Locked On Colts - Daily Podcast On The Indianapolis Colts - COLTS SQUAD SHOW: Colts COLLAPSE in K.C. | Indianapolis Suffers Excruciating OT Loss to Chiefs

Episode Date: November 23, 2025

In the most painful loss of the season to date, the Colts blew an 11-point lead in the fourth quarter to fall in Kansas City in overtime. The Squad talks about Indy's excruciating loss, who should take the most blame, plays Studs & Duds, and discuss where the Colts go from here. Find and follow Locked On Colts on your favorite podcast platforms: 🎧 https://lockedonpodcasts.com/podcasts/locked-on-colts/ 📺YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLdpxJspi1hMh5HL7ExpWOQ Give the squad a follow on X/Twitter @Schultz975, @JakeArthurNFL, @ZachHicks2, @allenpinkett, @LockedOnColts, and @ColtsOn_SI, as well on TikTok and Instagram!Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!PelotonLet yourself run, lift, flex, and push forward. Explore the new Peloton Cross Training Tread+ today at https://www.onepeloton.com.PrizePicksDownload the PrizePicks app today and use code LOCKEDONNFL to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup.Click Here: https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/LOCKEDONNFLGametimeDownload the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONNFL for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply. Download Gametime today. What time is it? Gametime.FanDuelRight now, new customers can bet just FIVE dollars and if your bet wins—you’ll get THREE HUNDRED dollars in bonus bets to use across the app.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Welcome to the Colts Squad Show. I'm your host, Derek Shultz, and oof, that loss is going to stick around for a while. And I'm Zach Hicks, and nothing makes me more upset than wasting a good defensive performance. I'm Jake Arthur, and I think the Colts are going to be all right, but we're going to have to re-evaluate some things that we think we know about them. I'm Alan Pinkett, former Euler, and don't panic. I'll tell you why. Colts Nation rise up. It's the Colt Squad, everything Indianapolis Colts every week.

Covering all the big hits and game-changing plays from the Circle City, the way only the locked on podcast network can. It's time to squad up. The Colt Squad Joe starts now. Thanks so much for joining us. Hopefully your eyeballs haven't melted from that overtime loss or your ears haven't melted from listening to Tony Romo for four straight hours. This is Locked-on Colts on the Locked-on Colts Network.

Today's episode sponsored by our friends at Price Picks. Download the Price Picks app. And excuse me, use Locked-on NFL to get $50 off in lineups after you play your first five-hour lineup. I'm Derek Schultz, any sports talker. I'm columnist for the Indianapolis Business Journal. I'm joined by Nourname Legend and former NFL running back on Pinkin. And you every dayers know, of course, Jake Arthur and Zach Kicks, the wildly popular

Locked on Colts, too. I'm sorry. I've been golfing all day from screaming out my TV as well. Colts snatching defeat from the jaws of victory collapsing in the second half in Kansas City for their third loss of the year, which just happened about 15 minutes ago if you're watching us now on the live stream. We'll pick up the pieces from that 2320 defeat by the defending AFC champion chiefs. We'll talk about who's the blame, which is what we always do after Colts losses. Luckily, those have been somewhat rare this year. Week 12 studs and duds, kind of an uneven day, but as always, there were some good performances among the bad.

and then what this loss could mean, guys, moving forward at a critical point of the season, we talked about it all through the by week, like this was the home stretch, and this was the first impression of that home stretch. And obviously the Colts didn't leave a great one as far as the first step is concerned. But let's start here. It's been a while since I've been angry like this after a Colts loss. Like the Rams loss was kind of like, eh, you know, they made some mistakes. You know, I'm a little bit frustrated by A.D. Mitchell and all of that. I wasn't like enraged. Stewards game, I think they just caught him on a bad afternoon, you know, 17 weeks in the NFL, that stuff happens. I just thought Shane Steichen in this offense could have just,

if they could have just done the bare minimum, Zach, they would have won this game in the second half, just a couple of first downs, like scratch together a second field goal drive. Like the bar wasn't high. They put themselves in an advantageous position thanks to the defense and keeping Kansas City out of the end zone, essentially, and holding them to threes. and they just couldn't come up with it. This offense that has been impressive all year long, you know, continues to start to show some real weaknesses that opponents are exploiting now.

Yeah, you know, it's one thing if it's like, okay, on the road in Pittsburgh, we get it. Overseas game against Atlanta, like that's a tough one. Like those overseas games are ugly and low scoring. But now we're at three straight games where this offense has shown some weaknesses, shown some issues. We've seen the quarterback play kind of plummet back down to Earth

the last three weeks. And a couple of times, too, where Shane Steichen has had some issues. Like, I mean, I'm not going to sugarcoat it. Not running the football there in the fourth quarter is a mistake. Even if Taylor was averaging like two yards per carry on every run that wasn't that, like, 27-yard run, you still want to give your best player the ball. But, yeah, it's just a game that leaves a bitter taste in your mouth. You can't, you can't lose games in the NFL when you're up by 11 in the fourth quarter.

