July 24, 2025 • 11 mins
JMV has an in-depth conversation with Indianapolis Colts Defensive Lineman Tyquan Lewis. First, Lewis describes life working under new DC Lou Anarumo to this point in the offseason. Looking at a broader perspective, it’s been a tough road for Lewis in his career so far- the defensive lineman dives into his perseverance. Plus, they talk about Lewis’s hometown & his shared love for cars with JMV.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Joining us now the Andy Moore Automotive Group hootline. He
is with the Colts, a member of that defense learning
some new things. I'm assuming the veteran Taekwon Lewis joins
us now. Taekwan, thank you for the time. How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Yes, I appreciate it. Thank you for allowing me come on.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Pretty well.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
So well we're going to we're going to dive in
a little bit to Tee Town and your community celebration
in your hometown of North Carolina. And also I've been
told from a mutual acquaintance that you're a big time
car guy, so we're gonna get into that a little
bit too. Yes, I've done my damn research, Taekwon, I
(00:37):
appreciate it. Man. Taekwon Lewis joins us. Let's start right here,
transition from one coordinator to the other. You go from
Gus Bradley now and what he does and what he
wants to now something completely different to lou Anarumo. How
is that transitional process going so far?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Oh it's been great. Man. Louis very hands on, very
very very starring into the detail. He's very I guess
he has a big playbook. Let's let's say that Lou
he has a lot of things to offer to the defense,
gets a lot of guys in great positions to be successful.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
For those that are kind of curious, I'm curious, I'll
talk to Nick Cross, your teammate yesterday about this. But
your thoughts on what fans will see, maybe some of
the nuances and differences that they will see, or maybe
even better yet, what they won't see that you can
talk about right now that they can expect anything stand
out to you.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yes, I think you'll see a very disciplined product on
the field. I think you'll see a lot of great
plays being made by a lot of great players on
the field. Each and every one of the guys are
brought into what Lou's bringing to the table. You know,
this thing goes as the players go and coaches coach
players player. I think Lou is a great coach and
(01:55):
he's been doing a great job for us so far,
and we're thankful for what happened here in Indy.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah, he has Taekwon Lewis coach camp joining us on
Andy More Automotive Group. Hootline is this meaning? Is this
much of a change for you just individually speaking and
your responsibilities at all or does most of that still
remain the same.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Depends. Uh, Lou has a lot of a lot of
defenses to offer. I think sometimes we uh we we
learn new stuff every day, new terminology, like I said,
a lot of different fronts. Uh. He's like a mass
scientist sometimes, so some of his new some of his
uh I'm not say recycled information, but it's it's a
(02:37):
new language sometimes.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Does it take a minute to get or because you've
done this basically all of your life now and learn
new things, is it just like secondhand nature to you by.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Now, well, believe it or not. I've been in the
same kind of defense all my license, like Little League,
So some of the stuff we do is totally different
than me. And uh, it's but I'm a fast run
I'm a very very smart guy. So I just I
learned multiple ways and I'm just picking it up as
(03:09):
as I go.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I'm trying to picture Taekwon Lewis in one of his cars,
one of his rides with the playbook in hand, studying,
doing a little cramming for anything like that. That doesn't
take place. It just all kind of flows for you.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Huh. Not much of Kramer. You know, I look at
it on the on the projective, I write it down,
I might look over it again and it's like second nature.
It just comes to me sometimes.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
That's that Taekwon lewis on they anymore out about a
group hotline? How do you feel at this point in
your career right now? There's been a lot of battles
and when I think about you, when they said that
you're going to come on, Kantu said, hey, Taekwan's going
to join you tomorrow. I think about the word perseverance.
What do you think about in thinking about your career
to this point with the Colts?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Oh? Man, it's been great. Uh. You know, I spent
some times when you where we have setbacks and stuff
like that. But you know, what good is the story
if you don't have anything to overcome. So, like you said,
perseverance is just great to have, especially in my corner,
you know, just to get through anything and everything that
(04:14):
life has brought my way.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Has that been basically you in a nutshell going all
the way back to Tarborough and North Carolina on other day?
Has that been you persevering?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Oh? Yeah, any and every chance I could get, you know, well,
the good, bad, ugly and different. You know, I'm always grateful.
