November 13, 2020 • 38 mins
Doug tells you why you shouldn't be fooled by the Colts big win over the Titans despite what the final score says. Former Colts head coach Rick Venturi joins the show to discuss the Colts' Super Bowl chances.
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and closer to the draft and getting closer and closer
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But before we get to this weekend, let's get to
what we saw last night. If you look in the
box score, it says the Indianapolis Colts had a one
point run in the second half to take a lead
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in the a f C South. The third quarter was
where so much of it changed. It was seventeen to
thirteen Tennessee Titans. The Colts score with about two minutes
and fifty seconds to go at the end of the
third quarter. Name Hinz who is in one of their
new running backs. He's had a great year. On the
subsequent possession, the Titans go three and out and get
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a punt blocked by the Innnapolis Colts. So again, if
you're scoring at home or if you're by yourself, it
goes from height to seven seventeen. The Colts drive all
the way down the field when they get the ball
back again after a terrible punt from the Titans, and score,
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and that, as they say, is that that was the
ball game. This was Mike Brabel, head coach of the Titans,
on the loss of the Colts. We have to be better,
and I'll say that in all areas. So we'll look
at what we're doing and you know, try to do
what's best for the team. We always do. We all
have jobs to do and we have to try to
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do them better. Um. I think when you when you
look Philip Rivers was good last night, I'm not. I
want to make sure that when we discussed Philip Rivers
you understand it's like a friend of court. Like I'm
a huge Philip Rivers fan. Okay, I am staunchly in
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the he is a Hall of Famer. His career is
gonna go massively underrated because a couple of playoffs. You know,
Ladanian Thomason didn't play on a playoff game in which
he hurt his knee. Meanwhile, Philip Rivers, same ANFC championship,
was playing with the tour d a c L. You know,
they had the flukey thing when they lost the Patriots
on a fourteen win season. Like They've had a lot
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of things go against them that are not the fault
of Philip Rivers. That didn't allow him to have the
postseason success that Eli Manning had. And considering they were
taking in the same draft, they're often compared, and you know,
I think he's equally, if not in many ways, a
better quarterback than Eli. Eli just had those two Super
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Bowl championship runs. And I add to that that while
he is going to become a high school coach whenever
he stops playing football, if he would become a broadcaster,
he would be in the Tony Romo variety or maybe
even better, maybe even better possibly if he decided to
become a broadcaster. So I am full Philip Rivers fan.
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On the other hand, I know as a fan of
the Chargers, as somebody who knows people within the Chargers,
they had the honest belief that if they had even
Tyrod Taylor last year as their starter, if they didn't
feel compelled to have to start Philip Rivers, they would
have been a playoff team, maybe even a super Bowl team,
because his inefficiency, his turnovers, his lack of mobility hurt
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them in so many facets. He hurt them, He didn't
help them set You know, look, he's It was described
to me that Philip Rivers was always a bad athlete,
then he tours a c L, then he got old.
And the trend in the NFL isn't necessarily for Lamar
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Jackson types. But you have to be at least Kyle
Allen types or Josh Allen types or Pat Mahomes types,
where you can run, but you can also just Philip
Rivers cannot move well enough for a screen pass game,
let alone to run for a first down. Okay, that said,
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PR was really good last night, but that's not why
they won the game. They won the game because of
the unspoken team. My son was watching the TV today
and there was a ad for the Navy. Dad, what's
the Navy do? It's like, well, the Navy's subs, ships
and airplanes. He's like, wait, the Navy flies airplanes. The
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Navy and the Air Force fire airplanes. Air forces is
a little different than the Air Force is different than
the Navy. But Navy pilots and Air Force pilots a
little bit of rivalry there. It's like, okay, well the
Army do. It's like the Army's more kind of ground defense,
and you know they protect our ports. What do the
Marines do? They're the badasses, right? Special teams are the
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Marines of the NFL. Right, first one's in, the last
one's out. They are kind of the unspoken. They don't
have a they don't have the service academy, they don't
have the sports team. They don't maybe have necessarily the
historic glamour. But but but but the Marines, like you
don't have the Navy seals, you know, the Army rain jers.
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Marines are like, we don't need a breakaway class of us.
We're all badasses, all of us, right, which is what
special teams. Special teams are crazy people. It's always been
crazy people. Guys are just this is how I'm gonna
make it in the league. Is I'm gonna be a
crazy person on special teams. And the Titans special teams
was a disaster between missed field goals, blocked punts, shank punts,
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punt coverage, kickoff coverage. It was an abject disaster. And
Mike Brabel smartly bit his tongue and said, we gotta
be better in all areas. That's because the unspoken area
was the one that let them down. Right, don't get
me wrong, coming off a Veterans Day. Army, you dudes
are awesome. Navy, you guys are awesome. Air Force, you
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guys are awesome. We all know that the Marines always
feel slighted Coastguards like, hey, what about us? I got
your coast Guard, thanks for keeping us safe. But the Marines,
that's the Those guys are awesome and the Titans Marines
let them down last night, the Titans special teams, and
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it hid the fact that the Colts still have some issues. Now,
I love the fact that they're like short yards. Let's
bring in Jacoby Brissette when we get down to the
one yard line. That is kind of the new trend
in the end of if you have a mobile, older quarterback,
let's get somebody so we can play eleven on eleven
football down when we get super super close. Makes sense,
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but like, let's let's not go crazy here, you know,
fourth and one. One of the reasons that those athletic
quarterbacks are so much harder to stop is because when
you have a quarterback who can run, it becomes a
different calculus with how you stop it. If your quarterback
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is Philip Rivers, it's ten on eleven. Your quarterback is
anybody else, it's eleven on eleven. And I heard all this.
Frank Raik had a tough night. Colin plays on fourth
and one. Well, it's a lot harder when your quarterback
is completely immobile, like what he's supposed to do on
Philip Rivers and fourth and one, he's he's slow to
get the ball back to hand it off. Let alone.
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You can't, not like you run a boot, not like
you can run an r p O. You know. So
the Colts won Philip Rivers through for three oh eight
and a touchdown. Jacoby Brisette had the two yard run.
Naim Hims had a hundred fifteen total yards two touchdowns,
and uh, I thought they did a great job of
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getting the ball to Michael Pittman Jr. Who I got
a chance to meet several times here before he left
for the Colts during quarantine. He's gonna be a stud.
He's gonna be a star, great, great kid. And t
Y Hilton, who how long is t Y Hilton did
with the Colts? Doesn't it feel like there was like
Reggie Wayne to t Y Marvin Harrison, Reggie Wyne to
t Y Hilton, And I think that started a decade?
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Go right? So, I mean, but but when the Titans
Trevor Daniels shanks one has one blocked, when Stephen Gostkowski
fails to execute Gostkowski miss is a forty four yarder
and a fifty yard or earlier in the game, and
you have the two bad punts. You can tell me
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all you want about how the Colts proved me wrong.
And Philip Rivers is awesome, and hey, I'll give it
to I like Philip, and there are knights in which
he has it, and that last night he had it.
But three straight drives with disastrous special teams play when
it's your up four, and you have a seventeen yard
shank punt which leads to the touchdown which gives you
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the lead, a block punt which extends the lead, and
a mids forty four yard field goal. That's what That's
the real story of what happened in the game. The
Titans are up four, they're punting a shanka punt, give
up a touchdown. They get the ball back and they
hunt and they have a block return for a touchdown.
They get the ball back, they march a little bit
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down the field, and they miss a forty four yard
field goal. And that, my friends, is that. So I'm
not here to defame Philip Rivers or the Colts offense
or the Colts in general. I said yesterday, I've said
on Twitter except for a long time, I think they're
a quarterback away. And that's not being disrespectful of rivers career,
just where Rivers is now. But they won that game
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because the Titans lost the game with their special teams.
