach Obeck call me too
that that would be beautiful or gern back to Baton Rouge.

Speaker 4 (01:18:51):
You wouldn't know what he said at his press conference though.
That's the best part of it.

Speaker 7 (01:18:56):
All.

Speaker 4 (01:18:56):
Right, coming up in a little while, we will have
your headlines after the co come up with another impressive
victory over the weekend. We'll do that. Take some of
your phone calls and text at two three nine ten
seventy it's another victory Monday on the Fan Morning Show
ninety three five and one O seven five The.

Speaker 8 (01:19:10):
Fan, let's coach oh.

Speaker 4 (01:19:14):
Off, Good morning, I hope you had a terrific weekend
all the way around. If you like IU football and
the coach, you probably had a great weekend. Things looking
up that way.

Speaker 10 (01:19:24):
And if you hate Brian Kelly had a great weekend
as well, as we found out with Kevin today.

Speaker 4 (01:19:28):
Four million dollars. Though I don't feel too bad for him. You're, uh,
you're struggling a little bit with the homeowner thing these days,
aren't you. Your weekend was not so great?

Speaker 10 (01:19:36):
Yeah, I was just mentioning off air that, uh was
just supposed to have a night. We had a very
busy Friday and Saturday went to Headless Horsemen out of
Connor Prairie, went to Stucky Farms, did a couple of
trunk retreats, had very busy weekends. I said, okay, we
can do all that. Sunday, just gonna take it easy,
not do anything. So head breakfast, cook pancakes for everybody.
So let me do a load of laundry before the

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first late of games starts here. And about halfway through
the uh, the cycle it just stopped on spin.

Speaker 8 (01:20:05):
It's like, Okay, did get jammed or something like that. Nope, nope, nope,
motor went out. It's done.

Speaker 10 (01:20:09):
So had to grab some loaws buckets and dig out
all these all the water that was still in the.

Speaker 8 (01:20:16):
Uh, the washer and all that stuff. And then it
sounds like the.

Speaker 9 (01:20:19):
Bears dump it out. Yell, I got a store for
you that probably beats you when it comes to the
washing machine or dryer going out. This is a true story.
This is why I say I need better parents. So
the dryer went out in our house. And I think
I might have been at school or practice or a
game or something, and I had done laundry, and so

(01:20:42):
I had put my clothes in the dryer and left
them in there and then hit the button or whatever.
Went to school or whatever, and meanwhile the dryer went out.
So my parents are trying to be proactive. They got
a new dryer and had to deliver it, but they
had to get the old dryer taken out of the house.
They let them take the dryer without looking in it,

(01:21:06):
and my clothes were.

Speaker 6 (01:21:07):
Still in it. Now, mind you, I never knew that
the thing even went out. Who he just Jesse boy,
Laurena boy. They're a tandem. They're a team, both of them.
You're in this together. I come home from school.

Speaker 9 (01:21:23):
Whatever we got new dryer. I'm okay, cool, where's my clothes?
And they're like, what clothes?

Speaker 6 (01:21:27):
And I'm like, you didn't look in the dryer before
you gave it away.

Speaker 9 (01:21:32):
So yeah, my mom had give a phone with like
the company and they had to give me if they
were only went like a landfill. So I got my
clothes back. It took like, you know, eleven days business
days that is, and my parents had forever. I'm telling y'all,
I didn't get the right type of nepotism. All I
got was just pain and strife.

Speaker 4 (01:21:52):
How was your wee?

Speaker 7 (01:21:54):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (01:21:54):
Yeah, I hate it was your laundry. I hate to
throw you never experienced.

Speaker 9 (01:21:58):
That, but I will sile thing being able to stick
it to your parents when you're like fifteen and just
tell them, like, you all disappoint me.

Speaker 6 (01:22:06):
This is all your fault, not mine. You're not mad,
I'm disappointed exactly.

Speaker 8 (01:22:09):
We could turn around.

Speaker 9 (01:22:10):
I did not let them live that down for a
long time. My mom was so she was so like
disappointed and like upset about that. My Dad's just like, boy,
you'll be I we'll get them back.

Speaker 8 (01:22:19):
A broken garage door at the bowt in hustle, Oh
my god, rolling. I was like, yeah, should we just
man you know, I'll probably just manually shut it, Mads,
and then I'll open it up in the morning for
I go to or She's like, nothing in here's very important.
Let's just keep it open. So you want to rob
our garage, come on over, garage, sail everything. You get

(01:22:42):
a washing machine, I'll get our garages.

Speaker 4 (01:22:44):
You know what I was telling?

Speaker 8 (01:22:45):
How to the Braiden Smith menu?

Speaker 4 (01:22:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:22:47):
Okay. So we had Tanner border LANDI on the show
earlier Colt Center. Yeah, I asked him, Okay, who eats
some mosts in the old line room. He shared Braiden
Smith uh plate of breakfast plates plural seven over easy, eggs,
seven pancakes, and quoting him the biggest bowl of fruit
you've ever seen. Out of those three, if we isolated those,

(01:23:08):
the eggs and pancakes are the biggest bowl of fruit
you've ever seen. Which one could you not handle? I
think it's probably eggs. I got a fast metabolism, so
I feel like eggs gonna mess me up.

Speaker 4 (01:23:21):
Seven pancakesans I feel like I'd have a Michelin tire
in my stomach.

Speaker 8 (01:23:28):
The pancakes, you're not climbing off the ground.

Speaker 9 (01:23:30):
But I feel like, well, you know, we're on the airway,
so I don't want to be too grad but I
find the eggs is just gonna mess me up. Bro,
I'm telling you there's a reason why I don't eat
like beans.

Speaker 8 (01:23:41):
Sounds like a bombs going off.

Speaker 4 (01:23:43):
You get enough protein in your life?

Speaker 6 (01:23:46):
Yes, I think?

Speaker 9 (01:23:47):
I mean I don't the eggs are protein. Man about proteins.
A couple of wits in high school. I eat whatever
you know Donald Nuggets has in it, man, seven pancakes,
So like, I I ate two yesterdnight. I was like,
that's enough. Like a little four inch ones, I'm not.
I can't imagine seven full size ones.

Speaker 8 (01:24:05):
I can, that's sure. I mean, like, if you go
to a breakfast place and they give you like three,
I'm like, I don't need three, man, Like, just give
me one. Just bring to go box now, Yeah, just
give me one.

