Locked On Colts - Daily Podcast On The Indianapolis Colts - ALL-PRO: Colts' Jonathan Taylor, Tyler Warren Headline SumerSports' Awards (w/ Sam Bruchhaus)

Starting point is 00:00:00 Sumer Sports names four Colts to their mid-season all-pro team. Let's get to it. You are Locked-on Colts, your daily Indianapolis Colts podcast. Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Hello, everyone. My name is Zach Hicks, your resident film nerd of horseshoe huddle.com. I'm joined, as always, by Jake Arthur, our boots on the ground for roundtable sports,

Starting point is 00:00:32 and also joined by a special guest, Sam Brooke House of Sumer Sports, to tell us all about Sumer Sports naming Jonathan Taylor, Quentin Nelson, Tyler Warren, and Bairnhart Rhyman to their mid-season All-Pro team. Before we jump into that, today's episode is brought to you by FanDuel. Right now, new customers can bet just $5.

Starting point is 00:00:49 And if your first bet wins, you'll get $300 in bonus bets to use across the app. And guys, we have a fun show planned for you. We're going to dive into Sumer Sports. all pro rankings for the Colts again for Colts making this list probably four more than we thought coming into the year with where our expectations were for this team so we're going to talk about Jonathan Taylor Tyler Warren and the two offensive linemen but Sam you guys are probably doing a little bit different than some of the national media guys when it comes to all pros and midseason all pros where a lot of guys it's kind of off reputation or gut feeling and stuff how do you guys like calculate your all pro teams especially like for like the midseason here for the Colts. Right. So at Sumer Sports, we specialize in data. And that's what we want to traffic in. We want to try to get as close to a considered process. I'm not going to call it objective, but the process is laid forth and it's followed the same time. So here's what we do.

Starting point is 00:01:46 We take the tracking data that you may see on an Amazon Prime broadcast. They've been integrating it into the Madden broadcast on NBC as well. And we take that tracking data going back to 26. So getting close to a decade of every 10th of a second of every play going back. At that point, we train models to try to understand what's important about a play and the relationships between the players on those plays in order to make an evaluation of how a player is making, how a player is playing every 10th of a second. And so when you start rolling those up to a season level, you want to make sure you put them in context. And given that we have over 400 years of scouting experience and several ex-general managers on our staff at Sumer Sports as well, we've kind of blended the language of scouting with the language of data. So you're going to hear me say a lot of words like player of the year, all pro, pro bowler.

Starting point is 00:02:42 Those are our signifiers for blue chip performances. Then we go into the starter level performances. These are the guys who should be at the top of the depth chart, regardless of what team they're on. And then we start getting into those substandard rotational backup. guys who you'll see either on the second position of the depth chart or jumping in and out. And so when we put it in that, what the data is really trying to do is, is not necessarily trying to say that this player is bad or this player is good. What we're trying to do is score what they have done this year, put it in context of how

Starting point is 00:03:14 rare that is going back to 2016, and get a feel based on how they've been used and how much they've been used about how much we can trust that moving forward. So that's really what we're trying to do here. Identify rarity and identify productivity. I was curious. I know when a lot of people look at data, you know, there have been sites that provide that. But how much does like positional value contribute to that?

Starting point is 00:03:41 Because, you know, some guys may lose or win a certain award against another player just based on, well, this position holds a lot more value to the team. So how much does that way into it? So for the purposes of this list, given that it's already split up by position, we didn't necessarily consider any positional value. What we kind of look at in terms of the rarity of a season is within position group. And so a player like Jonathan Taylor,

Starting point is 00:04:09 who's having an excellent season, we'd expect him because typically the player of the years, offense player of the year or running backs or wide receivers, to be in that offense player of the year conversation. At the same time, we'd probably expect a quarterback to win the MVP. piece. So with this rating system in particular, the scoring system, there's not positional value baked in as you would in terms of a contract. But it does do an excellent job of figuring out

Starting point is 00:04:36 what the important roles for a player are and how well a player is doing at those. Awesome. Awesome. Speaking of Jonathan Taylor and speaking of rarity, every side I look at, including your guy's site, the EPA per play when it comes to the Colts rushing offense this year is completely absurd. And you mentioned going back to 2016. Everything I've seen from going back to 2016, this doubles most rushing offenses in EPA per play. And the Colts are doing it without really having too much production from the quarterback position in the running game as well. Like they're getting a little bit from Jones, but a lot of it is Jonathan Taylor in the ground game. So just how rare and how special has this season been for Taylor? So to put it in