And the special teams is that. It's we talked about
three phases of football. Nobody talks. We just assume that
your special teams will come through because they're all professionals. Alright,
Coming up next, I'm gonna be critical of a star
quarterback in the NFL. For some reason, people are unwilling
to be critical of him. But it's time to tell
the truth about it. I'll do it next. Be sure
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to catch the live edition of The Doug Gottlieb Show
weekdays at three p m. Easter noon Pacific on Fox
Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio WAP. We do
this thing in New Is, we do it in broadcasting.
I think we do in life, where one reputation is
get established, and it's really hard for those established reputations
to be either damaged or helped. Right. It's I'll give
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you the football example. Kirk. When I say Kirk Cousins, right,
you're like, oh, small game. Kirk Cousins can't play well
last year? He played great in some primetime games, did
he not? And you go back two weeks ago and
they kick the crap out of the Green Bay Packers,
Like that's a big game. So we it's really hard
to re establish your reputation, you know. And and part
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of it is like there's just guys we like, and
there's guys that we don't like, and guys that we like,
we give a pass, and guys that we don't like
we find fault with and we ride that fault, you know.
And and I'm I think what's happening in Washington from
the president side is reprehensible that this is not how
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we handle things when you have people that have investigated that,
since there's no substance to it, then you don't call
our elections corrupt. That said, I have been somebody who
like Look, I'll just be honest with you. The a
lot of people who don't like President Trump missed. Some
of the things he did were good. Not every he didn't.
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He didn't terrorize our country for four years, a lot
of lying, a lot of a lot of false statements made,
got it, but not everything was bad. Okay, just like
if you love President Obama, like none everything was good.
But we pick who we like and we don't like,
and we we make those points bigger because of our
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feelings about them, right Like we do that when the
Jordan's and Lebron debates, even when it doesn't make sense.
We we make points that maybe factually correct, but the
reality of them is they lack context. I think we're
doing that with Deshaun Watson, I said earlier in the year,
And just so you know, I mean, I I run
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into this a lot, and I've been doing this a
long time. I find it. I used to find it comical.
Now I'm just like, you're just not even trying when
you get the your basketball guy, Well, Phil Sims is
a good friend of mine, he explained to me a
long time. It's like, look, people can say you're a
basketball guy, but one you call me from my opinion?
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Do you call lots of people for their opinions? Secondly, like,
if you played high level collegiate professional sports, there's a
different level of get it to people who didn't. And
a lot of people who host radio shows, TV shows
didn't play high level sports. And so you're like, well, yes,
I played collegiate and professional basketball. Does that make me
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less educated on football from somebody who didn't play anything
and just says, you know what I mean? But regardless
of which, I'm okay, if you want to say my
expertise is basketball, fine, Uh, my football takes the way
I do it. I watch a ton, I read a ton.
I have more than a handful of people in the
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Nation Football League that I text and call and then
there's kind of a handful of people that that cover
the league that I text and call as well. So
I'm like, hey, I kind of think and I don't
want to say something that one I don't believe in
two that somebody else I trust doesn't. I don't even
want to say something that that somebody who's in the
NFL will go like, well, that's on wrong. Okay. So
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when the when the Texans were owing four, I understood
why they fired Bill O'Brien. But one of the points
which had been made to me and I had seen
and saw and asked, was is Deshaun Watson absolute playing
beyond how much of it is Bill O'Brien? How much
of it is the team not buy in? Is there
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any portion of their slow start and the way they
look that you're Deshaun Watson isn't as good as his
reputation with Lesia belief And again this is a lot
like Philip Rivers love Deshaan Watson. His toughness is remarkable.
Remember to collapse lung and instead of taking a game
off in Jacksonville two years ago, You're like, drive me
in a van and I'll go play there myself. Last
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year it gets poked in the eye and still throws
a touchdown pass Like, dude's a warrior, he's a competitor,
he's a winner, but he's not as good as his
reputation would lead you to believe. Case in point, Mike
Sando rights for the Athletic he did his quarterback tears
and Deshaun Watson is a lower tier that maybe people thought.
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And here's a quote from an NFL defensive coordinator. He's
definitely gotten better, but I don't feel like he's a
guy that can totally carry a team. We're like, oh
my god, you gotta worry about him. The mobility after
breaks down. He can really run and hurt you. But
as far as your pure passer, he's not Tier one.
Yet another NFL talent evaluated. When you watch him, you
see elite toughness agreed, you see elite leadership agreed, But
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you don't see elite accuracy, a guy who gets the
ball out quick. As an outsider a fan, you look
at and say, oh, he's scrambling around, he makes the throw.
He's dynamite. As an evaluator, you're like, why didn't he
get out of that earlier? Russell Wilson scrambles and makes
tremendous decisions because he knows where guys are gonna be,
and he makes the great throw and the critical throws.
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Deshaun Watson looked surprised when he scrambles, and then he's not.
He's scrambling to find somebody, not necessarily having an idea
of what he is going to try and get. That's
the difference to me. Again, we like DeShawn Watson. He's
not a bum. He's Houston. Doesn't need a quarterback. Okay,
but he won a national championship a little bit like
Carmel Anthony won a nation championship at Syracuse and people
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for a long time while he's a winner, look you what,
it's Syracuse. I actually think Deshaun Watson is a winner.
But he is not Russell. He is not Kyler in
terms of accuracy he is. He is not Aaron Rodgers.
He is not Pat Mahomes Drew Brees. So but you
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know in the guys that move around, he's not at
that level. He said, notch below and feels like because
we all like him because he's tougher than a two
dollar steak. Everything was Bill O'Brien's fault. Everything was traded away,
DeAndre Hopkins, everything was anybody but Deshaun Watson's fault. And hey,
maybe Deshaun Watson's is just not as good as his
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reputation because we all like Deshaun Watson, so we're willing
to give him a little bit of a pass when
he's not as good as we thought he should be.
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Doug
Gottlieb Show weekdays at three p m. Easter noon Pacific.
So is Rick Venturi covers the uh Indianapolis Colts was
the rest of the nash Football League is a long
time former NFL head coach kind of have to spend
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some time of this year on The Doug Gottlieb Show
on Fox Sports Radio. Coach, how are you hey, I'm
doing really well, dog. It's a sunshiny day in Indianapolis,
which is very appropriate for you know, for that fine
ball game last night. Uh look I and and again.
It is like Friend of Court with Philip Rivers. I
love Philip Rivers is a guy. I think he could
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be a star in broadcas pasting and he's a Hall
of Fame quarterback. But you know, he didn't have a
good year last year with the Chargers, and he's had
um an up and down year this year. I don't
want to take away from how well he played last night,
But isn't it more appropriate to people who didn't watch
the game to say, like the Titans special teams or
the Colts special teams, but one of the Titans special
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teams is what lost that game and helped win that
game for the Colts. That fair? Yeah, that is that
is absolutely fair? You know, And and this happens a
lot in the NFL. You know, I've I've been in
it for so many years, and you know, you'll you'll
see the fourth quarter get away from a team. You'll
look at the box score and it appears that you
routed a team that there was a tremendous uh route.
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But there was a five minute period of that game.
A matter of fact, with five minutes to go in
the third quarter. Uh, the Titans held a seventeen thirteen lead.
Uh and uh we we missed the fourth and one
down inside there they bumped out with two first downs
and probably the turnaround play of the game, which people
don't even remember now, is Autry sack of Tannehill on
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third and one, which forced the first punt of which
he shanked it. We go down and score. We stopped
him the next time. We blocked the kick and score in.