It's just inexcusable. I mean, the two-score lead in the fourth quarter, I don't care who you're going against. and not to downplay the Chiefs. Chiefs are a very good football team. We talked about it all week. This is going to be a tough one on the road against one of the best quarterbacks in the history of the league.

But you just can't blow games like this. And that's the most frustrating aspect. Like if anyone told you coming into the week, the Colts would lose by three in overtime to the Chiefs in Arrowhead. Sure. Okay, that means they put up a good fight against a good Chief's team

that was desperate and on the road. But to lose it the way they did, four straight three and outs from the offense. Colts defense, I thought they held on as long as they could, but if you're giving up 100 plays to Pat Mahomes and Andy Reed, eventually it's going to break through. Like the defense gave up 23 points in nearly 100 plays to Pat Mahomes. Like, they played very well today.

And it's just frustrating that the Colts wasted one of the best defensive performances of the year that we've seen from the Colts. They did a lot of good on that side of the ball. I mean, gosh, the Chiefs were the number two offense in football this year in terms of EPA per play. they moved the ball so effectively. And, you know, you knew they were going to get their yards. And the Colts stood really tall in the red zone and did a great job getting off the field.

Forcing that fumble on Karim Hunt, I thought was going to be the game-changing play that put that game away. And unfortunately, it wasn't. So, yeah, it's just frustrating the defense did so many things right in this game. It really did what they could to win this one. And the Colts offense, I mean, if you just get another, like, first down or two in the fourth quarter, this is maybe a different game. they just couldn't get it done. And Shane Seichen put it in his quarterback's hands in that fourth quarter, and they just couldn't do it.

Yeah, my lasting impression of this one is going to be that they carried a 20 to 9 lead into the fourth quarter and ran the ball once. You know, going into overtime, they had four consecutive three and outs. And Shane's philosophy has always been passed to score, which they did. They got up the 20 points, which isn't a lot. But in this game, that should have wound up being enough. like you guys mentioned, if you add another field war or two onto it, and then run to win, you know, get the clock running out.

And I understand the running game wasn't killing it in this one. Like Taylor was creating some of his own yards because they're like, Kansas City was just clearly selling out to stop Taylor. But if you run it and it doesn't work, that at least keeps the clock moving. If you pass it and it's not working, that's giving Kansas City all the time in the world, Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reed

all the time in the world to come back and make a game out of it and that's exactly what happened. With some of the stops, the defense did pull together, Kansas City probably didn't, probably doesn't actually have enough time to tie it up if you sprinkle in some runs in there. And I just don't understand

because there's been a handful of outcomes like this over the last few years where I don't know if, what's behind Shane's thinking on this, but when you force your quarterback to win it and you take the ball completely away from Jonathan Taylor, we've been here before. This is not the first time we've seen this horror movie.

It rarely works out this way. Like Jones is fine in the role that he is supposed to have, but when you take him away from being a complimentary piece and you put the ball just in his hands, when the last two games you've seen that when, defenses, you know, rush the heck out of you. It's not working well. Steve Spagnolo is one of the best assistant coaches in the league.

He knew what to do. He understood the assignment. The Colts did not. And ultimately, that was their downfall in this one. My slight pushback here is the Chief's entire game plan. Their entire game plan on that side of the football was Jonathan Taylor's not beating us. And aside from a 27-yard run, they had the Colts run game completely bottled up, game long. There was not a single positive that you could get on the ground. And the Colts did find

some answers there in like that second and third quarter, using the play action game, getting guys running away from defenders in man coverage. But again, late in the game, there's just, he's got to have it situations where I don't care if you're the 50th best quarterback in football or the number one quarterback in football. He's got to have it moments. You need your quarterback to step up. Third and one, around midfield, all-out blitz coming. You can't run the ball against that look there's seven guys in the box you know like you want to run it right into that so your quarterback needs to make that play for he needs to stand in there deliver the ball take that hit it's going to be a hard hard hit it's easy for me to say from home on my couch

on my couch for sure but you know when you're in the NFL you got to make those plays and he threw it off his back foot and threw it in the ground a couple other ones against the blitz throwing it wide and just not getting it to guys and that was the difference in this game one quarterback when he was pressured and don't even wrong but holmes was not pressured that off because a lot of their rushes was contained rushes to keep him in the pocket because his scramble is much scarier than his pass. But one quarterback when he did get pressured, made some big time plays, the other one did. And that was a big deciding factor in this game. Well, what I saw was a team with championship DNA play with desperation. I mean,

there was nothing more important to them than going out and winning that game. And I think, that, you know, one of the things that they tried to do, because you alluded to the fact that the Chiefs had almost 100 plays, I mean, they've rushed the ball 41 times, my homes threw it 46 times, was played keepaway from the cults. And the cults, to me, were never really able to get into a rhythm late in the second half. Now, some of that may be of their own doing, You know, not converting on third down. But I think that the Colts definitely felt more pressure where in the first half, I thought that the Colts offense was more methodical.