Starting point is 00:05:15 context of EPA per rush, which is expected points added. And what expected points added is trying to do is just put yards in context. It's trying to say that seven yards on first down is probably more valuable than seven yards on third and 10. And so when we start to look at that in the context or the Colts, it's absolutely absurd. Right now, they're at about 0.2 expected points added per play. For context, that's typically centered around 0. So it's literally like 20. It's like a crazy number. Second in the league is the bills at around 0.09. And this is the highest by a lot going back to 2022. So you look at what they're able to do and you try to break this down and a tribute credit down the line. And a lot of it goes to Jonathan Taylor.

Starting point is 00:06:05 Right now, he is one of the few players who is having a certified award worthy offensive player of the year level performance through the weeks that the Colts have played. You look at basically anything. You look at our sumers scores, which are trying to track him and figure out how he is operating in space. You look at expected points added per rush. You look at rush shards over expected. Basically, any metric you're going to look at, Jonathan Taylor is knocking out of the park.

Starting point is 00:06:32 He's having an excellent season this year and quite literally one of the best seasons that we've seen in the past decade. Yeah, I mean, you look statistically and there's like an albatross between him and everybody else, whether it's like classic, classic statistics or more advanced ones. like when you guys measure it so obviously you got first team all pro second team all pro how big is the gap between jonathan and just the next guy so in terms of sheer rushing right now uh there's not a lot of guys who are performing at that true 99th percentile level and that's why he's up in that stratosphere again like this is one of the best performances we've seen since

Starting point is 00:07:11 2016 the only player who is carrying a load at the running back position and who is probably going to challenge Taylor at the running back position this year is Christian McCaffrey, but he's doing it in a completely and totally different way. He has basically turned himself into a Wes Welker or a Julian Edelman that gets carries. Right now, his target share is at 25.79% in the receiving game. That would be in the top 20 amongst wide receivers. So Christian McCaffrey is having an extremely rare season as well. It's just because he's doing it in the receiving game to offset some of the athleticism knocks that we've seen due to injury in the last couple of years. And that's another thing I want to mention about Jonathan Taylor. We've seen

Starting point is 00:07:55 him be banged up in the past two or three years. Our athletic artificial intelligence team creates models which take every movement that a player makes on the field and tries to predict their 40-yard dash score. We've seen Jonathan Taylor's predicted 40-yard dash score go up this year. And that is extremely rare to see from a veteran running back. So not only is he locked in from an athletic point of view, that has helped him gain a lot of that attribution of this crazy high expected points added per rush. And as a result, he's having just an insane year. Yeah, no, for sure.

Starting point is 00:08:31 We can see it on, like you don't even need any of the AI or anything like that to look into it. We could see it on Sunday. It's just how much faster he looks this season, which like you said, is crazy considering where he was with the ankle injuries the last couple of seasons. One more question I have for you on Jonathan Taylor, though, is the expected yards over, like yards rushing over expected is what I mean to ask about. Like, how do you guys calculate that and how great has Taylor been in that department this year? Yeah. So when you're looking at rush yards over expected, what's basically trying to happen is you're trying to get to a point where you are evaluating how much we expect a running back to get at the point of the carry and then how much he got at the end.

Starting point is 00:09:13 And the reason why is there's not that many run concepts in the National Football League. You know, you got your outside zones, you've got your, you know, gap scheme plays and stuff like that. And so when you really break it down, the point of the handoff is when it's declared to the linebackers and when it's declared to the safeties and the defensive line. And so we can get a reading going back over the thousands and thousands of runs that have happened in the past decade and get a true sense of what a player in. and to a certain degree what the offensive line is adding downstream. This year, he is almost like two-tenths of a yard, a fifth of a yard higher than everyone. His rush yards over-expected per attempt is like 1.62.

Starting point is 00:09:58 Basically that if you're expecting a rush play to get about a yard or about two yards, that basically means if you hand it off to him three times in a row, you're getting a first down or you're getting close enough to do a tush-push. Like that is the level at which he is performing this year. Well, guys, obviously Jonathan Taylor's contributions are pretty rich for the Colts offense, but there is another player who's kind of transformed things as well, and we're going to talk about that in just a moment. If you're still overpaying for wireless, it's time to say yes to saying no.