The game goes from seventeen thirteen to twenty seven seventeen
and all of a sudden, in you know, within a
five minute span, uh, with two absolutely atrocious fourth sounds
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by them, the game totally changes and then the Colts takeover.
It was very much like Detroit, uh two weeks ago.
I mean, they're they're ready to win the game and
Darius Leonard strips it out there, so um, you know,
so again it was. It ended up being a team victory,
but it was a five minute disaster. Plus if you
had the missing of the field goal, that's really three
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folk pause. But this team is has been solid. It's
a it's a very elite special teams operation. Chris Ballard
has done a great job of putting a roster together
here and building a team, and that really shows at
the bottom of the roster on those special teams issues. Uh. Defensively,
this is night and day from a year ago. This
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is a team that you know has really picked up
its play. Uh. Eber Fluss has done a good job.
We're talented, we're playing more aggressive, and you know, we're
in the top five. Last year we were ended up
at the end of the year bad And you're right.
I mean, Philip has been erratic, but he's brought something
to this team that it didn't have. This team relied
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on a stodgy running game and you just can't win
that way. You're gonna you'll make a lot of yards
and you'll be seven and nine. And he's brought a
kind of a different kind of leadership, kind of that
you know, that hard nose, challenging type leadership, which I
think has been good. He's brought a much better passing game.
It's a quick release game. The biggest thing with Rivers,
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and this happened last night. Our offensive line did a
superior are your job of protection last night and probably
had one of its better run blocking nights, although that
hasn't been great. But if rhythm, If if Philip right
now is in rhythm, if he can stay in rhythm
with the particularly the quick rhythm stuff, getting rid of
its sprand the ball around, particularly if he gets a
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lot of his own coverage on defense, then he plays
at a very very high level. His problem, where the
erratic part of it comes is in defenses that can
get up and challenge us and and press us and
then bring the pressure, you know, because he's not gonna escape.
And if he gets on that back foot and uh,
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and he doesn't have that under him, then that's when
the bad news come. A lot of it came last year.
We've seen it in spots, but overall, overall, it's been
it's been. It's been better than it's been worse. Uh,
Doug Ota show here on Fox Sports Radio. Rick, your
expertise is on the defensive side of football, but you're
you know, even a coach for your coach for twenty
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five years in college in the pros in Canada. UM,
the young running back Jonathan Taylor is a potential star,
but he's got a fumbling problem. Is that you've done
this a long time? How fixable is that? Oh? I
think it's fix a ball. You know, he's he's had one.
He had a he had fumbles at Wisconsin, but he
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also was such a high volume player. Um, he's only
had one since he's played this year. UM, and that
was that was actually a great strip by Peter's a
week ago in the Baltimore game. I think it's absolutely
physical with him and Tom Rathman. Uh is one of
the elite running back coaches really of all times, and
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he tends to really max out those players. If you
look at our running back corps, UH and Frank does
a really good job of this. He'll he'll make sure
that in his original scripting in the game that all
the backs touched the ball. And then when he gets
a field for someone, Uh, then that guy kind of
takes over. Two weeks ago, it was Wilkins. And last night,
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of course, Hines was on fire and basically he fed
him the rock. And one thing I will say, and
this will help Rivers going forward. Two things he emerged
last night that will really help. And first of all,
Hines has becoming a nightmare matchup for people, whether he's
out of the cylinder. In the cylinder, he's a throwback
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dug to the old days um in the early eighties
when I coach, when everybody had that great nickelback receiver
and that's kind of gone the way of the of
the Buffalo. Yes, exactly, very much like Joe Morris, and
he's a guy that you know, he basically turned Brown
every way but loose last night. And Brown is a
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very very good linebacker. Not to disparage him, but he
is a very very tough matchup. When they spread him out, Uh,
he forces the team to show the coverage they can
bring him back in and run it. Uh. He's very
tough around the red zone and probably one of the biggest,
um biggest things last night that could be a real
plus for the Colts going forward, which the national audience
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probably don't have a feel for, is the emergence of Pittman. See.
Pittman was our second round draft pick. He's been banged
up and it's kind of at a slow start, and
he had seven catches last night, and we desperately need
a down field receiver and so that is really something
that could really help us going forward. Yeah, I got
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a chance. Uh. T J. Hushman's odd out here is
like the uh the wide receiver coach for Michael Pittman.
I saw him work out during quarantine and uh, a
great dude and an unbelievable worker who you know. Now
now that he started to kind of figure out and
they figured out how to use him, that the sky
appears appears to be the limit, and then of course
you have uh, you have t Y Hilton, who God,
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he's been doing it forever. It seems like right, um, Uh, coach,
I'm wondering about the defense. I feel like it's a
championship calib or defense. Is there anything missing? What's what's
missing to this defense? Well, you know, I think you're right.
It has made such a drastic improvement. The last five
games of nineteen they just fell apart, and particularly on
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the past coverage part of it. And Chris made some investments.
Of course, he traded his number one draft pick for Buckner.
That's paid big dividends. Uh, not just in Buckner's number,
but he's such a fulcrum in the middle of that
defensive line. He attracts so much attention that you're seeing
guys like Autry having big years again and the Lewis
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kid coming around in Houston. You're seeing those guys make
such an improvement. And basically he took a couple of
guys off the heat who had great years in eighteen
and then struggle in nineteen, and basically their teams let
him go. And that's the first one is Rhodes. Rhodes
has played Uh tremendous here at the right corner opposite
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Kenny Moore. Uh, and he has really been a shutdown.
He's playing like he did in seventeen and eighteen. That's
allowed us to play a lot more Manda Man aggressive.
We were, we were kind of an area zone teams
could pick us apart. We've gotten much more aggressive. Rocky
a Scene is the third corner. He's I do worry
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about him. Um, you know, he's a he's a grabber,
he gets a lot of p I s. He'll make
some plays. That's an area I'm a little concerned with. Uh.
I think our linebacker corps really solid safety. Uh. Maybe
the story of the draft is our third round pick
in black Men, it's safety. Um, so it is a
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pretty pretty solid defense. I would say the biggest thing
is is, like most people, there have been some flat spots.
I thought we had a little hangover, uh to start
the game last night from that great performance against Baltimore
and in Tennessee went down and scored much too easy.
But then you know, we tend to adjust very well
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during the game and come back and play it. But
I I concur with you. I I think they're capable
of being a championship defense. This is the Doug Otlib
Show here on Fox Sports Radio. UH Rip Ventry joining
us UH former head coach of the Colts from a
head coach Northwestern, longtime assistant in college Canada in the
National Football League, and of course you broadcast now for
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the Colts Network. Last thing. Um, how how much carryover
will there be from last night? You know? This is
this is UH, it's a big win, it's a divisional win. UH.
And now you have the weekend off to get healthy.
How much carryover do you think last night's game has?
You know, I just I don't know. I I've always
thought there was a lot more menum in the college
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game than the pro game. I've always looked at the
program pro game as a totally new matchup every week. UM,
you know, uh, you know, a different type of matchup.
Games unfold during the you know, the the play unfolds
during the game. I think this was huge because it
was a psychological lift in that, you know, basically people
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challenged the record in that we you know, we hadn't
beaten anyone that we we couldn't play with anybody tops.