You know, any opportunity I get to do anything in life,
I just try to like take make the most of it.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Tarboro, North Carolina, celebrated a community Day not too long ago,
and you are the emphasis of that. I come from
a very small town, even smaller than that in southern Indiana,
and I know what it means to go and come
from a small community and to give back and to
be a part of that because you're heart and your
soul never leaves. You may be here, but it never
(04:57):
leaves where you grow up.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Like that.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
How special of a moment was that for you this summer?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Oh, it was a great moment just to go back
and see everybody from my youth and like everybody from
the hometown that's played a part in helping me become
the Taekwon Lewis I am today. You know, it was
just great just to give back and give everybody opportunity
just to see like what life has to offer as
far as like outside of Tarboro, and you know, just
(05:26):
help make your community a better place as well.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
On the banks of the Tar River, I believe around
Rocky Mount, North Carolina and that metropolitan area is Tarboro,
North Carolina. I did look this up. You there are
a lot of athletic dudes, a lot of notables coming
from your area. Holy crap, Yes, sir, A.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Lot of a lot of athletes coming out of Tarboro. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
And you know what, what's.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Not a lot of winning. A lot of winning football
and a lot of winning everything there, you know, so
very athletic.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah, and I'm thinking Taekwon. I'm looking this and it's
not just in football. It's it's football, It's it's baseball.
Mike Caldwell was a former Major league pitcher from there.
It's basketball. I just watched Montrez Harrold play in the
TBT over the weekend. Yeah, for his former Louisville team.
Trent Tucker, who played it at Minnesota, was a noted
three point shooter. I think for the Knicks for the
(06:19):
most part, people around here will remember him. It's like
a who's who of athletes and stars from your community.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
It is. It's a lot of gray athletes over there
in Tallboro. Man, me, myself, Todd Gurly to Kobe Coolefield,
Sean Jon, Donald, Frank, It's a lot.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Kelvin Bryant, Yeah, Kelvin Bryant. I should mention him too, Yeah,
and I should mention Couter from Dukes of Hazzard. I
think it's also from your community.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
It's a lot of people, man, a lot of a
lot going on in small town. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Taekwon lewis with us, and we'll transition from Cooter who
worked on cars famously on Dukes of Hazzard or the
television show Ben Jones, the actor to you. I have
been told by a mutual acquaintance that you are a
big time car dude. Is this true?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yes, sir, I am. I've been a car enthusiasm my
entire life. I think.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
All right, so what is what is? What would be
among your favorites? You can go with a singular favorite,
plural favorites. What do you what do you like the most?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Right now, I'll say my favorite car to drive is
a Posture.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yes, this is this is exactly the car that it
was described to me right here. But my yeah, but
but Michelle, Michelle has one that is white.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yes, yes, I think that's a that's a that's the
best car to drive. I think it's the ultimate driving.
The scene if you like going in and out occurs
down and around. But my favorite car it's up in
the air. Man, I built the truck seventy one ten,
(07:59):
let's see. I also I also like the four Galaxy,
but I think the next project would definitely be sixty
seven Coolar the x R seven. So that's that's probably
one of my favorites. Does man, we move on to
a Mustang?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Is your galaxy in honor of the patrol Car and
Andy Griffiths show from Maybury, North MA.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Again not as my grandfather's.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Now it does it got hydraulics in it? Do you do?
You go all the way with.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
No, it's just all chrome. Nice nice car, fully start.
I won't get a new carburetor for it. That's about it.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I love this man, this is a hell of a conversation.
It's funny. I didn't I didn't know this about you,
and I think this would be there's a sweeps week
local TV wise the sweeps week, I think, uh promo
segment where it is written all over it probably giving
somebody some insight right here right.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Never know.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I will tell you this in closing. I know you're
learning a lot again, a new system and all that.
With lou Anarumo out at Colts Camp right now. But
I also my first car was a Porsche. True story,
Oh wow, it was. Were you nineteen seventy four, I'm
fifty five. I was a class of eighty eight. But
I had a nineteen seventy four Porsche nine fourteen. It
(09:23):
was a two seater, mid engine. So what it was, taekwon.
It was a German seventies version of the Pontiac Fierro,
is what it was. This is kind of what it was,
a German Fierro if you remember the Fierro from the
nineteen eighties Pontiac made. It was a mid engine. It
was awesome. I thought it was like magnum p I
driving around in it, right But where we're from, because
(09:46):
we grew up in really small towns, we drove around
before we got our license. And I did that too,
and I'm assuming you probably did as well. I just
I wrecked that. I ten canned the Porsche nine fourteen though, yeah, well,
don't ever be in an accident, and sure as he'll
never be in an accident in a Porsche nine fourteen,
(10:08):
nineteen seventy four mid engine German Fierro because it was
zero fun right there. But I can always say, I
eight man, I I should have gone to the Junkyard
and ripped the logo and the emblem off the front.
I will never forgive myself, even after I record, for
not doing that because that was what was important. It
was the emblem on the front which was most important
(10:30):
to me. So yeah, true story. Uh Porsche Brothers right here,
Taekwon Lewis and JMV. Just having a car conversation on
the Anymore Automotive Group on line. Hey, we'll do this
again soon. Stay healthy, keep after it, continue to persevere.
Always a great conversation. Fantastic having you on the show.