Speaker 4 (01:24:18):
Shout out to Braden Smith up on Sunday for It's
the Fan Morning Show. Take some of your phone calls.
We'll get to headlines coming up just a moment as well.
After another terrific week of football, here at ninety three
five and one, I'm seven to five of the fan. Ah,
you gotta love it. Another win, another day, another thirty
eight points to just keep rolling and rolling and rolling.

(01:24:39):
The Indianapolis cults on fire. They are seven and one.
I am here for all of that. I'm here for
all of Indiana. Rolling over UCLA fifty six to six.
Another victory Monday. That's how we roll here at ninety
three five and when I was seven to five of
the fan. And you know, you're gonna have to start
finding new ways to write this up every every Sunday
night for the Monday morning, folks. You got to find

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new ways to talk about just what this offense is
doing all the time.

Speaker 8 (01:25:03):
Yeah, I find myself struggling in that area. Frankly, the
cursor is looking back at me. I'm like, wait, is
this what I said last Sunday? Is this is what
I said the Sunday before? So another week, another ass
kicking by the Colts and pretty much the same song
and dance. Offensively, you know, even when Tennessee kind of
drove it, Earl, You're like, the Colts are gonna win
this game because they just answer every time, even if

(01:25:24):
their defense is a little leaky. It's like, oh, Yeah,
they're gonna be fine. Yeah, Jonathan Taylor's gonna do that,
do this, They're gonna spread it around offensively. Michael Pittman
junr I was a hell of a cash one of
the best I've seen from a Colts player and quite
some time. So it's rare for NFL teams to create
walk on moments, and the Colts have been able to

(01:25:44):
do that four times already in eight weeks. And jam
means you empty your bench, that means you play everybody.
That doesn't happen. But Shane Syke and James said a
few weeks back, it's awkward when he has to do
that in a game. You know, NFL coaches aren't wired
that way, don't. You don't go into a game with
the opponent and the opposing sideline thinking, hey, you know,

(01:26:05):
if we get to the fourth quarter and it's a blowout,
this is how I want to handle that. You don't
think about that, And yet the Colts have had four
of those games this season.

Speaker 9 (01:26:15):
I would agree, certainly, And I think one of the
funnier takeaways I had in the locker room was talking
to Pittman, because obviously that crazy touchdown Cassidy had was
a play that everyone was talking about, and I told him, Hey,
by the way, you probably already know this, and I'm
sure he does. Every player who says they don't is
a liar. But six touchdowns this year tied your season

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high and you're only.

Speaker 6 (01:26:41):
In Week eight.

Speaker 9 (01:26:42):
And he's like, uh, yeah, I gotta make the plays
because man, I don't know I'm gonna get the ball again.

Speaker 6 (01:26:49):
Because of how their offense is.

Speaker 9 (01:26:51):
So he's like, man, if you missed your opportunity, good
luck getting the next one. Not in a way of like,
your offense is so incompetent that you don't have a
quarterback who can get it to you. But no, if
I don't catch that, that means on the next play
it'll be Tyler Warren in the end zone or Josh down.
So he's like, I got to make these plays count.
So in a way, I think the volume that Pittman

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is used to as the the facto number one receiver
for the Colts might not be what he wants. But
at the same time, it's hard to argue with the
production when you do get the ball and he's made
the players count. And so I didn't get a chance
to ask him by the slide there. It was kind
of like he was giving mercy to the Titans. I

(01:27:33):
got enough yards, I'll just give one up here. And
also keep in mind though one headed catch he had
the end zone came after he kind of made a
crazy catch before that that was self inflicted. He dropped
the ball over the middle, or it was going to
be a drop pops in the air. Balls just luckily
in his area and he goes and grabs it. Yeah,
and so like to his point, if you don't make

(01:27:55):
the play, you're not getting the ball.

Speaker 6 (01:27:57):
Again, you know, as quickly as perhaps you want. Because
there's so many more.

Speaker 4 (01:28:00):
Yeah, it's a lot of fun to watch, and the
rest of the country is starting to take notice. We've
had a few people on the text line this morning,
Kevin that want to know when do they start flexing
Colts games? When do they start flexing to have Colts
games on primetime?

Speaker 8 (01:28:13):
Okay, so we know the next two will not be obviously,
Sunday will be one o'clock, that's already been decided. Next week,
it's a week from Sunday they'll be in Berlin, So
you're in the nine thirty slot there. Then you go
on the bye week. My question with Kansas City. You're
at Kansas City out of the bye. Have the Chiefs
already been slotted into their primetime games? Aren't you only
allowed to have five? Is not an NFL rule, believe,

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so I would assume Kansas City was preseason, was already
slotted into the five. That is a one o'clocker. So
I'd have to look a little bit closer at the schedule.
You know, at Jacksonville, if they can get their act
together after the buye, I mean that might be one
you know, Seattle a little bit later in the season.
Granted that's already in the four o'clock window, So yeah,

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I mean you could certainly be having some primetime games.
Where do you guys stand on the MVP award? Do
you believe it is the acronym most Valuable Player or
do you believe it is the best player? Because I
think those are two different things. I think in this

(01:29:18):
case for the Colts, it's both. No no, no, no no.
The NFL award you are handing out the NFL award,
is it the ACRONYMI side, is it the most valuable player?

Speaker 4 (01:29:28):
It is most valuable?

Speaker 8 (01:29:29):
Because if it's most valuable, then I understand why quarterbacks
win it seemingly every year. If the Coults are playing
next week, would they have a better chance to win
a game with Amir Abdula starting a running back or
Riley Leonard is starting a quarterback?

Speaker 6 (01:29:45):
Amir?

Speaker 8 (01:29:46):
Right, No, I understood, That's where the acronym comes into play.
But I don't like that because then it's a quarterback award.

Speaker 4 (01:29:54):
Yeah, they should change it to most outstanding.

Speaker 8 (01:29:57):
Right, Like, to me, I am best player, and I
think if you make it the best player, then Jonathan
Taylor deserves to be right up there with anybody else
in the league as the best player in the NFL
this season. The problem is, that's just not how these vote.
These awards vote. James you mentioned in your story yesterday,
Adrian Peterson the last one, I mean, like twelve. Are

(01:30:19):
you telling me Derek Henry didn't deserve to win it
between now and then? Or Sakwon Barkley. I mean, some
of these guys have had incredible years, so uh that
to me, I think it was difficult the MVP debate.