I mean, they were like a machine just moving the ball. And they were not able to keep that up because of this team playing like their lives, the Chief's lives depended on it. And that's what I saw. But I don't think it's a reason to panic because I think this is one of those games where you go back, you look at the film, and trust me, you're going to see these blitzes again. You're going to see this type of pressure once again. Now you know the answers. Will you be able to in the upcoming games?

Because let me tell you something. When I saw the Texans play in their game, that was a little bit scary, that defense again. the bills. So you're going to see more and more pressure can the Colts deliver when that pressure comes in the future. Yeah. And I agree with you, Alan, that like if this were a one-time showing, I think you can live with it. Like, look, Spagnola is a Hall of Fame defensive coach. They have Chris Jones up there as a Hall of Fame defensive tackle. They have good pieces. But I think the concerning part is this is a three-week trend now we've seen. And it continued after the buy as well, where this offense, when teams are kind of selling all out to

stop the run and blitz the quarterback, we have not seen this offense respond well the last three times that we've seen them. So I think that's the bigger concern here. It's not really just like, again, if you told me coming into the week, they lost by three and overtime to the Chiefs, fine, you know, that's a tough game. Chiefs are good, too. They're much better than their six and five record. I think we can all agree there. But to lose the way they did, also to have it be because of the issues that plagued them in past games or past losses like the like the Steelers loss. I think that's the very concerning aspect with this Colts team. Maybe not as concerning as some of the comments are saying that they're going to lose out and all

that stuff. But I do think it is a concerning aspect of this team where they haven't responded well to this. And I don't know if they're finding the answers internally as of right now. It's a big test going forward for them if they can find those answers. Yeah, it's a great point. I mean, the fourth quarter, the offense went three and out. three and out, and then still had the lead. It was 20 to 17 with the ball at midfield, fourth and 10. Ball at midfield, and you're up three. And they still, not only could they not score,

they need to get a first down. And it's just like, you're exactly right that it's not that they lost. It's just how they lost. Like the Colts were seemingly in control, even when things were wavering a little bit, they were in control of this game really up until the very end. And if they just had done the bare minimum on a couple of those where the defense has gotten the ball back

and even just gotten a couple of first downs, Jake. I think you would, and ate some clock, I think you would have felt a lot better about this outcome. I mean, 20 points might have been enough if you weren't going over three with three throws and taking 52 seconds off the clock every time you have the ball in the fourth. I think that's exactly right.

And that's kind of my biggest issue here is, you know, you're just going against your own philosophy. And I do understand that the chiefs, I even tweeted. I was like Steve Spadmilla probably woke up this morning saying he'd rather die and let Jonathan Taylor beat them. And that's exactly what they were doing. But the defense is three games in a row now are doing the same things to beat you.

And you're not you're not doing enough to counter it. Like we all came into this game knowing exactly what Kansas City's defense should do to beat the Colts and disrupt the passing game. and then when the Colts made themselves one dimensional, like that's exactly what they didn't have the proper answer to it. And I think I would just, it's maybe not fair to ask Jonathan Taylor to like fight and rip through and create all of his own yards.

But there were there were times there when he was doing just that. And I would rather go down giving your best player a couple more opportunities to get you those necessary first downs that you need and everything. because this wound up being a game in the fourth quarter where like literally every single play mattered and the Colcest didn't do enough with it and I'm just always of the thinking that you have got to have the ball in your best player's hands and you're you're just kind of turning Daniel Jones into something that he's not like early in the season when he was like a cog in the machine and not the guy you're putting the ball in his hands a million times like

it just works so much better that way yeah and one thing I do want to throw out there just for speculation, but I think it did play a factor. I think that Jones injury was a little bit worse than what we kind of expected coming into this. They didn't call many bootlegs in this game, which was the key to really getting after this cheese defense. No QB sneaks in this game with multiple third and ones and fourth and ones in this one. I think there was something going on with that leg too with Jones. Not to give him an out here because again, this isn't a one week issue. It's been a multi-week issue with him. But I do think that that leg was giving him some issues and it led to a little bit more like hamstrung offensive play calling at

times than this one. Yeah, no question about it. We're going to talk more about Shane Steichen's play calling, Daniel Jones going into the fetal position, and who's the blame for the Colts loss to the Chiefs when we return next here on the Colts squad show? This portion of the show brought you by our friends at prize picks. You and I make decisions every day, but on prize picks, being right, can get you paid. Don't miss any of the excitement of this sports season, whether you're following the NFL, NBA, or both. There's no better time to jump in on the action.