(10:51):
And we'll see you when we get up there for
a night practice or two.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Okay, yes, sir, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
You got it. Taekwon, thank you very much. That is
Taekwon Lewis on the Andy Moore Automotive Group hootline.
Joining us now the Andy Moore Automotive Group hootline. He
is with the Colts, a member of that defense learning
some new things. I'm assuming the veteran Taekwon Lewis joins
us now. Taekwan, thank you for the time. How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Yes, I appreciate it. Thank you for allowing me come on.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Pretty well.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
So well we're going to we're going to dive in
a little bit to Tee Town and your community celebration
in your hometown of North Carolina. And also I've been
told from a mutual acquaintance that you're a big time
car guy, so we're gonna get into that a little
bit too. Yes, I've done my damn research, Taekwon, I
(00:37):
appreciate it. Man. Taekwon Lewis joins us. Let's start right here,
transition from one coordinator to the other. You go from
Gus Bradley now and what he does and what he
wants to now something completely different to lou Anarumo. How
is that transitional process going so far?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Oh it's been great. Man. Louis very hands on, very
very very starring into the detail. He's very I guess
he has a big playbook. Let's let's say that Lou
he has a lot of things to offer to the defense,
gets a lot of guys in great positions to be successful.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
For those that are kind of curious, I'm curious, I'll
talk to Nick Cross, your teammate yesterday about this. But
your thoughts on what fans will see, maybe some of
the nuances and differences that they will see, or maybe
even better yet, what they won't see that you can
talk about right now that they can expect anything stand
out to you.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yes, I think you'll see a very disciplined product on
the field. I think you'll see a lot of great
plays being made by a lot of great players on
the field. Each and every one of the guys are
brought into what Lou's bringing to the table. You know,
this thing goes as the players go and coaches coach
players player. I think Lou is a great coach and
(01:55):
he's been doing a great job for us so far,
and we're thankful for what happened here in Indy.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah, he has Taekwon Lewis coach camp joining us on
Andy More Automotive Group. Hootline is this meaning? Is this
much of a change for you just individually speaking and
your responsibilities at all or does most of that still
remain the same.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Depends. Uh, Lou has a lot of a lot of
defenses to offer. I think sometimes we uh we we
learn new stuff every day, new terminology, like I said,
a lot of different fronts. Uh. He's like a mass
scientist sometimes, so some of his new some of his
uh I'm not say recycled information, but it's it's a
(02:37):
new language sometimes.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Does it take a minute to get or because you've
done this basically all of your life now and learn
new things, is it just like secondhand nature to you by.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Now, well, believe it or not. I've been in the
same kind of defense all my license, like Little League,
So some of the stuff we do is totally different
than me. And uh, it's but I'm a fast run
I'm a very very smart guy. So I just I
learned multiple ways and I'm just picking it up as
(03:09):
as I go.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I'm trying to picture Taekwon Lewis in one of his cars,
one of his rides with the playbook in hand, studying,
doing a little cramming for anything like that. That doesn't
take place. It just all kind of flows for you.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Huh. Not much of Kramer. You know, I look at
it on the on the projective, I write it down,
I might look over it again and it's like second nature.
It just comes to me sometimes.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
That's that Taekwon lewis on they anymore out about a
group hotline? How do you feel at this point in
your career right now? There's been a lot of battles
and when I think about you, when they said that
you're going to come on, Kantu said, hey, Taekwan's going
to join you tomorrow. I think about the word perseverance.
What do you think about in thinking about your career
to this point with the Colts?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Oh? Man, it's been great. Uh. You know, I spent
some times when you where we have setbacks and stuff
like that. But you know, what good is the story
if you don't have anything to overcome. So, like you said,
perseverance is just great to have, especially in my corner,
you know, just to get through anything and everything that
(04:14):
life has brought my way.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Has that been basically you in a nutshell going all
the way back to Tarborough and North Carolina on other day?
Has that been you persevering?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Oh? Yeah, any and every chance I could get, you know, well,
the good, bad, ugly and different. You know, I'm always grateful.
You know, any opportunity I get to do anything in life,
I just try to like take make the most of it.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Tarboro, North Carolina, celebrated a community Day not too long ago,
and you are the emphasis of that. I come from
a very small town, even smaller than that in southern Indiana,
and I know what it means to go and come
from a small community and to give back and to
be a part of that because you're heart and your
soul never leaves. You may be here, but it never
(04:57):
leaves where you grow up.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Like that.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
How special of a moment was that for you this summer?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Oh, it was a great moment just to go back
and see everybody from my youth and like everybody from
the hometown that's played a part in helping me become
the Taekwon Lewis I am today. You know, it was
just great just to give back and give everybody opportunity
just to see like what life has to offer as
far as like outside of Tarboro, and you know, just
(05:26):
help make your community a better place as well.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
On the banks of the Tar River, I believe around
Rocky Mount, North Carolina and that metropolitan area is Tarboro,
North Carolina. I did look this up. You there are
a lot of athletic dudes, a lot of notables coming
from your area. Holy crap, Yes, sir, A.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Lot of a lot of athletes coming out of Tarboro. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
And you know what, what's.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Not a lot of winning. A lot of winning football
and a lot of winning everything there, you know, so
very athletic.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah, and I'm thinking Taekwon. I'm looking this and it's
not just in football. It's it's football, It's it's baseball.