Speaker 9 (01:30:29):
Here's my other question. Then, would it then be just
the default to an offensive player award anyway? Because you
can't win it. If you're a defensive guy, you're the
best player in the league. You just called Miles Gart
best play in the league. Now, granted his team is terrible,
but if you're a great defensive player on a great team,
you're not winning MVP. But I still would in the
realistic terms, I would still lean towards best. Probably the

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best offensive players is the MVP. To me, that that's
how I would lean. And I also think that the
sport will be better off if you do have a
bit more of variety when it comes to the MVP.

Speaker 8 (01:31:03):
To degree, I would agree, And that's why I was
so happy last year the Heisman went to Travis Hunter.
I was like, thank you, he is the best player
in college football. Too often, and look at the Heisman
odds right now. Too often it's just are you a
quarterback that can walk and chew gum on a top
ten team? Yeah, that's pretty much what the odds. I'm like,
Has anyone watched Jeremiah Love play football for Notre Dame?

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Has anyone watched Elijah Surat for Indiana?

Speaker 7 (01:31:27):
Like?

Speaker 4 (01:31:28):
These are studs, and so.

Speaker 8 (01:31:31):
That I think is a debate that I would have
when it comes to the MVP, best player, et cetera,
et cetera. Yeah, if you want to go strictly off
the acronym, it's hard not to go quarterback. And probably
right now, I don't know where the I don't know
what the odds have, but I would say Drake May
would probably be very high on that list, if not
all the way up there. But if you want to

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go best overall player number twenty eight for the Colts,
Drake May has the third best MVP odds at the moment.
Who's want to I'll give you a guess. Why jong
Have they really had that that guy? I haven't been
paying that much Atten, I mean, have they had like
great years? Or is this just they were on the
magazine at the start of the season so they're still

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in the magazine. Think it's a bit of you know,
been there, done that, because Drake May, bile accounts, has
had an unbelievable season, right.

Speaker 4 (01:32:18):
Yeah, I got New England going from A the.

Speaker 5 (01:32:24):
Three.

Speaker 6 (01:32:25):
But he's got fourteen touchdowns, two interceptions, Like.

Speaker 8 (01:32:28):
Yeah, five MVP right now are Mahomes, Allen Drake May,
Matt Stafford and Daniel Jones. See my thing is just
like again, how do you not get another non quarterback
up there, like, how is Taylor not up there? But
this comes back to the criteria. It goes back to
what do we have in the NFL comeback Player of

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the Year.

Speaker 10 (01:32:50):
Jonathan Taylor is the first non quarterback on there and
he's the ninth best odds.

Speaker 8 (01:32:55):
Yeah, which is stupid, idiotic. And this goes back to
our debate we had, Jeff, I think you might have
been out. Maybe James is out, but I wanted to
make the amendment to the NFL for a season indinged awards.
We should have to talk about this comeback Player of
the year all injury based.

Speaker 4 (01:33:12):
Yes, not because you were gone somewhere.

Speaker 8 (01:33:15):
You should have the most improved player, like the NBA does. Yes,
the NBA does the most and most improved can be whatever.
Daniel Jones, Well.

Speaker 6 (01:33:23):
Here's my thing with that.

Speaker 9 (01:33:24):
Most improved typically means you're like a player who was
kind of a nobody before and you became something. Dane
Jones should not win Most improved when he was a
starting quarterback and let a teams of.

Speaker 6 (01:33:38):
The playoffs before. He can't win Most improved Player.

Speaker 8 (01:33:41):
It's a roller coaster ride the NFL life when you're
a giant. You can always win. Most improved could still win.

Speaker 1 (01:33:48):
It fair enough.

Speaker 6 (01:33:49):
But that's my only push back to that. It's like,
did we just give it. You had three bad years?
Oh he was good again for a year, Like, I
don't know.

Speaker 8 (01:33:55):
Yeah, again, if we're going to go off of strictly
the acron of most Valuable player, then the hypothetical I
threw out there of you're playing the Steelers on Sunday
with a Mira Abdullah or Riley Leonard, You're picking a
Mira Abdullah ten times out of ten. That's just the
reality of how a quarterback work a thousand percent.

Speaker 4 (01:34:15):
And they also go back to a conversation I heard
Peyton Manning having one time too when they were talking
about those great Colts teams and the offense, and he goes, Honestly,
the thing that made our offense work was the running
game and edge. Everything else came off of that. And
I just thought I always thought that that was an
interesting perspective when you had the great receivers that they

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had and you had the multiple time MVP, that quarterback
is good.

Speaker 8 (01:34:40):
But I think I'd be taking Dominique roads starting for
me over Mark Rippin or whoever but his.

Speaker 4 (01:34:46):
Point was having that explosive running back and the ability
to make the running game go is what said in
his mindset everything else up and Rent.

Speaker 9 (01:34:55):
Mean, yeah, Peyton Manning was a five time league MVP
right before tild Yeah he's that's called being a great leader.

Speaker 10 (01:35:02):
I can say you're a liar quick sidebar. By the way,
So we were talking about Colts Chiefs potentially getting flexed.
I mean it's not impossible they would have to flex
another Chiefs game out of primetime though, But you're supposed
to supposed to have six maximum primetime games six the
Chiefs have seven, and they have actually eight standalone games
because they play the Cowboys on Thanksgiving, so make that

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makes sense.

Speaker 8 (01:35:24):
But yeah, they play Maybe Thanksgiving doesn't count.

Speaker 10 (01:35:27):
I don't think it does as far as primetime, but
it's as far as stand alone, but it is.

Speaker 8 (01:35:31):
That's eight then, so they still have seven to go.
They have seven total primetime games. So they play the
Commanders tonight, then they don't play on primetime again until
Week fourteen against the Texans. Could that one get flexed
out and replace Colts Chiefs with Chiefs Texans? I can
see that.

Speaker 9 (01:35:48):
I'm not ready for all it is that, you know what,
give the Colts their respect next year? I like my
one pm kickoffs as God intended, and.

Speaker 8 (01:35:55):
Then week seventeen they play the Broncos on Christmas Day.

Speaker 6 (01:35:58):
Yeah, I'm getting at it.

Speaker 8 (01:36:00):
I think you would rather play Kansas City in a
little sleepy twelve o'clock Central time kickoff, right the Arrowhead
might not be as lively.

Speaker 6 (01:36:08):
Oh they'll be lively for that one.

Speaker 8 (01:36:10):
Well yeah, but that could sandwich into what you said,
Thanksgivings around their mark And don't have Denver right around
the Colts too.

Speaker 6 (01:36:16):
Those people have Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 1 (01:36:18):
They will be that for that game.