And I'm not saying that that necessarily Tennessee's championship, but
they're legitimate playoff team and so I think that was
a hurdle. Um. You know, there's no question about it
will be up in a bit a week from Sunday
because you've got the Packers coming in who will probably
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be seven and two and you know, in the hunt
for it all, so you know, I I believe the
intensity level will be great. And then the week after
that it's right back with Tennessee. So you know, Frank
does a great job, Doug of keeping these guys grounded,
really keeping him in in one week cansuls and I
don't mean that cliche as he really does that. And
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uh so you know they they're pretty consistent. They don't
have too many haws and too many loaves. Thanks so
much for joining us. I congratuljoy enjoy the weekend of
a win and a beautiful Friday in Anapos and the
win and thanks to me our guest on Fox Sports Radio,
Oh absolutely enjoyed it all right. Rick Van Try joined
his former NFL head coach Colts analyst fresh off the
Colts big win on Thursday Night Football on Fox a
(30:11):
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this is game tire on the Doug Gottlieb Show and
Byron one second, first Tiger Woods and the tea. Just
got the driver. It's power four drive the balls straight
down the middle and ticker lexit. He likes it. It's
gonna go justest into the right side of the fairway.
(30:56):
What are you doing there? We go, there's my mike, Uh,
Doug the game. That's all. That's all right. Jenny Robos
is playing at six today. After you sick? Is that
what you were the last couple nimes? You're sick? I
was what's the word I under the weather would be
a good term to use. Yeah, it's called being sick. Yes,
(31:16):
I do the weather. You get the rona. I did not.
I did take the test. Yes, we should have announced
it like more. You know they got to take the
rectal test, right, No, that's the third one day asked
before I said that one? Oh, do you have a
(31:36):
do time doc anyway, Alright, the game today? Psychic? Alright,
it's because I'm psychic. There's news from the Pack twelve.
Arizona State is not going to be facing Cal tomorrow,
and U c l A in Utah has now been
canceled because of an outbreak within the uge program. There's
(31:58):
some talk that U c l A and Cal could
be playing this weekend. Doug or excuse me, psychic, Well,
conferences allow game changes within forty eight hours in college football. Hope?
So I sure, hope. So I just had an email
from uh, uh was the jarmand the new Uh? Yeah,
(32:18):
the A D? The new A D? Did you did
you get that one? Martin? Martin? Martin Jarmond says, uh,
I share the disapointment felt by our football student athletes, coaches,
blah blah blah blah blah. There's no questions to right decision,
health and safety. We've all said the season is about
remaining flexible and our team will stay ready to play.
How about Cal and played a game yet? Right? There's
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played last weekend? They had something dude pop up positive
now her medwids by the way, get get well HERM.
I mean that's herm is of the age. Although he's
in great health, he's at the age of somebody who
uh would be most in danger with with with COVID
nineteen Do I think that? I hope they played this week?
And if I'm cal, I'm like, let's go, get on
a play, let's go. The game would be played Sun
(33:00):
Day at the Rose Bowl, and there are reports saying
that the Pack twelve is considering that option. Why not? Right, Yeah,
psychic on the heels of the first time in which
the Rose Bowl be empty and people won't blame how
bad the football? What about everybody walking around the Rose Bowl?
Are they going to be affected by the game. Yeah,
it's it's for people who haven't been it not He's
a beautiful area. But remember you have the golf course there,
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park there, and then you have all these different like
trails they're kind of around because it's in a like
a ravine. So that'll be weird, like all those people around,
probably people playing golf. That hasn't that golf course gets
chewed up during football season, had been chewed up this year.
I'm in great shape, psychic. Will other conferences follow the
IVY League's lead and canceling winter sports this year. I
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think the answer is no. Um. Look, the IVY League
has the biggest endowments, which of course goes counter to
the idea of sports making so much money for universities.
But they also have a little bit of disdain for
sports in general, so this a little bit. It's about
alumni and presidents and regaining control all of their universities.
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I understand it's over an abundance of caution, but the
IVY League of all leagues is actually for black Basketball
is best designed for this because in basketball they bust
all their games and they play on a Friday and
a Saturday night, And the only thing that would change
would be you wouldn't have to change venues. Way everybody's
doing it now, and in some of these leagues is like,
you know, Princeton used to go and play um Brown
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one night, then Harvard the next time. Right now you
could just go and play Harvard on back to back nights,
or you can still play the the other way around. UM.
I don't think that people follow suit. I think the
non conference games Mohican son is supposed to host forty
five teams in this bubble for all these different events
I think those are the next If there's the next
hat to follow whatever, that would be the one, alright,
(34:47):
psychic one. More regarding COVID, will the Golden State Warriors
be able to carry out their plan called Operation Dumb
Nation to have all fans tested for COVID? That would
allow them to have capacity this season's not looking to test. Yeah,
though they have ninety percent. Uh uh, it's not it.
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Uh what was Godwin? It's accurate accuracy with his test
and it's a quick result. But I think no, I mean,
like they're in San Francisco. I mean, uh, the the
idea that that Gavin Newstom is gonna let that thing happen.
I don't early in the season. The answer is no.
Do I think by mid season they will? Yes? Yeah,
I mean I look, at some point we're gonna have
some form of vaccine. Uh and in the vaccine, everybody
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doesn't have to have a vaccine order to get hurt immunity.
So yes, I do think at some point they will.
That will take that. They have a good plan, They
have a lot of money. It is a very advanced
city and technologically, and if there's anywhere that can pull
it off, it's the Warriors with their new arena and
with the fact that they've invested eight months in this.
But I don't think right away that will be the case. Psychic.
Will the Lakers trade Kyle Kuzma this shortened off season?
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I believe the answer is yes. He is the one
asset that they have, and while they like his youthful energy,
I kind of think they, you know, I'm not sure
Lebron's bought into to ta Kuzma. I just he had
a tough offseason and didn't seem to improve at the
(36:16):
level and at the highest level. I think you either
have it you don't have it. I think the answer
is yes. Now that the tricky thing is I think
he's repped by Clutch, so that that's where things get
got a little bit tricky. But I think he'll be traded, yes, Psychic.
What two teams are most likely to slip out of
the wild card race in the a f C. I'll
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give you five Ravens, Brown's, Dolphins, Raiders, and Titans. What
to not likely to make it to the postseason? But Ravens, Browns, Dolphins, Raiders,
and Titans. I'm gonna say the Browns and the Raiders.
Browns and the Raiders. All right, Psyche, who's most likely
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to slip out of the wild card race in the NFC?
Just need one team from the Buccaneers, Rams, Cardinals or Bears.
It's the Bears, Bears, sub Bears, our bed They got
no offense, you know, yeah, coach did get there. Uh
and Walter Payton, you would not have any of these
problems with the Bears. Went gonna hire John Harbaugh or
(37:19):
Jim Harbaugh or one of the hard balls or you know,
we'll find a way to get a hardball in there
and we'll be better. All right, Psychic. Finally, does Bryson
the Shambo make the cut at the Masters? Right now
he is on the wrong side of the cut line
projected cut even par He is at plus one new
Remember the cut is. The field is smaller this year,
(37:43):
smaller this year than it has been the past. The
answers now interesting. Alright, this is game time on the
Duck Gottlieb Show. We are we we do this thing
right where um we're looking for dynasties and sports and
then when dynasties end, we we jump ship and we
(38:07):
try and pick it apart like it's a dead carcass
I think all dynasties are unique into themselves, unto themselves.
I think one that has supposedly ended in sports has
a chance of a great rebuild. I'll share that with
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and closer to the draft and getting closer and closer
to free agency. And see it's like we're getting closer
and closer to a couple of these star players being traded.