Mike Caldwell was a former Major league pitcher from there.
It's basketball. I just watched Montrez Harrold play in the
TBT over the weekend. Yeah, for his former Louisville team.
Trent Tucker, who played it at Minnesota, was a noted
three point shooter. I think for the Knicks for the
(06:19):
most part, people around here will remember him. It's like
a who's who of athletes and stars from your community.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
It is. It's a lot of gray athletes over there
in Tallboro. Man, me, myself, Todd Gurly to Kobe Coolefield,
Sean Jon, Donald, Frank, It's a lot.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Kelvin Bryant, Yeah, Kelvin Bryant. I should mention him too, Yeah,
and I should mention Couter from Dukes of Hazzard. I
think it's also from your community.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
It's a lot of people, man, a lot of a
lot going on in small town. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Taekwon lewis with us, and we'll transition from Cooter who
worked on cars famously on Dukes of Hazzard or the
television show Ben Jones, the actor to you. I have
been told by a mutual acquaintance that you are a
big time car dude. Is this true?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yes, sir, I am. I've been a car enthusiasm my
entire life. I think.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
All right, so what is what is? What would be
among your favorites? You can go with a singular favorite,
plural favorites. What do you what do you like the most?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Right now, I'll say my favorite car to drive is
a Posture.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yes, this is this is exactly the car that it
was described to me right here. But my yeah, but
but Michelle, Michelle has one that is white.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yes, yes, I think that's a that's a that's the
best car to drive. I think it's the ultimate driving.
The scene if you like going in and out occurs
down and around. But my favorite car it's up in
the air. Man, I built the truck seventy one ten,
(07:59):
let's see. I also I also like the four Galaxy,
but I think the next project would definitely be sixty
seven Coolar the x R seven. So that's that's probably
one of my favorites. Does man, we move on to
a Mustang?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Is your galaxy in honor of the patrol Car and
Andy Griffiths show from Maybury, North MA.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Again not as my grandfather's.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Now it does it got hydraulics in it? Do you do?
You go all the way with.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
No, it's just all chrome. Nice nice car, fully start.
I won't get a new carburetor for it. That's about it.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I love this man, this is a hell of a conversation.
It's funny. I didn't I didn't know this about you,
and I think this would be there's a sweeps week
local TV wise the sweeps week, I think, uh promo
segment where it is written all over it probably giving
somebody some insight right here right.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Never know.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I will tell you this in closing. I know you're
learning a lot again, a new system and all that.
With lou Anarumo out at Colts Camp right now. But
I also my first car was a Porsche. True story,
Oh wow, it was. Were you nineteen seventy four, I'm
fifty five. I was a class of eighty eight. But
I had a nineteen seventy four Porsche nine fourteen. It
(09:23):
was a two seater, mid engine. So what it was, taekwon.
It was a German seventies version of the Pontiac Fierro,
is what it was. This is kind of what it was,
a German Fierro if you remember the Fierro from the
nineteen eighties Pontiac made. It was a mid engine. It
was awesome. I thought it was like magnum p I
driving around in it, right But where we're from, because
(09:46):
we grew up in really small towns, we drove around
before we got our license. And I did that too,
and I'm assuming you probably did as well. I just
I wrecked that. I ten canned the Porsche nine fourteen though, yeah, well,
don't ever be in an accident, and sure as he'll
never be in an accident in a Porsche nine fourteen,
(10:08):
nineteen seventy four mid engine German Fierro because it was
zero fun right there. But I can always say, I
eight man, I I should have gone to the Junkyard
and ripped the logo and the emblem off the front.
I will never forgive myself, even after I record, for
not doing that because that was what was important. It
was the emblem on the front which was most important
(10:30):
to me. So yeah, true story. Uh Porsche Brothers right here,
Taekwon Lewis and JMV. Just having a car conversation on
the Anymore Automotive Group on line. Hey, we'll do this
again soon. Stay healthy, keep after it, continue to persevere.
Always a great conversation. Fantastic having you on the show.
(10:51):
And we'll see you when we get up there for
a night practice or two.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Okay, yes, sir, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
You got it. Taekwon, thank you very much. That is
Taekwon Lewis on the Andy Moore Automotive Group hootline.
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