Speaker 8 (01:36:20):
Taylor Swift will be in this. Sweet kids, they got
to sit on their hands for one of these games.
By the way, that Week two win over Denver, Oh
it's looking really good right now. Can you imagine if
that game had flipped the other way? I know, but
if we're a fifth, we'd all be a little That
is a huge one when you're talking about the standings
right now, because remember, and I know this sounds stunning

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and I can't believe I'm saying it, but it's a
rounded where the cults are in twenty twenty five for
those that haven't been keeping up to the old playoff format.
In today's NFL, there's only one by, no more two buys,
just one bye. So the one seed gets the buy
and the two's playing on wild card weekend, and that
two seven matchup right now would probably be what like
Herbert or Allen or Mahomes, I mean, somebody pretty good

(01:37:02):
on the road the wild card round there. So that
went over Denver extra extra.

Speaker 4 (01:37:06):
Big at the very least.

Speaker 8 (01:37:07):
I think Colts Chiefs is getting flexed to the four
to twenty five slid, don't you think at this point? Yeah,
I just don't know how that works. There's no way
that's going me a one o'clock start.

Speaker 6 (01:37:18):
Oh yes it is, Yeah, but I know you love
the clocks.

Speaker 8 (01:37:21):
We're gonna make you charge of scheduling James, Jim and
Tony Rod there.

Speaker 6 (01:37:26):
I want to sleep.

Speaker 8 (01:37:27):
Can't that works? Like protect some games? It's a weird
to me how it all unfolds.

Speaker 4 (01:37:31):
It's like trying to follow the NBA's salary cap rules.
There's this, that the other thing, and then you have
an exception and then you can move this to that.

Speaker 8 (01:37:39):
They are like the Pacers getting a medical hardship, right now.

Speaker 10 (01:37:42):
You can keep it on CBS. You just flex it
too four to twenty five, which again we will get
no answer on this for at least multiple weeks.

Speaker 9 (01:37:48):
So I feel like Mark, you want me to square
up with him at this point. Now you not flexing
nothing but these knuckles. You keep talking about one PM.

Speaker 8 (01:37:55):
You know what, I've already got Washington machine issues. I'll
take your clothes in my dryer too, if you're not careful.

Speaker 4 (01:38:00):
Just so you know, the top three teams the AFC
right now, the Cults are seventy to one. The Broncos
and Patriots are six and two.

Speaker 8 (01:38:09):
James and your days of the NBA beat, did you
ever have a medical hardship situation? I'm trying to think
because I want to make sure these I don't think so.

Speaker 9 (01:38:19):
Because you know what I covered the NBA when they
were coming around of COVID, so all the rules were weird.
They had a bunch of yeah, hardship, you know, acquaintances,
I'm sorry, accommodations.

Speaker 8 (01:38:31):
With what I want to use. So, if I'm reading
this right, it requires four players to miss at least
three games. Well last night would have been their third game,
and those players have to be out at least two weeks,
so that would be Halliburton. Of course, Cam Jones and
TJ McConnell fall under that boat. And now I guess

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the question would be, is Matherin or Nemhard going to
miss two weeks which the third game I guess for them,
though technically for Nemhard specifically, is it got to be
a full game? Because now you might wait because I
was thinking, like, are they going to get a point guard?
I saw a report yesterday where campaign who was in
training camp with the Pacers, but they cut him. He

(01:39:14):
was gonna go overseas, but then I think the report said,
now now the NBA offers are looking better for him,
so he might stay over here. Well, I would assume
that means rejoin the Pacers, but I don't know if
you've got to get through Wednesday for that to be
like the third full game that Andrew Nemhard misses, and
again Nemhard would then have to miss two weeks. So yeah,
that starting lineup last night for the Pacers was one

(01:39:36):
that shout out to John Deadman, the Great Butler sid
I saw him sweet out that it looked like it
was one of those season ticket members somehow had donated
the most money and got to pick the starting lineup
for one night.

Speaker 4 (01:39:48):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 9 (01:39:49):
Yeah, I thought like, we need Tony East on these
air waves to explain that if it just come to
that for the Pacers, because he's.

Speaker 8 (01:39:53):
Great with that sort of four players, four players at
least three games, but then those players also have to
be out at least two weeks. So that's the question
right now. I think, is Nemhard or Matherin gonna miss
two weeks?

Speaker 9 (01:40:08):
And we haven't had timeline deliver from Rick Carlisle. He's
just said, hey, they're getting imaging done and as sorry
as Nimhar goes, he just said he, you know, all
remain out for the foreseeable future.

Speaker 6 (01:40:19):
I can't I still.

Speaker 4 (01:40:20):
Can't quite figure out what happened on that play? Was
it on that play? Was it earlier?

Speaker 6 (01:40:25):
What the Nimhar play?

Speaker 9 (01:40:26):
Yeah, when he got his arm pin by SGA, I
mean I think that's when it happened. But yeah, I
have no idea what the extended the injury actually is.

Speaker 4 (01:40:33):
Well, keep an eye on what the Pacers plan on doing.
But to dead Man's point, man, that's starting five, you're
gonna see a lot of starting fives like that in
the near future for the Indiana Pacers. Let's check it
down Mark. The Cults improved a seven and one of
thirty eight fourteen went over to Tennessee Titans. What a

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day for Jonathan Taylor one hundred and fifty three yards
rushing on only twelve carries, two touchdown runs, a touchdown
reception which is a shovel pass there. Daniel Jones had
three touchdown passes and two hundred and seventy two yards passing.
Michael Pittman Junior eight catches, ninety five yards in a touchdown.
That's starting almost to sound like a regular Those numbers

(01:41:15):
just sound like a regular week for them these days.

Speaker 6 (01:41:18):
Yeah, pretty crazy stuff.

Speaker 9 (01:41:19):
Jt through his first five years in the NFL, had
just two games with three total touchdowns. He has four
of those games through eight weeks this season, all.

Speaker 4 (01:41:30):
Right, So they are seven and one, they're in first
place in the AFC South, and they take a trip
to play the Pittsburgh Steelers. Already Kevin Bowen three point
favorites for the Colts on the road, and the over
unders forty nine and a half.

Speaker 8 (01:41:44):
Pittsburgh looks very bad in the second half last night,
and Shane Stike and has owned Mike Tomlin and Tara
Austin here over the last couple of seasons. So yeah,
I get it's Pittsburgh, and I get the atmosphere is
going to be tougher, and they've had a decent start
to the season here but little railing. And again Stiken
has really torched Pittsburgh in his recent career.