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Starting point is 00:11:50 and they have bestowed upon the Colts for all pro nominations. A couple first teams, a couple second teams. We just talked about Jonathan Taylor. But now we're going to talk about their offensive rookie of the year and their second team tied end, Tyler Warren. All right, Sam. So it feels like tightens used to take a while to cook a little bit and make a big impact. But in recent years, you're seeing guys go really.

Starting point is 00:12:13 ride in there and do some things. And you've got a guy like Tyler Warren, who as a tight end is your guys as offensive rookie of the year. And a second team all pro probably would be the first team if Trey McBride wasn't taking up such a high volume of Arizona's passing attack. Right. Great highlight about tight ends. Typically when we see them in the draft, it takes, you know, three or four years to get

Starting point is 00:12:38 even a read on how good these guys are. You think of guys like Travis Kelsey, like Shannon Sharp. They didn't make an all pro team until their fourth year in the league. Typically, we see with the wide receiver position, guys will start popping in their second or third team. So tight ends do need a degree of patience. But as you mentioned, and I think it's because teams are starting to commit, including the Colts to a little bit more 12 heavy personnel to try to draw base defenses out and be able to pass down the field as a result.

Starting point is 00:13:06 I think we're starting to see the emergence of some of these young tight ends be able to play. Now, you look at the draft, it's very hard. to figure out which one of those guys is going to be the best. This year, Colston Loveland, who has been fine, but not a true impact player for the Bears, goes ahead of Tyler Warren. You look a couple years ago, Dalton Kincaid, who has been one of the better tight ends in the league,

Starting point is 00:13:27 but he goes above Sam La Porta, who has an all pro level year. So very difficult to figure out which tight-in is going to be good in the draft. You got guys like a Ronde Gadsden who get drafted in the middle rounds. All of a sudden, they're key contributors on teams. So it's difficult to figure. hear out this position. But the Colts hit in Tyler Warren and they hit big time. Right now, the reason why he's our offensive rookie of the year is because he's really the only offensive rookie who is having a true all pro level season, period. On Fandall right now,

Starting point is 00:13:58 he's plus 550 fourth in offensive rookie of the year odds. I think that is very low. I think it's very, especially given, you know, Jackson Darts hurt, there's not a true quarterback in this draft right now that's performing extremely well as we saw with jaden daniels last year i think that if he has a couple of good weeks and cracks a thousand yards and does all this other good stuff it's a real chance that he can win i i don't think that that odd is exactly correct i think he should be a little bit closer to the favorite all that to say the dude is shouldering a major load for this team is leading the team and target share and as a result he's producing a pretty good yards for a route run even if he were operating as a wide receiver as well yeah and one thing i find

Starting point is 00:14:41 about his usage. And I'm curious how this factors in for you guys is he's getting a lot of scheme touches in like the flats area, like a lot of short yardage, go create after the catch. I've likened him a lot to like the way like a Debo Samuel was used in Sanfran a little bit, just in terms of let's just get the ball in this guy's hands. How do you guys factor that in where it's like, you know, maybe most guys would still catch the same amount of balls, but he's creating these yards after the catch. Yeah, you nailed it. Right now he's working at about a 5.51 average depth to target. That's similar to a tight-in, kind of like Cade Otten, but the difference is that expectation layer that is baked into our sumer scores where we know what these plays are

Starting point is 00:15:22 by the time the ball is in Tyler Warren's hands. So we are comparing that to every one of those plays going back to 2016. And that's where that starts to kind of bake in the syntactic sugar that shows that Warren is really doing something above and beyond of what we typically see other tight ends do. And you mentioned it. The yak has been fantastic, his ability to break tackles. And moreover, Shane Steikin's play calling and an ability to create an offense where someone like this can succeed. That was kind of the knock of Tyler Warren going into the draft. Everyone thought that he was a very good player. The question was, was he going to be in an offense in which his skills, which are, you know, he's not the craziest athlete of all time,

Starting point is 00:16:05 And would those skills be in a place where they would be allowed to shine? And with a partnership with Shane Steichen, it's been absolutely great to watch thus far. Now, Sam, here on this show, we have started a little bit of a movement when it comes to Tyler Warren. You know, you mentioned having a head coach that knows how to use the guy. So the fullback has returned to Indy and full force, it seems. They used to try and use it piecemeal with certain tight ends. Tyler Warren seems to be that guy. They move him around a bit.