But before we get to this weekend, let's get to
what we saw last night. If you look in the
box score, it says the Indianapolis Colts had a one
point run in the second half to take a lead
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in the a f C South. The third quarter was
where so much of it changed. It was seventeen to
thirteen Tennessee Titans. The Colts score with about two minutes
and fifty seconds to go at the end of the
third quarter. Name Hinz who is in one of their
new running backs. He's had a great year. On the
subsequent possession, the Titans go three and out and get
(02:41):
a punt blocked by the Innnapolis Colts. So again, if
you're scoring at home or if you're by yourself, it
goes from height to seven seventeen. The Colts drive all
the way down the field when they get the ball
back again after a terrible punt from the Titans, and score,
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and that, as they say, is that that was the
ball game. This was Mike Brabel, head coach of the Titans,
on the loss of the Colts. We have to be better,
and I'll say that in all areas. So we'll look
at what we're doing and you know, try to do
what's best for the team. We always do. We all
have jobs to do and we have to try to
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do them better. Um. I think when you when you
look Philip Rivers was good last night, I'm not. I
want to make sure that when we discussed Philip Rivers
you understand it's like a friend of court. Like I'm
a huge Philip Rivers fan. Okay, I am staunchly in
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the he is a Hall of Famer. His career is
gonna go massively underrated because a couple of playoffs. You know,
Ladanian Thomason didn't play on a playoff game in which
he hurt his knee. Meanwhile, Philip Rivers, same ANFC championship,
was playing with the tour d a c L. You know,
they had the flukey thing when they lost the Patriots
on a fourteen win season. Like They've had a lot
(04:06):
of things go against them that are not the fault
of Philip Rivers. That didn't allow him to have the
postseason success that Eli Manning had. And considering they were
taking in the same draft, they're often compared, and you know,
I think he's equally, if not in many ways, a
better quarterback than Eli. Eli just had those two Super
(04:27):
Bowl championship runs. And I add to that that while
he is going to become a high school coach whenever
he stops playing football, if he would become a broadcaster,
he would be in the Tony Romo variety or maybe
even better, maybe even better possibly if he decided to
become a broadcaster. So I am full Philip Rivers fan.
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On the other hand, I know as a fan of
the Chargers, as somebody who knows people within the Chargers,
they had the honest belief that if they had even
Tyrod Taylor last year as their starter, if they didn't
feel compelled to have to start Philip Rivers, they would
have been a playoff team, maybe even a super Bowl team,
because his inefficiency, his turnovers, his lack of mobility hurt
(05:11):
them in so many facets. He hurt them, He didn't
help them set You know, look, he's It was described
to me that Philip Rivers was always a bad athlete,
then he tours a c L, then he got old.
And the trend in the NFL isn't necessarily for Lamar
(05:32):
Jackson types. But you have to be at least Kyle
Allen types or Josh Allen types or Pat Mahomes types,
where you can run, but you can also just Philip
Rivers cannot move well enough for a screen pass game,
let alone to run for a first down. Okay, that said,
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PR was really good last night, but that's not why
they won the game. They won the game because of
the unspoken team. My son was watching the TV today
and there was a ad for the Navy. Dad, what's
the Navy do? It's like, well, the Navy's subs, ships
and airplanes. He's like, wait, the Navy flies airplanes. The
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Navy and the Air Force fire airplanes. Air forces is
a little different than the Air Force is different than
the Navy. But Navy pilots and Air Force pilots a
little bit of rivalry there. It's like, okay, well the
Army do. It's like the Army's more kind of ground defense,
and you know they protect our ports. What do the
Marines do? They're the badasses, right? Special teams are the
(06:38):
Marines of the NFL. Right, first one's in, the last
one's out. They are kind of the unspoken. They don't
have a they don't have the service academy, they don't
have the sports team. They don't maybe have necessarily the
historic glamour. But but but but the Marines, like you
don't have the Navy seals, you know, the Army rain jers.
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Marines are like, we don't need a breakaway class of us.
We're all badasses, all of us, right, which is what
special teams. Special teams are crazy people. It's always been
crazy people. Guys are just this is how I'm gonna
make it in the league. Is I'm gonna be a
crazy person on special teams. And the Titans special teams
was a disaster between missed field goals, blocked punts, shank punts,
(07:25):
punt coverage, kickoff coverage. It was an abject disaster. And
Mike Brabel smartly bit his tongue and said, we gotta
be better in all areas. That's because the unspoken area
was the one that let them down. Right, don't get
me wrong, coming off a Veterans Day. Army, you dudes
are awesome. Navy, you guys are awesome. Air Force, you
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guys are awesome. We all know that the Marines always
feel slighted Coastguards like, hey, what about us? I got
your coast Guard, thanks for keeping us safe. But the Marines,
that's the Those guys are awesome and the Titans Marines
let them down last night, the Titans special teams, and
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it hid the fact that the Colts still have some issues. Now,
I love the fact that they're like short yards. Let's
bring in Jacoby Brissette when we get down to the
one yard line. That is kind of the new trend
in the end of if you have a mobile, older quarterback,
let's get somebody so we can play eleven on eleven
football down when we get super super close. Makes sense,
(08:32):
but like, let's let's not go crazy here, you know,
fourth and one. One of the reasons that those athletic
quarterbacks are so much harder to stop is because when
you have a quarterback who can run, it becomes a
different calculus with how you stop it. If your quarterback
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is Philip Rivers, it's ten on eleven. Your quarterback is
anybody else, it's eleven on eleven. And I heard all this.
Frank Raik had a tough night. Colin plays on fourth
and one. Well, it's a lot harder when your quarterback
is completely immobile, like what he's supposed to do on
Philip Rivers and fourth and one, he's he's slow to
get the ball back to hand it off. Let alone.
(09:17):
You can't, not like you run a boot, not like
you can run an r p O. You know. So
the Colts won Philip Rivers through for three oh eight
and a touchdown. Jacoby Brisette had the two yard run.
Naim Hims had a hundred fifteen total yards two touchdowns,
and uh, I thought they did a great job of
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getting the ball to Michael Pittman Jr. Who I got
a chance to meet several times here before he left
for the Colts during quarantine. He's gonna be a stud.
He's gonna be a star, great, great kid. And t
Y Hilton, who how long is t Y Hilton did
with the Colts? Doesn't it feel like there was like
Reggie Wayne to t Y Marvin Harrison, Reggie Wyne to
t Y Hilton, And I think that started a decade?
(10:00):
Go right? So, I mean, but but when the Titans
Trevor Daniels shanks one has one blocked, when Stephen Gostkowski
fails to execute Gostkowski miss is a forty four yarder
and a fifty yard or earlier in the game, and
you have the two bad punts. You can tell me
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all you want about how the Colts proved me wrong.
And Philip Rivers is awesome, and hey, I'll give it
to I like Philip, and there are knights in which
he has it, and that last night he had it.
But three straight drives with disastrous special teams play when
it's your up four, and you have a seventeen yard
shank punt which leads to the touchdown which gives you
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the lead, a block punt which extends the lead, and
a mids forty four yard field goal. That's what That's
the real story of what happened in the game. The
Titans are up four, they're punting a shanka punt, give
up a touchdown. They get the ball back and they
hunt and they have a block return for a touchdown.
They get the ball back, they march a little bit
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down the field, and they miss a forty four yard
field goal. And that, my friends, is that. So I'm
not here to defame Philip Rivers or the Colts offense
or the Colts in general. I said yesterday, I've said
on Twitter except for a long time, I think they're
a quarterback away. And that's not being disrespectful of rivers career,
just where Rivers is now. But they won that game
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because the Titans lost the game with their special teams.