Speaker 4 (01:42:07):
Pittsburgh once had a nine point lead in last night's
game against the Packers, but ended up losing it by
ten thirty five twenty five. Jordan's Love had three hundred
and sixty yards and three touchdowns in that game. And
for fantasy purposes, Tucker Craft the tight end mark seven catches,
one hundred and forty three yards and two touchdowns.

Speaker 10 (01:42:24):
I am a Tucker Craft owner in our fantasy league.
So that was that was good to see, all right.

Speaker 4 (01:42:29):
Later on tonight Monday Night Football, Washington Commanders take on
the Kansas City Chiefs at eight fifteen UH. The Indiana
Pacers last night they hung tough. You know, we've been
talking about their lineup challenges and having seven guys that
are unavailable right now. They pushed Minnesota to the limit
one fourteen one ten. The Timberwolves did get the win.
The Pacers dropped to h to three. But you keep

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using the word gritty, McK Carlisle using the word gritty.
That was in defeat. A pretty gritty performance for that
team last night.

Speaker 8 (01:42:58):
Yeah, well, Siakam was out standing, and you know it
was just a hodgepodge of dudes and random guys bringing
the ball up playing point guards. So it's been a
pretty wild start for this team so far. Again at
Dallas coming up Wednesday, home for a few and one
week from tonight. Anybody I actually don't know this is

(01:43:22):
that is that when the trade deadline turner back inside
of game Bridge Field House. A little bit of a
slow start individually for Miles up there in Milwaukee.

Speaker 4 (01:43:33):
Number two in the nation. That remains the case for
the Indiana Who's Your Football team? After a fifty six
to six win over UCLA, Purdue had a chance against Rutgers,
but the end got sideways on Ryan Brown's attempted reception
of his own deflected pass. Yeah, it's just awful.

Speaker 8 (01:43:51):
Yeah, Purdue football, buddy, just text up. That's predue Football's brutal. Yeah,
basically try to catch his own pass. And did and
then fumbled it and now Rutgers is in field goal
range two win the game. So brutal, and Purdue has
a absolutely murderous month of November. Here, so them and I,
you have opposite novembers. Perdue is loaded and Indiana has

(01:44:13):
I want to say, it's one combined big ten win
in their final four opponents or something like that.

Speaker 4 (01:44:18):
Yeah, they will play at Maryland next week. The Hoosiers
will Purdue will be at number twenty one. Michigan Notre
Dame gets back in action after a buye this past week.
They'll take on Boston College. They are the twelfth ranked
team in the nation, but a lot of the Irish
fans won despite not having a game this past weekend.

Speaker 8 (01:44:35):
Kevin T's and p so Brian Kelly and his family
has always been a stand up individual. Always seems just
like a warm, fuzzy guy you just want to hug
and root for and cheer for. And bitterness is still
alive and well in my body. Here and a shout
out to whoever created the picture yesterday a dad Marcus
Freeman holding a baby with the picture of Brian Kelly's

(01:44:58):
face on it.

Speaker 5 (01:44:59):
It's a great to be a Tiger. I'm here with
my family.

Speaker 8 (01:45:04):
Do you think Maddie would be disappointed if I changed
the background on my phone to that picture of Marcus
Freeman holding baby Brian Kelly.

Speaker 4 (01:45:12):
I think she'd find that amusing. She would okay for
a moment. I think that's where there's it.

Speaker 9 (01:45:18):
Sounds like that would be a debate between that and
the SI magazine. So, you know, tread lightly all the.

Speaker 4 (01:45:23):
Way so far.

Speaker 8 (01:45:25):
So far, they are still in the downstairs shower that
we've never used.

Speaker 7 (01:45:30):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:45:30):
I think they will be kept. Thank you for all
of those that have reached out and showed support. I've
heard no one say shocking, very There's only one voice
that matters, very biased audience here. There's only one voice
that a sports audience. I think Mattie has been supportive.
Thank you for that, all right, But they need to
be moved to a different location.

Speaker 6 (01:45:47):
So trying to secure that get like you know all
mill doing down there. We got to make sure these a.

Speaker 8 (01:45:52):
Very good point, James, and trying to do that with
the broken garage right now, it's moved down the pecking
bigger fish to fries. What you're saying.

Speaker 4 (01:46:00):
Exhibition basketball, Indiana over Baylor seventy six seventy four. Perdue
losing their exhibition to Kentucky seventy eight sixty five. What
are they tell the.

Speaker 6 (01:46:08):
Sky is falling and the lafiet Oh my good?

Speaker 4 (01:46:11):
What do they take from it?

Speaker 6 (01:46:12):
It's over?

Speaker 9 (01:46:14):
I think in all serious this you take away the
fact that one Matt Panter signed up for this for
a reason. You want to get that test early in
the season. And also Kentucky's good, Like, this isn't a
scrimmage Number nine I think preseason. Yeah, this isn't a
scrimmage against some you know, NAIA program or something. They're
gonna be having something to say towards the end of
the regular season. I'm sorry, towards the end of the
NCAA tournament, I would think as well.

Speaker 8 (01:46:34):
One thing to point out about Perdue that I'm curious
about this season. When you play some teams that have
the sixty five, sixty six, sixty seven driving guard wings,
No more Miles Colvin, no more Camden Heidi, those guys, Yeah,
are you athletic and delayed? You know they're starting in
the backcourt is Braden Smith's CJ. Cox and Fletcher Lawyer.
That's small and not the most defensive minded outside of Cox.

(01:46:55):
So again in their front court then was Trake, Coffman,
Ren and Oscar Cloff. I mean those are big dudes.
So when you play those teams that you know throw
a couple different wings at you defensively, and now againdue
can count that in different ways. But you know those
are your second, potentially third weekend questions of the tournament.

Speaker 4 (01:47:12):
You might have, all right, just fight Monday night football
being on, I'm guessing my eyes will be tuned into
the World Series Game three tonight Toronto against the Los
Angeles Dodgers. It's a horrific pitching matchup. Max Schurz are
going up against Tyler Glasnow the series all tied up
at one game apiece. Where will your eyes be tonight?

Speaker 8 (01:47:32):
Mark Dyton multiview watching both of them flex flex on
Omar and Marcus Mariotta. You trust No, I don't, no, No,
That's why I got the Chiefs rolling in this one.

Speaker 10 (01:47:43):
But yeah, we'll see what happens there and then second
TV for some wrestling probably or scary movie maybe. Had
the girls watched Ernest Scared, Stupid and All Time Classic
over the weekend, they thoroughly enjoyed it. They also watched Gremlins.
So yeah, given the kids an education and format, yes, sir.