Starting point is 00:16:33 We are totally in favor of. of making him for for ap an all pro fullback like how how realistic is that in your guys world is there even enough fullback usage across the nfl right now yeah i mean it's always interesting when we go into this all pro stuff because you basically have like three four guys who are true fullbacks and typically it's been a guy like use check who basically is like a slot receiver tied in functionally they're just lining him up in the backfield right um and then you got guys uh like patrick ricard who is like a blocker matlock with the chargers who's a d lineman um and so it gets a little tricky i'd have to look at the exact distribution of

Starting point is 00:17:19 usage because in terms of contracts at least there is a breakdown in the cba of how much you actually have to play to be considered as a fullback but i'd actually push back if i was tyler warren's agent i do not want to get paid like a fullback so i do not want to be on the all pro list as a fullback in fact if i could make an argument from that that tyler warns a wide receiver then then that would probably be better for him and that's really the interesting part about the draft too is like some of these wide receiver two wide receiver threes are being paid at the level of quality starting tight ends uh so it gets a little tricky there i love the movement i want to get him on the all pro list but i think if you were to ask his agent he'd probably

Starting point is 00:18:00 strongly disagree, even though he wants to get him that award, obviously. I'll get him on both. He'll be on my personal all-pro. We'll see what the agent will push back for sure. But one thing I want to pick your mind about, just because it kind of pertains to Warren and also this new thing that we're seeing in the NFL, and especially with Shane Stike, and his whole career, he's been an 11 personnel guy, always 11 personnel all the time. And we were kind of saying when they drafted Tyler Warren, cool, this lets them live in 11 personnel. That has not been the case whatsoever with the Colts this year. they've leaned into 12 they've leaned into 13 sometimes again they're using you know if you want to call it 22 or 21 with Warren in the backfield so what is with this new modern trend I guess of 12 personnel 13 personnel and how the Colts kind of use that with Tyler Warren yeah I think there's a couple pieces to it number one when you're living in 12 or or multiple personnel's at least from the defense's point of view there's more people to have to account

Starting point is 00:18:59 for in both the past and the run game, obviously. And I think they took a seat early on this season, and they've trusted Mo Allie Cox for years to kind of play his specific role. But when you're adding a guy like Tyler Warren, who was known as a good run blocker, in the early season, he was an excellent run blocker. We've seen that kind of tail off, and that's typically how it goes for rookie tight ends in recent weeks to where he's performing at about average right now in terms of run blocking. but you still got to account for that pass side.

Starting point is 00:19:32 And so what the real kind of thing we've seen at Sumer Sports is with the Colts who pass a lot out of 12 just for the record. Like not every team does that. Like the Seahawks, for example, run a ton of 12, 13 other heavy personnel. They got true fullbacks on the field. But they try to open up the pass, but they don't pass a ton. And that's what we kind of saw in the week 11 Rams game, where I really, wanted to kind of open them to open it up despite sam darnold throwing interceptions i think they open it up a little bit more and just kind of have sam darnell you know forget about the four

Starting point is 00:20:06 picks and they end up winning that game down the stretch so number one what the colds are doing is they're putting it out there and they're making teams move into base because you got to do it if you're going to have tyler warren moali cox in the back field you know those guys around and you got to contribute to that run given you got jonathan taylor back there then what they're doing is they're having a a lot of looks that look the same. And that's kind of that Sean McVeigh, I know Stuyken comes from an Anthony Lynn background. Siriani does a lot of this too,

Starting point is 00:20:36 where everything kind of looks the same and you're going to play off of it. So that's kind of the second item. And then the third is Tyler Warren's just playing really well. And it's a real pain to have to attribute for an all pro level playing tied in and an all pro level playing running back. That's been the Kansas City Chiefs formula for a decade now, regardless of who they're running back is kind of you have to account for those guys

Starting point is 00:21:00 and if Danny Dimes is going to play well and hit them then that's going to just cause tons of problems from a scheme perspective not even from a talent perspective for defenses all right guys so the Colts offense has been a well-oiled machine for the vast majority of the year and everyone's going to always tell you it starts up front well sooner they've actually got two Colts offensive linemen on their all pro teams and we're going to talk about those in just a moment. The NBA is back and there's no better place to get in on the action than Fandall, the official's fourth betting partner of the NBA.