And the special teams is that. It's we talked about
three phases of football. Nobody talks. We just assume that
your special teams will come through because they're all professionals. Alright,
Coming up next, I'm gonna be critical of a star
quarterback in the NFL. For some reason, people are unwilling
to be critical of him. But it's time to tell
the truth about it. I'll do it next. Be sure
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to catch the live edition of The Doug Gottlieb Show
weekdays at three p m. Easter noon Pacific on Fox
Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio WAP. We do
this thing in New Is, we do it in broadcasting.
I think we do in life, where one reputation is
get established, and it's really hard for those established reputations
to be either damaged or helped. Right. It's I'll give
(12:14):
you the football example. Kirk. When I say Kirk Cousins, right,
you're like, oh, small game. Kirk Cousins can't play well
last year? He played great in some primetime games, did
he not? And you go back two weeks ago and
they kick the crap out of the Green Bay Packers,
Like that's a big game. So we it's really hard
to re establish your reputation, you know. And and part
(12:35):
of it is like there's just guys we like, and
there's guys that we don't like, and guys that we like,
we give a pass, and guys that we don't like
we find fault with and we ride that fault, you know.
And and I'm I think what's happening in Washington from
the president side is reprehensible that this is not how
(12:56):
we handle things when you have people that have investigated that,
since there's no substance to it, then you don't call
our elections corrupt. That said, I have been somebody who
like Look, I'll just be honest with you. The a
lot of people who don't like President Trump missed. Some
of the things he did were good. Not every he didn't.
(13:17):
He didn't terrorize our country for four years, a lot
of lying, a lot of a lot of false statements made,
got it, but not everything was bad. Okay, just like
if you love President Obama, like none everything was good.
But we pick who we like and we don't like,
and we we make those points bigger because of our
(13:39):
feelings about them, right Like we do that when the
Jordan's and Lebron debates, even when it doesn't make sense.
We we make points that maybe factually correct, but the
reality of them is they lack context. I think we're
doing that with Deshaun Watson, I said earlier in the year,
And just so you know, I mean, I I run
(14:00):
into this a lot, and I've been doing this a
long time. I find it. I used to find it comical.
Now I'm just like, you're just not even trying when
you get the your basketball guy, Well, Phil Sims is
a good friend of mine, he explained to me a
long time. It's like, look, people can say you're a
basketball guy, but one you call me from my opinion?
(14:21):
Do you call lots of people for their opinions? Secondly, like,
if you played high level collegiate professional sports, there's a
different level of get it to people who didn't. And
a lot of people who host radio shows, TV shows
didn't play high level sports. And so you're like, well, yes,
I played collegiate and professional basketball. Does that make me
(14:42):
less educated on football from somebody who didn't play anything
and just says, you know what I mean? But regardless
of which, I'm okay, if you want to say my
expertise is basketball, fine, Uh, my football takes the way
I do it. I watch a ton, I read a ton.
I have more than a handful of people in the
(15:03):
Nation Football League that I text and call and then
there's kind of a handful of people that that cover
the league that I text and call as well. So
I'm like, hey, I kind of think and I don't
want to say something that one I don't believe in
two that somebody else I trust doesn't. I don't even
want to say something that that somebody who's in the
NFL will go like, well, that's on wrong. Okay. So
(15:28):
when the when the Texans were owing four, I understood
why they fired Bill O'Brien. But one of the points
which had been made to me and I had seen
and saw and asked, was is Deshaun Watson absolute playing
beyond how much of it is Bill O'Brien? How much
of it is the team not buy in? Is there
(15:50):
any portion of their slow start and the way they
look that you're Deshaun Watson isn't as good as his
reputation with Lesia belief And again this is a lot
like Philip Rivers love Deshaan Watson. His toughness is remarkable.
Remember to collapse lung and instead of taking a game
off in Jacksonville two years ago, You're like, drive me
in a van and I'll go play there myself. Last
(16:10):
year it gets poked in the eye and still throws
a touchdown pass Like, dude's a warrior, he's a competitor,
he's a winner, but he's not as good as his
reputation would lead you to believe. Case in point, Mike
Sando rights for the Athletic he did his quarterback tears
and Deshaun Watson is a lower tier that maybe people thought.
(16:30):
And here's a quote from an NFL defensive coordinator. He's
definitely gotten better, but I don't feel like he's a
guy that can totally carry a team. We're like, oh
my god, you gotta worry about him. The mobility after
breaks down. He can really run and hurt you. But
as far as your pure passer, he's not Tier one.
Yet another NFL talent evaluated. When you watch him, you
see elite toughness agreed, you see elite leadership agreed, But
(16:52):
you don't see elite accuracy, a guy who gets the
ball out quick. As an outsider a fan, you look
at and say, oh, he's scrambling around, he makes the throw.
He's dynamite. As an evaluator, you're like, why didn't he
get out of that earlier? Russell Wilson scrambles and makes
tremendous decisions because he knows where guys are gonna be,
and he makes the great throw and the critical throws.
(17:13):
Deshaun Watson looked surprised when he scrambles, and then he's not.
He's scrambling to find somebody, not necessarily having an idea
of what he is going to try and get. That's
the difference to me. Again, we like DeShawn Watson. He's
not a bum. He's Houston. Doesn't need a quarterback. Okay,
but he won a national championship a little bit like
Carmel Anthony won a nation championship at Syracuse and people
(17:34):
for a long time while he's a winner, look you what,
it's Syracuse. I actually think Deshaun Watson is a winner.
But he is not Russell. He is not Kyler in
terms of accuracy he is. He is not Aaron Rodgers.
He is not Pat Mahomes Drew Brees. So but you
(17:54):
know in the guys that move around, he's not at
that level. He said, notch below and feels like because
we all like him because he's tougher than a two
dollar steak. Everything was Bill O'Brien's fault. Everything was traded away,
DeAndre Hopkins, everything was anybody but Deshaun Watson's fault. And hey,
maybe Deshaun Watson's is just not as good as his
(18:16):
reputation because we all like Deshaun Watson, so we're willing
to give him a little bit of a pass when
he's not as good as we thought he should be.
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Doug
Gottlieb Show weekdays at three p m. Easter noon Pacific.
So is Rick Venturi covers the uh Indianapolis Colts was
the rest of the nash Football League is a long
time former NFL head coach kind of have to spend
(18:37):
some time of this year on The Doug Gottlieb Show
on Fox Sports Radio. Coach, how are you hey, I'm
doing really well, dog. It's a sunshiny day in Indianapolis,
which is very appropriate for you know, for that fine
ball game last night. Uh look I and and again.
It is like Friend of Court with Philip Rivers. I
love Philip Rivers is a guy. I think he could
(18:59):
be a star in broadcas pasting and he's a Hall
of Fame quarterback. But you know, he didn't have a
good year last year with the Chargers, and he's had
um an up and down year this year. I don't
want to take away from how well he played last night,
But isn't it more appropriate to people who didn't watch
the game to say, like the Titans special teams or
the Colts special teams, but one of the Titans special
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teams is what lost that game and helped win that
game for the Colts. That fair? Yeah, that is that
is absolutely fair? You know, And and this happens a
lot in the NFL. You know, I've I've been in
it for so many years, and you know, you'll you'll
see the fourth quarter get away from a team. You'll
look at the box score and it appears that you
routed a team that there was a tremendous uh route.
(19:43):
But there was a five minute period of that game.
A matter of fact, with five minutes to go in
the third quarter. Uh, the Titans held a seventeen thirteen lead.
Uh and uh we we missed the fourth and one
down inside there they bumped out with two first downs
and probably the turnaround play of the game, which people
don't even remember now, is Autry sack of Tannehill on
(20:07):
third and one, which forced the first punt of which
he shanked it. We go down and score. We stopped
him the next time. We blocked the kick and score in.