Speaker 6 (01:48:02):
And say this, it sounds like great theater.

Speaker 7 (01:48:04):
All right.

Speaker 4 (01:48:05):
Headlines from yesterday's games coming up in a moment. It's
ninety three five and one seven five of the fan
Gotta love the fact that the headlines people have to
start get really creative because every week it's about Jonathan Taylor,
it's about the offense, it's about the wins, and it
just keeps coming and coming and coming. And Mark Dyton, uh,
people are just gonna have to play on words with

(01:48:25):
the opponents every week because the culture just steamrolling everybody
right now, Well.

Speaker 8 (01:48:29):
Then that's a good That's why we need good postgame headlines.
That's why we do this thing. They're not as creative
after the wins, Mark, Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:48:37):
We which I mean, I'm not rooting for losses, obviously,
but obviously when you know a little more pissing vinegar
in people's comments, usually when the losses come.

Speaker 8 (01:48:45):
San Kelly and Aaron Rods.

Speaker 9 (01:48:47):
Honestly, it's the same way with game stories that I write,
Like when they lose, you'll get like fifty comments and
thirty five of them are just this team thinks. Oh yeah,
and today, hey JT's the m v P was my
kind of my game store. I got like five comments
and everyone obviously reading it, but they're just like, well,
we expected this because they beat the lowly Titans. I

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think the next big one, winner or lose, we'll get
a lot of headlines and and creativity front will probably
be the Chiefs game.

Speaker 8 (01:49:15):
No, I want I want it next week when the
Colts wax the floor with Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 6 (01:49:21):
Disdain for him as you.

Speaker 8 (01:49:23):
I want an Aaron Rodgers shaped imprint on the on
the field of Heinz Field.

Speaker 4 (01:49:27):
You're not one of those people would be happy if
he got injured or now.

Speaker 8 (01:49:29):
No, I don't root for injuries, but I would like
him to be sore.

Speaker 6 (01:49:33):
You want that player to be healthy in states.

Speaker 8 (01:49:35):
I want to be healthy and take every blow of
punishment he possibly can.

Speaker 4 (01:49:40):
All right, what do we have for headlines this week?
Mark Dyke? Then set me up. I can't read it.

Speaker 6 (01:49:48):
There's no there's no words on it. I'm burger and
this is what's happening.

Speaker 1 (01:49:51):
In your world tonight.

Speaker 5 (01:49:53):
From the headlines? Do it live?

Speaker 1 (01:49:56):
Get post game headlines? Sucks?

Speaker 4 (01:50:01):
All right?

Speaker 8 (01:50:02):
So we said it was a little lacking.

Speaker 10 (01:50:04):
There are lots of Jonathan Taylor love, which there should
be because he's been incredible so far, so so far.
We had Eric who said Titanic play words of titan
obviously Titanic ass kicking love it.

Speaker 8 (01:50:17):
So that was good there.

Speaker 10 (01:50:18):
Taylor takes down Titans was holly. Finally, proud IU football
fans said, forget the Titans, remember Taylor.

Speaker 6 (01:50:28):
That's well done.

Speaker 8 (01:50:29):
And then my personal favorite came from Kevin Bonen and
Kevin Bones's uh fake account said two games is a sweep.

Speaker 6 (01:50:37):
You're damn right it is that. No, let's check is
uh you know.

Speaker 10 (01:50:43):
VPN the old I p adds. His picture is literally
you on air with a plot Rickens shirt. He must
be like, is he dowding the cameras in here? Maybe
that's how he's.

Speaker 8 (01:50:56):
Getting get one of those Nielsen pager you know, meters
for for that human. There yeah, a lot of Jonathan
Taylor centric ones here. Uh you know, Billy says this
Taylor best colts are be ever that is quite the
statement or question. You know what, and you know what,
I'm with you, James, go ahead.

Speaker 6 (01:51:15):
As the kids say, I'm rolling on that. Yes, I agree.

Speaker 8 (01:51:18):
Falk and Dickerson, we're better elsewhere. Yeah, Edgerrin m boy. Yeah,
it's a great, great debate. It's slight edge to edge
right now. But on the pathway Jonathan Taylor is going
Cam Jones type speed catching up to the old edge.

(01:51:41):
The fact that's a legit debate.

Speaker 7 (01:51:42):
Now.

Speaker 6 (01:51:43):
I know, to me, j T's the best running BA
to everywhere.

Speaker 9 (01:51:46):
That uniform, I mean, I think I think edge edge
still takes a cake notice effect of the legend anymore
from way back winning but a modern running backs.

Speaker 8 (01:51:54):
Yeah, but Jonathan Taylor is uh is humming here rank
and flush save Jonathan Taylor Ford December. It's funny I
do have those like internal debates of myself, Like yesterday,
I think I tweeted the first quarter I'm looking up
Jonathan Taylor's career high. But then I'm like, when they
just blow these teams out, he's never gonna get it because, yeah,
they don't leave them in the game. And they did

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save him.

Speaker 6 (01:52:15):
He had twelve carries yesterday, I know, I mean it
was yesterday's few as touches of the season.

Speaker 4 (01:52:21):
It might have been we keep scoring touchdowns for eighty
yards and thirty yards and stuff like that. You don't
need to get the ball very often though. That's the
end of the possession.

Speaker 8 (01:52:29):
You don't get paid by the rush. You can just
you know, I mean clock in six and one.

Speaker 4 (01:52:33):
Roy.

Speaker 9 (01:52:33):
Do you remember how contentious not just between Jim Mersey
and Jonathan Taylor when he came to this contract, but
the fan base in Jonathan Taylor. People were like, don't
pay running backs. He always gets hurt. Forget about it
doesn't matter you look up. Wait a second, it was
a good idea to invest in that guy.

Speaker 8 (01:52:52):
What's our boy's name, his agent, Malki Kawa or whatever. Yes,
his agent's name, Yes, is that it Malkikyle. I'm trying
to think what it was. I remember he DM me
one time.

Speaker 6 (01:53:04):
That was quite an event.

Speaker 8 (01:53:07):
He wasn't hiding by the scenes there he was.

Speaker 9 (01:53:09):
He made that TikTok with the voices of everyone who
trashed JT saying he wasn't gonna get paid.

Speaker 6 (01:53:16):
Thankfully, I wasn't in there. He made a TikTok about
it after he got his money.