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Starting point is 00:22:09 All right, welcome back every dayers. We are talking about Sumer Sports in their midseason all pro teams. You got Jonathan Taylor and Quentin Nelson as the first team members. You got Berenhart Reimann and Tyler Warren as second team members. And we're joined by Sam Bruchhouse of Sumer Sports. And so we're going to get into the offensive line here because Quentin Nelson, I think everyone knows that's, that's, duh, you know, that's a layup. But I think Bernhardt Ryman being, you know, on the second team all pro list, that might even surprise a few Colts fans around here. Because I think with Ryman, I think largely he plays very, very well, but he has, he has some bad spotlight moments, if that makes sense.

Starting point is 00:22:50 So how did you guys land on him being on this list? Yeah, so I think first off, offensive line is, one of the hardest positions to evaluate with just normal stats. And as a result, like, that's part of this running backs movement of, you want to really lock in and try to attribute as much as you can to the offensive line when they're really playing well. And that's what our sumer scores. That's what the tracking data seeks to do.

Starting point is 00:23:17 It really goes back, looks at history, gets a sense of how these offensive linemen have been evaluated in the past, and then moves forward from that. And Bernard Riemann, not only is having a great season, we have him on a second. We have him on our second team. He's really a few points short of having a true protector of the year level season at the left tackle position. He's playing extremely well. And when you see those cavernous gaps that Jonathan Taylor is able to run through, a big reason is the teamwork between Raymond and Nelson and the rest of the offensive line.

Starting point is 00:23:51 But in particular, that power left side of the line that they've been able to. to really take advantage of defenses with. Raymond's done an excellent job. We'll see how it continues, a rough part of the schedule moving forward. This was a spot where I thought he could drop. I still think at this point, he's shown that he's a true impact level starter.

Starting point is 00:24:10 Don't know if it will stick at that all pro level for the rest of season, given you got to face guys like Josh Heinz Allen twice. You got to face Will Anderson twice. You got to go up against Karloftus and Steve Spagnolo in upcoming weeks. And so we'll see how it kind of develops Seahawks defense as well is going to be really interesting. But up until now, he has shown an ability to really perform extremely well and perform extremely consistently as well. So you mentioned some of those like highlight moments.

Starting point is 00:24:39 I think those are getting rare and rare and rare as his career goes on. And now we're getting really consistent play, particularly in the run game. Yeah, no, I completely agree. I'm actually with you with you guys when it comes to Ryman's play this year, especially in the ground game, that left side of the Colts offensive line, Ryman Nelson and Bordellini as well have just been fantastic on that left side. One thing I want to ask you when it came to like the valuation of a player like Ryman, for instance, the Colts offensive scheme is very forgiven to pass blockers in it because they're

Starting point is 00:25:10 in that 12 personnel a lot. It's hard to get true pass rushing sets and a lot of it is working out of play action as well. So how do you guys kind of stack that against other offensive tackles who are more like drop back past sets and stuff like that? Yeah, it's a great highlight. And the great thing about our scores in particular are at the base layer, they're continuous. So they're making a true evaluation, you know, typically centered around zero of like, was this an absolutely outstanding play?

Starting point is 00:25:40 And that's the reason why guys like Pena Sewell or guys like Laramie Tunsell or guys like Garrett Bowles, for example, who has a lot of true pass sets and is basically just asked to sit out there and block lane johnson's another guy who's spiked in this in previous years that's why it kind of separates those two tiers of like the true protector of the year guys and the all pros and the pro bowlers that's kind of the difference but that being said an ability to do to be consistent on those plays over and over and over again does build up over the course of the season awesome now when it comes to quentin nelson he so he started out obviously like you don't get a lot of like highlight reels from offensive linemen like you

Starting point is 00:26:20 with him when he came out his first couple years. But then he, like, dealt with some back injuries. He was banged up a bit and had a couple years there where he wasn't quite where he was at the beginning of his career. But it seems like he's completely turned the clock around lately. Like, what type of level is he truly playing at right now? Because I think it's very hard for fans or just anyone who's not specifically looking at offensive line play to contextualize how that looks for an offensive lineman.