The game goes from seventeen thirteen to twenty seven seventeen
and all of a sudden, in you know, within a
five minute span, uh, with two absolutely atrocious fourth sounds
(20:30):
by them, the game totally changes and then the Colts takeover.
It was very much like Detroit, uh two weeks ago.
I mean, they're they're ready to win the game and
Darius Leonard strips it out there, so um, you know,
so again it was. It ended up being a team victory,
but it was a five minute disaster. Plus if you
had the missing of the field goal, that's really three
(20:52):
folk pause. But this team is has been solid. It's
a it's a very elite special teams operation. Chris Ballard
has done a great job of putting a roster together
here and building a team, and that really shows at
the bottom of the roster on those special teams issues. Uh. Defensively,
this is night and day from a year ago. This
(21:12):
is a team that you know has really picked up
its play. Uh. Eber Fluss has done a good job.
We're talented, we're playing more aggressive, and you know, we're
in the top five. Last year we were ended up
at the end of the year bad And you're right.
I mean, Philip has been erratic, but he's brought something
to this team that it didn't have. This team relied
(21:35):
on a stodgy running game and you just can't win
that way. You're gonna you'll make a lot of yards
and you'll be seven and nine. And he's brought a
kind of a different kind of leadership, kind of that
you know, that hard nose, challenging type leadership, which I
think has been good. He's brought a much better passing game.
It's a quick release game. The biggest thing with Rivers,
(21:56):
and this happened last night. Our offensive line did a
superior are your job of protection last night and probably
had one of its better run blocking nights, although that
hasn't been great. But if rhythm, If if Philip right
now is in rhythm, if he can stay in rhythm
with the particularly the quick rhythm stuff, getting rid of
its sprand the ball around, particularly if he gets a
(22:18):
lot of his own coverage on defense, then he plays
at a very very high level. His problem, where the
erratic part of it comes is in defenses that can
get up and challenge us and and press us and
then bring the pressure, you know, because he's not gonna escape.
And if he gets on that back foot and uh,
(22:38):
and he doesn't have that under him, then that's when
the bad news come. A lot of it came last year.
We've seen it in spots, but overall, overall, it's been
it's been. It's been better than it's been worse. Uh,
Doug Ota show here on Fox Sports Radio. Rick, your
expertise is on the defensive side of football, but you're
you know, even a coach for your coach for twenty
(23:01):
five years in college in the pros in Canada. UM,
the young running back Jonathan Taylor is a potential star,
but he's got a fumbling problem. Is that you've done
this a long time? How fixable is that? Oh? I
think it's fix a ball. You know, he's he's had one.
He had a he had fumbles at Wisconsin, but he
(23:21):
also was such a high volume player. Um, he's only
had one since he's played this year. UM, and that
was that was actually a great strip by Peter's a
week ago in the Baltimore game. I think it's absolutely
physical with him and Tom Rathman. Uh is one of
the elite running back coaches really of all times, and
(23:42):
he tends to really max out those players. If you
look at our running back corps, UH and Frank does
a really good job of this. He'll he'll make sure
that in his original scripting in the game that all
the backs touched the ball. And then when he gets
a field for someone, Uh, then that guy kind of
takes over. Two weeks ago, it was Wilkins. And last night,
(24:03):
of course, Hines was on fire and basically he fed
him the rock. And one thing I will say, and
this will help Rivers going forward. Two things he emerged
last night that will really help. And first of all,
Hines has becoming a nightmare matchup for people, whether he's
out of the cylinder. In the cylinder, he's a throwback
(24:23):
dug to the old days um in the early eighties
when I coach, when everybody had that great nickelback receiver
and that's kind of gone the way of the of
the Buffalo. Yes, exactly, very much like Joe Morris, and
he's a guy that you know, he basically turned Brown
every way but loose last night. And Brown is a
(24:45):
very very good linebacker. Not to disparage him, but he
is a very very tough matchup. When they spread him out, Uh,
he forces the team to show the coverage they can
bring him back in and run it. Uh. He's very
tough around the red zone and probably one of the biggest,
um biggest things last night that could be a real
plus for the Colts going forward, which the national audience
(25:08):
probably don't have a feel for, is the emergence of Pittman. See.
Pittman was our second round draft pick. He's been banged
up and it's kind of at a slow start, and
he had seven catches last night, and we desperately need
a down field receiver and so that is really something
that could really help us going forward. Yeah, I got
(25:30):
a chance. Uh. T J. Hushman's odd out here is
like the uh the wide receiver coach for Michael Pittman.
I saw him work out during quarantine and uh, a
great dude and an unbelievable worker who you know. Now
now that he started to kind of figure out and
they figured out how to use him, that the sky
appears appears to be the limit, and then of course
you have uh, you have t Y Hilton, who God,
(25:51):
he's been doing it forever. It seems like right, um, Uh, coach,
I'm wondering about the defense. I feel like it's a
championship calib or defense. Is there anything missing? What's what's
missing to this defense? Well, you know, I think you're right.
It has made such a drastic improvement. The last five
games of nineteen they just fell apart, and particularly on
(26:12):
the past coverage part of it. And Chris made some investments.
Of course, he traded his number one draft pick for Buckner.
That's paid big dividends. Uh, not just in Buckner's number,
but he's such a fulcrum in the middle of that
defensive line. He attracts so much attention that you're seeing
guys like Autry having big years again and the Lewis
(26:34):
kid coming around in Houston. You're seeing those guys make
such an improvement. And basically he took a couple of
guys off the heat who had great years in eighteen
and then struggle in nineteen, and basically their teams let
him go. And that's the first one is Rhodes. Rhodes
has played Uh tremendous here at the right corner opposite
(26:55):
Kenny Moore. Uh, and he has really been a shutdown.
He's playing like he did in seventeen and eighteen. That's
allowed us to play a lot more Manda Man aggressive.
We were, we were kind of an area zone teams
could pick us apart. We've gotten much more aggressive. Rocky
a Scene is the third corner. He's I do worry
(27:17):
about him. Um, you know, he's a he's a grabber,
he gets a lot of p I s. He'll make
some plays. That's an area I'm a little concerned with. Uh.
I think our linebacker corps really solid safety. Uh. Maybe
the story of the draft is our third round pick
in black Men, it's safety. Um, so it is a
(27:38):
pretty pretty solid defense. I would say the biggest thing
is is, like most people, there have been some flat spots.
I thought we had a little hangover, uh to start
the game last night from that great performance against Baltimore
and in Tennessee went down and scored much too easy.
But then you know, we tend to adjust very well
(27:58):
during the game and come back and play it. But
I I concur with you. I I think they're capable
of being a championship defense. This is the Doug Otlib
Show here on Fox Sports Radio. UH Rip Ventry joining
us UH former head coach of the Colts from a
head coach Northwestern, longtime assistant in college Canada in the
National Football League, and of course you broadcast now for
(28:20):
the Colts Network. Last thing. Um, how how much carryover
will there be from last night? You know? This is
this is UH, it's a big win, it's a divisional win. UH.
And now you have the weekend off to get healthy.
How much carryover do you think last night's game has?
You know, I just I don't know. I I've always
thought there was a lot more menum in the college
(28:42):
game than the pro game. I've always looked at the
program pro game as a totally new matchup every week. UM,
you know, uh, you know, a different type of matchup.
Games unfold during the you know, the the play unfolds
during the game. I think this was huge because it
was a psychological lift in that, you know, basically people
(29:04):
challenged the record in that we you know, we hadn't
beaten anyone that we we couldn't play with anybody tops.