Speaker 8 (01:53:20):
Gosh, unbelievable. So wild.

Speaker 9 (01:53:23):
Here's a stat for you, though I'd looked this up.
So JT leads the league and scrimmage yards. Two players
are over a thousand, so JT's at one thousand fifty six.
The other player over one thousand is Christian McCaffrey, who
said twenty eight more touches but gained seven fewer yards.

(01:53:45):
That gives you some perspective of how great JT has
been every week he's put on the show. His bad
week was like having three touchdowns and only eighty something
rushing yards.

Speaker 6 (01:53:59):
Wow, I mean, it's special stuff, man.

Speaker 9 (01:54:05):
He is in And I remember a couple weeks ago
walking out of the locker room, Kevin and we were
talking about Quinn Nelson and he was like, yeah, it's
a Hall of Famer right there. And I turned to
him and I said, well, you know it's you too,
right right? Oh yeah, And he's like, I gotta give
it more time. Yes, I would agree, but no, you

(01:54:25):
are also going to a gold jacket. There are two
Hall of Famer and he is on a direct path.
There are two Hall of Fame caliber players on this
team right now, and it's Quinn Nelson and Jonathan Taylor.

Speaker 4 (01:54:37):
Quick question for you, guys. I haven't talked about it
all today. We talked about it a lot last week
we'll probably talk about it a lot this week. Where
are we at on bolstering the defense via trade at
this point?

Speaker 8 (01:54:48):
Yeah, obviously a conversation we can probably expand on tomorrow.
I'm still a fan of it, and I vote passed
Rush a little bit more than Corner. I could get
talked into both. But yes, I think it's necessary. I
think you owe it. You owe it to your.

Speaker 4 (01:55:01):
Offense and a little bit of this roster.

Speaker 8 (01:55:04):
Like I don't want to act like the Colts are
an old football team, but they do have several guys
twenty nine, thirty thirty one, thirty two years old. You know,
when you reach that age in the NFL, these things
don't grow on trees. So yes, for one of the
few times in the Chris Baward era, I will say,
a week before the trade deadline, you need to buy.

Speaker 4 (01:55:25):
It's not possible. I'm not saying it's even remotely possible.
You imagine Miles Garrett on this team.

Speaker 8 (01:55:32):
All right?

Speaker 6 (01:55:33):
Now back in reality, No, I'm.

Speaker 4 (01:55:35):
Just saying that you can imagine. For a minute.

Speaker 8 (01:55:37):
We should mention Tranfrickson got hurt yesterday for the Bengals,
so reeggvaged that him injury they lost.

Speaker 6 (01:55:44):
You imagine Miles Gear on this team. So yeah, Max
Crosby like man.

Speaker 8 (01:55:50):
And again one thing just to keep in mind for today,
we'll see Shane Sackin have a zoom coming up this afternoon.
The Colts have had a couple of guys. Guys flash
up on a Monday with concussion symptoms. Josh Dollens comes
to mind, Tavarious Ward comes to mind. Daniel Jones took
a big hit of a slam of the head to
the turf there on that sack I was little surprised

(01:56:13):
he didn't get checked out, So we'll see if there's
anything lingering on that.

Speaker 4 (01:56:19):
All right, we'll get you ready to go for the
rest of your Monday as well as we continue the
Fan Morning Show in a moment, still time to get
your thoughts in via the text line at two three
nine ten seventy you're listening to ninety three to five
and one oh seven five the Fan. It's on the
fan text line and let me let this play for
a minute mark before I get going here.

Speaker 8 (01:56:38):
Big s Club seven Fan.

Speaker 4 (01:56:41):
Just fits again as most of your music does.

Speaker 8 (01:56:43):
Yep, it's all tied to seven seven wins today, So
that's what we're going with today.

Speaker 4 (01:56:49):
I like it, uh buzz getting ready to say on
the fan text line today, Kevin, a lot of people
asking about why do you think there might be so
many injuries for the Indiana Pacers is just dumb luck
just the way it goes is the length and intensity
of the prior season. I gets sometimes there is no reason.

Speaker 8 (01:57:06):
I know it is. First off, it's a massive number
of injuries. I would say hamstrings might be the most common.
You know, I think it back to TJ McConnell, Quinton Jackson,
Obi Topping, I think those are all of them. Now,
you know a guy like Taylor Peter for example, Well,
I mean he wasn't on the team last year. So

(01:57:28):
Cam Jones wasn't on the team last year.

Speaker 4 (01:57:30):
So I don't know.

Speaker 8 (01:57:31):
Maybe it's a question we'll throw Rick Carlisle's way tomorrow
as the training staff giving him into any indication of
you know, the why behind it. You know, you watch
Bendick Matheren the other night, James, he literally just steps
on the dude, period. I mean he's driving on him
and just steps on the dude. I mean, yeah, that
can happen with you.

Speaker 9 (01:57:47):
I think we could drive ourselves crazy when we try
to find reasons for bad things.

Speaker 8 (01:57:50):
But like I get the question, Yeah, I understand why
you you ask that, and it's a very alarming number
in game three of the season.

Speaker 9 (01:57:57):
Yeah, But honestly, I feel like we could look at
at a team around the league every year that goes
for something like this.

Speaker 6 (01:58:03):
Unfortunately, and for whatever reason, it's just your turn.

Speaker 9 (01:58:07):
So we'll see all they able to kind of rally
and hopefully get healthy over the next couple of days.
And then to your point from earlier, Kevin, what does
that mean if you're not able to get healthy, are
you able to go out and get a hardship player
to just help you have enough bodies to go out
there and compete in an NBA game, because I do
believe you're required to have at least eight healthy players.

(01:58:28):
And then the Pacers are kind of teetering on how
many guys you can have healthy With so many guys out,
especially with no really updates on any of them, I
feel like I.

Speaker 10 (01:58:37):
Feel like the basketball gods have said, did you guys
have fun last year? Did you like all those highlight
reel finishes and all that stuff? Now we're gonna swing
the pendulum in the opposite direction.

Speaker 8 (01:58:47):
How's that feel. I'm like, oh god, that's not fun.

Speaker 7 (01:58:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:58:50):
Last night, like Maddie I were watching the game, She's
like living and dying with some of the near misses.
And I'm like, if you only realized how injured the
Pacers are right now, Like I'm just chalking up as
a loss. And yeah, well, I mean they had some
chances there late. Anthony Edwards did leave after three minutes
last night for those that care. But we'll see Wednesday
in Dallas back home, back to back this weekend, so

(01:59:12):
you talk about having available bodies for that, and then
one week from tonight Miles Turner inside of gamebridge Fieldhouse.