Starting point is 00:26:48 Yeah. So to put in respect, let's just like do some quick math so you got five linemen at depth one on it on all 32 teams and we have this going back till 2016 so there's 10 of those so there's a we've evaluated a lot of guards in the in the past 10 years using this system quinn Nelson is better than 97% of them so like just to put it in you know the old school ABC grading like he's getting close to the A pluses over here and as a result like when when we put that in scouting language when we put that in in the context of contracts and how

Starting point is 00:27:27 the scouts and gms look at that he should be an all pro by all means he should be on one of the and he not only that he would be on an all pro team every year going back as well so it's a true kind of he's a top two guy in this league right now at the left guard position and quite frankly he's a top two guy in the league in at the guard position period he's performing at a level in which he should be one of the highest paid offensive linemen in the league. Which he's going to get that new contract again here in another year. And I'm sure that his agent's going to clip this part of you saying it and bring it right to the negotiation table. And we'll have to pay for that for sure.

Starting point is 00:28:03 But one more thing I want to touch on. And I don't know if you have the numbers in front of you because you're more prepared for just the all pro guys here. But I mentioned Tanner Borderlini a second ago and the year he's had. First year starter, still what, 23 years old, 22 years old playing center. How good has he been this year next to these guys? I know the past blocking has been a little up and down, but in the running game, it's been just phenomenal from what my eyes tell me.

Starting point is 00:28:26 Exactly. We have him at a quality starter level. And just to put this in context, again, currently the Colts have no offensive linemen playing in the bottom two-thirds of the league, according to our sumers course. So like, there's a lot of good stuff going on on a week-to-week basis. Bordellini is our third highest scored player on the Colts offensive line.

Starting point is 00:28:47 Right now, he's playing at about like an 87th percent. if you want to give that a thought. But he's playing extremely well. And moreover, he is ascending. So the curve of his season. And the way we look at this is like week one, how does that compare to week ones? Week one and two, how does that compare to week one and twos and so forth and so on? We're starting to see him ascend to a level that he's a true quality starter.

Starting point is 00:29:12 And he's getting pretty close to the 90th percentile he needs to be an impact level starter as well. So let's continue to watch the Ascension, especially as he's tested against some of these better D-lines. The Seahawks game is going to be the Tanner Bordalini, like true boss-level fight because they got three defensive tackles, Big Cat Williams, Byron Murphy. They're going to send linebackers. They're going to get the edge rushers involved on the inside. That's the true game to watch to see how he's going to play. But he's a true ascendant offensive linemen on an offensive line that's already really good. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:29:46 No, I love that you mentioned the Ascension there. It feels like I sense that Cardinals game, it clicked for him as a run blocker. And just from my film analysis, like, since that game, it has been top-tier run-blocking stuff. I know there's some other guys around the league that have been playing great. But, yeah, that certainly fits in what I've seen on film this year. Yeah, it's a great highlight. We had him playing at that kind of rotational level up until week four, then five, six, seven, eight, nine starts to stack up. And all of a sudden he has a very good season.

Starting point is 00:30:15 Yeah, yeah, I know he's played some great ball. But yeah, I think that's all we have to. Do you have any other questions here for Sam before we get out of here? Yeah, no, before we let you go, what can we plug for you? What should we shout out? Yeah, so go check us out every Wednesday on YouTube at Summersports. Me and Lindsay Rhodes are covering everything in the league this past week. We did the All-Pro list.

Starting point is 00:30:36 You can go check that out on Summersports.com and get some of the more detailed data about these Colts players. Or if you want to look up people who y'all are playing, there's a couple Seahawks guys on there. There's some Texans guys. guys will anderson of course tops the list or excellent player so if you want to get a sense of who to watch on the other side of the ball for some colts opponents go check out out sumersports com summerr sports yeah make sure you guys are checking out of stuff there because i always think the hardest bridge to just the hardest thing that kind of bridge between analytics and the average football fan is just the relaying of data details and data to people and i think you do a great job

Starting point is 00:31:13 with that sam we really appreciate uh your time and and again giving us all that useful information we can kind of back up a lot with our with our film review and stuff like that. So we appreciate your time. And guys, thank you all for listening to Locked on Colts and making us your first listen today and every single day. The NFL season is in full swing for your next listening. Go get a double dose of the locked on NFL podcast. Tyler the Madman Rowland gives you a shot of NFL espresso to start your football day.

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