And I'm not saying that that necessarily Tennessee's championship, but
they're legitimate playoff team and so I think that was
a hurdle. Um. You know, there's no question about it
will be up in a bit a week from Sunday
because you've got the Packers coming in who will probably
(29:26):
be seven and two and you know, in the hunt
for it all, so you know, I I believe the
intensity level will be great. And then the week after
that it's right back with Tennessee. So you know, Frank
does a great job, Doug of keeping these guys grounded,
really keeping him in in one week cansuls and I
don't mean that cliche as he really does that. And
(29:48):
uh so you know they they're pretty consistent. They don't
have too many haws and too many loaves. Thanks so
much for joining us. I congratuljoy enjoy the weekend of
a win and a beautiful Friday in Anapos and the
win and thanks to me our guest on Fox Sports Radio,
Oh absolutely enjoyed it all right. Rick Van Try joined
his former NFL head coach Colts analyst fresh off the
Colts big win on Thursday Night Football on Fox a
(30:11):
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(30:32):
this is game tire on the Doug Gottlieb Show and
Byron one second, first Tiger Woods and the tea. Just
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(30:56):
What are you doing there? We go, there's my mike, Uh,
Doug the game. That's all. That's all right. Jenny Robos
is playing at six today. After you sick? Is that
what you were the last couple nimes? You're sick? I
was what's the word I under the weather would be
a good term to use. Yeah, it's called being sick. Yes,
(31:16):
I do the weather. You get the rona. I did not.
I did take the test. Yes, we should have announced
it like more. You know they got to take the
rectal test, right, No, that's the third one day asked
before I said that one? Oh, do you have a
(31:36):
do time doc anyway, Alright, the game today? Psychic? Alright,
it's because I'm psychic. There's news from the Pack twelve.
Arizona State is not going to be facing Cal tomorrow,
and U c l A in Utah has now been
canceled because of an outbreak within the uge program. There's
(31:58):
some talk that U c l A and Cal could
be playing this weekend. Doug or excuse me, psychic, Well,
conferences allow game changes within forty eight hours in college football. Hope?
So I sure, hope. So I just had an email
from uh, uh was the jarmand the new Uh? Yeah,
(32:18):
the A D? The new A D? Did you did
you get that one? Martin? Martin? Martin Jarmond says, uh,
I share the disapointment felt by our football student athletes, coaches,
blah blah blah blah blah. There's no questions to right decision,
health and safety. We've all said the season is about
remaining flexible and our team will stay ready to play.
How about Cal and played a game yet? Right? There's
(32:39):
played last weekend? They had something dude pop up positive
now her medwids by the way, get get well HERM.
I mean that's herm is of the age. Although he's
in great health, he's at the age of somebody who
uh would be most in danger with with with COVID
nineteen Do I think that? I hope they played this week?
And if I'm cal, I'm like, let's go, get on
a play, let's go. The game would be played Sun
(33:00):
Day at the Rose Bowl, and there are reports saying
that the Pack twelve is considering that option. Why not? Right, Yeah,
psychic on the heels of the first time in which
the Rose Bowl be empty and people won't blame how
bad the football? What about everybody walking around the Rose Bowl?
Are they going to be affected by the game. Yeah,
it's it's for people who haven't been it not He's
a beautiful area. But remember you have the golf course there,
(33:20):
park there, and then you have all these different like
trails they're kind of around because it's in a like
a ravine. So that'll be weird, like all those people around,
probably people playing golf. That hasn't that golf course gets
chewed up during football season, had been chewed up this year.
I'm in great shape, psychic. Will other conferences follow the
IVY League's lead and canceling winter sports this year. I
(33:40):
think the answer is no. Um. Look, the IVY League
has the biggest endowments, which of course goes counter to
the idea of sports making so much money for universities.
But they also have a little bit of disdain for
sports in general, so this a little bit. It's about
alumni and presidents and regaining control all of their universities.
(34:01):
I understand it's over an abundance of caution, but the
IVY League of all leagues is actually for black Basketball
is best designed for this because in basketball they bust
all their games and they play on a Friday and
a Saturday night, And the only thing that would change
would be you wouldn't have to change venues. Way everybody's
doing it now, and in some of these leagues is like,
you know, Princeton used to go and play um Brown
(34:25):
one night, then Harvard the next time. Right now you
could just go and play Harvard on back to back nights,
or you can still play the the other way around. UM.
I don't think that people follow suit. I think the
non conference games Mohican son is supposed to host forty
five teams in this bubble for all these different events
I think those are the next If there's the next
hat to follow whatever, that would be the one, alright,
(34:47):
psychic one. More regarding COVID, will the Golden State Warriors
be able to carry out their plan called Operation Dumb
Nation to have all fans tested for COVID? That would
allow them to have capacity this season's not looking to test. Yeah,
though they have ninety percent. Uh uh, it's not it.
(35:09):
Uh what was Godwin? It's accurate accuracy with his test
and it's a quick result. But I think no, I mean,
like they're in San Francisco. I mean, uh, the the
idea that that Gavin Newstom is gonna let that thing happen.
I don't early in the season. The answer is no.
Do I think by mid season they will? Yes? Yeah,
I mean I look, at some point we're gonna have
some form of vaccine. Uh and in the vaccine, everybody
(35:32):
doesn't have to have a vaccine order to get hurt immunity.
So yes, I do think at some point they will.
That will take that. They have a good plan, They
have a lot of money. It is a very advanced
city and technologically, and if there's anywhere that can pull
it off, it's the Warriors with their new arena and
with the fact that they've invested eight months in this.
But I don't think right away that will be the case. Psychic.
Will the Lakers trade Kyle Kuzma this shortened off season?
(35:55):
I believe the answer is yes. He is the one
asset that they have, and while they like his youthful energy,
I kind of think they, you know, I'm not sure
Lebron's bought into to ta Kuzma. I just he had
a tough offseason and didn't seem to improve at the
(36:16):
level and at the highest level. I think you either
have it you don't have it. I think the answer
is yes. Now that the tricky thing is I think
he's repped by Clutch, so that that's where things get
got a little bit tricky. But I think he'll be traded, yes, Psychic.
What two teams are most likely to slip out of
the wild card race in the a f C. I'll
(36:37):
give you five Ravens, Brown's, Dolphins, Raiders, and Titans. What
to not likely to make it to the postseason? But Ravens, Browns, Dolphins, Raiders,
and Titans. I'm gonna say the Browns and the Raiders.
Browns and the Raiders. All right, Psyche, who's most likely
(36:59):
to slip out of the wild card race in the NFC?
Just need one team from the Buccaneers, Rams, Cardinals or Bears.
It's the Bears, Bears, sub Bears, our bed They got
no offense, you know, yeah, coach did get there. Uh
and Walter Payton, you would not have any of these
problems with the Bears. Went gonna hire John Harbaugh or
(37:19):
Jim Harbaugh or one of the hard balls or you know,
we'll find a way to get a hardball in there
and we'll be better. All right, Psychic. Finally, does Bryson
the Shambo make the cut at the Masters? Right now
he is on the wrong side of the cut line
projected cut even par He is at plus one new
Remember the cut is. The field is smaller this year,
(37:43):
smaller this year than it has been the past. The
answers now interesting. Alright, this is game time on the
Duck Gottlieb Show. We are we we do this thing
right where um we're looking for dynasties and sports and
then when dynasties end, we we jump ship and we
(38:07):
try and pick it apart like it's a dead carcass
I think all dynasties are unique into themselves, unto themselves.
I think one that has supposedly ended in sports has
a chance of a great rebuild. I'll share that with
the next in The Dug Out Lip Show, Fox Sport
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