Speaker 10 (01:59:19):
NBA gives out sixth Man Awards and I think the
Pacers might give out sixteenth man awards.

Speaker 8 (01:59:23):
That the weight they're going this year.

Speaker 4 (01:59:25):
The one thing that still worries to me, Sorry good injuries,
it was it take a look at the three centers
that played last night, A combined total for the entire
game for three centers of eight rebounds.

Speaker 9 (01:59:41):
Yeah, I mean it's a theme because I want to
say to your point, Chef, and I was like, I said,
I covered the season opener first home game of the
year for the Pacers. In that game, in a double
overtime game, one of the longest games you'll have all year,
the center has had more fouls com bined then points

(02:00:01):
and rebounds in a game that was fifty eight minutes.

Speaker 6 (02:00:08):
So yeah, not ideal.

Speaker 8 (02:00:10):
Yeah, I actually thought Tony Bradley gave them some decent minutes.
Toming Goobert, you know, is go bear. But right now
there's just no fluidity to that rotation at all in
how it's gone so well. See Nemharden, mathen If I
had to rank the injuries, of course those would be
the two, you know, big ones to keep an eye on,
because I actually thought Matheren was having a great, great

(02:00:32):
start to the season, albeit only in about a game
and a half.

Speaker 4 (02:00:35):
Can you imagine poor Rick over there on the sideline
just trying to figure out what what can I do?
What commination can I throw out there? Right now? Just
look at the starting five he's settled on.

Speaker 8 (02:00:43):
Last night, Again, I hate to repeat myself, but for
those that maybe missed it in the seven or eight
o'clock hours, I'm watching the game Saturday night, game two
of the Pacers season, and in the first quarter, it's
ray J Dennis and Taylor Peter in the Backcourt's probably
good chunk of our audience. It didn't even don't even
know who ray J Dennis and tayl and Peter are. Like,

(02:01:05):
that's a Noblesville Boom starting lineup, not a first quarter
of a you know, game two of the season here.
So it's a sad reality with where the Pacers are.

Speaker 4 (02:01:16):
Yeah, I had said and I was holding strong to
it too, about the Pacers being a five hundred team
this year even without Halliburton and Miles Turner being god.
But the injuries keep up. There's you can't even I
can't even see thirty five wins if these injuries could
go on the way they're going. Kevin just don't have guys.
Don't have NBA guys at a certain point, certainly don't

(02:01:37):
have NBA starters.

Speaker 8 (02:01:38):
Yeah, it can change the conversation in a hurry, But
seventy nine more nights is a long long time. So
we'll see how the season unfolds. Last year, if you
want to, you know, play that game, what were they
ten and fifteen at one point? So it's a long
long time, and it pairs, I think with one of
your more difficult stretches of the schedule. So if you're
gonna pair it with any I think it's a good
pairing to have.

Speaker 4 (02:01:57):
Yeah. Hey, one of the things when I was on
the plane back, yes they coming back to Indianapolis, I
had the good fortune to sit next to uh Damn
McMichael and his his wife Nancy. They are the owners
of the Rascaler, and I found out that in conjunction
with the Cults, they're gonna have a huge watch party
in two weeks on that Sunday morning. So if you're
looking together with a bunch of Colts fans, that might
be a really good place to go watch that the
overseas game. Yeah, love me.

Speaker 8 (02:02:18):
The Rascaler. Spent numerous nights there when I was living
in Fountain Square and living downtown. Excellent, excellent establishment. And
obviously they're German. Heritage speaks for itself, so that seems
to be great.

Speaker 7 (02:02:30):
Dad.

Speaker 8 (02:02:30):
I tell you what, you have a couple of beers
of the Raskaler at nine thirty in the morning, and
oh boy, that's a hell of a Sunday.

Speaker 4 (02:02:35):
I would think there's like Bloody Mary's being on well
the menu there.

Speaker 9 (02:02:39):
Right, I don't know, Brady, Marry is the one that
has tomato juice. Yes, if you drink that, you don't
love yourself. Yeah, you can't convince me that what is it?
Is a tomato juice and like vodka or.

Speaker 4 (02:02:48):
I've never had one.

Speaker 8 (02:02:49):
Yeah, it's vodka tomato juice and like you can put
yeah celery sticks.

Speaker 6 (02:02:55):
See nah, all right. As a non drigger. If you
drink that, you don't love yourself, and if you tell
me is good, you're a liar.

Speaker 8 (02:03:04):
As a man debate one time a mimosa or bloody
Mary as.

Speaker 10 (02:03:08):
A man who had to make both momoses and Bloody
Mary's at the country club I worked at years ago.
Many times I respected the people that drink Momosa's more
because bloody Mary's Like why why would you do that?
Why are you making? Put all these ingredients in this drink?
Right now, it's harder to drink to make right, it's
like ten parts to it.

Speaker 4 (02:03:25):
Yeah, I got can.

Speaker 8 (02:03:29):
Go together.

Speaker 6 (02:03:29):
Can we have a pickle?

Speaker 4 (02:03:30):
Speirarit?

Speaker 8 (02:03:30):
It's brunch, eat some food that's on the buffet.

Speaker 4 (02:03:33):
Do you ever respect the guy that comes to you
to ten o'clock in the morning, He's like, yeah, I
just need a shot straight up.

Speaker 8 (02:03:37):
Oh yeah, I hear you, brother, I just made one
hundred bloody Mary's I'm right there. What do you have that?
It sounds like Jason Hammer last Thursday and shout out
to Jason Hammer plus eight hundred Jonathan Taylor's free touchdown?

Speaker 7 (02:03:50):
Bad?

Speaker 8 (02:03:50):
How about that? So Hammer gave us plus two ninety
mather and first three pointer in the opener that hit
and then that from Jonathan Taylor with the three touchdown.

Speaker 10 (02:04:00):
Jason Hammer and there's on a roll right now. He
sat out to Florida too. He's buying himself all these trips.
All of the sudden he doesn't have any mob tized.
Does that we need to know about why?

Speaker 4 (02:04:09):
I hope not? May No man, Good job out of Jason.
All right, that's gonna wrap it up for US. Game three.
The World Series comes your way later on tonight, and uh,
we'll talk about all of that and the Colts will
find out if they came out of everything healthy a
little bit later on today. Enjoy the rest of your day.
It's Jay Query at noon JMB at three. We'll see
you tomorrow morning at seven

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