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who actually did win yesterday. Jake Arthur is out of Locked on Colts here as well. I'm Derek Schultz, recapping the Colts disappointing and frustrating and excruciating, really, 2320 loss at Arrowhead to the chiefs, which are the artists formerly known as Arrowhead, whatever they're calling that stadium now, we're kind of, you know, just bridging the first segment into the second segment because obviously a lot of the takeaway from that game is Shane Steichen and the play

calling. And I'm usually a Shane Steichen defender. I don't want to be that, you know, why did they run the ball? We've talked about this before. Like there are some Colts fans that every single turnover they think would just be avoided if the Colts would just run the ball. And it's tough to run when a team and a defensive coordinator like Steve Spacknolo is committed to taking that away. But as much as we talked about the fourth quarter, the other thing, I just kind of scribbled down on posted notes, notes during the games. Alan, I know that you kind of do this too because we're not as smart as the other guys, right? But I scribbled down in that second quarter, there was a third and one play, if you guys remember, right before halftime and the Colts had the ball. And they ended up, I think Daniel Jones tried to throw to Josh Downs.

And it was just a low probability sort of completion play. And I'm thinking to myself, man, I think you just run there because of the clock factor. And, you know, it's third and one and it's one yard. And I was like, yeah, but whatever, you know, Stuyken, this is kind of what he does. Chiefs get the ball back. They march right down the field. They get another field goal to get to nine points. And, you know, at the time, I wasn't thinking that that was some like catastrophic red flag kind of mistake.

But with the way that the game played out, to me, Zach, it was just sort of a smaller consequence of the overall day for the offensive game plan, if that makes sense. Yeah, I think that might be a good question, though, for sticking on that particular play, because it looked like they had a run call on by where the alignment was of the running back prior to the snap, and then Jones checked out of it because there was like eight guys in the box. And that was kind of a lot of what happened today, I think,

in a lot of situations. Now, I don't know what was happening in that fourth quarter. A lot of those did just look like past plays, but we did see Jones very active at checking out of things and changing plays. And I think it did lead to some of the issues on, on third downs at times in this game. But yeah, I mean, Shane Steichen had his warts for sure in this game. I mean, at the end of the day, you do have to run the ball there in the fourth quarter.

At least, like, again, dare them to tackle Jonathan Taylor in the fourth quarter over and over again, even if they have seven or eight guys in the box. So I do think there are certainly some things to blame with Stiking here. The one thing I will defend him a little bit on, and this is a weird thing for me to defend on because I'm always so aggressive with everything on offensive play calling. But there were a couple situations where Tony Romo and I'm seeing like some kind of commenters and stuff say like the Colts were too conservative with some of their fourth down decision making and and going for it situations when your quarterback was that shaky late in the

game and your defense was playing well for most of the day I kind of get it punting them and you know your punter is going to get them within the five yard line you know like I kind of get it now don't get me wrong I'm still psychotic enough where I probably would have gone for it in those situations but yeah it was like a fourth and two at like midfield or fourth and three around midfield and your quarterback's just not playing good football at that point he just threw a ball in the dirt on the third down play and you know your punter's going to get it within the five i kind of get punting there even though again in retrospect the chiefs end up winning the game it looks like the wrong decision but like yeah if my quarterback was playing better i think i would have gone for it there

but like we're outside of run territory there too it's fourth and three it's hard to run the ball in fourth and three so yeah i think you can you can blame psychon for a lot of things in this one i think some of the conservativeness, though, late, I don't really agree with just because, I mean, there was just nothing moving on offense. And again, Spagnola was saying, we dare you, Daniel Jones, to beat us. And he just wasn't standing in there and delivering passes, whether it was because of the injury, whether it's because of just shaky play, whatever it was, Jones was just not standing in there and delivering.

And he was just going to keep bringing that pressure. So I don't know if giving the ball to the chiefs at midfield instead of inside their own 10 was the answer there, because I don't think they were going to convert on those fourth downs. Yeah, Zach, you know, I mentioned a couple times in this last week. You know, there was, you know, in that last game, the Atlanta game, there was the opportunity they had where they went for it on fourth and down in the low red zone where I thought they should have kicked the field goal. Shane actually did do that in this one and took a field goal.

I think it was like a 23 or something, really short field goal for Badgley, which I agreed with that one there for sure. but yeah it's i i do think like i i don't agree with how this game went for psychin but i think there's kind of a fever pitch coming at him right now because i think overall he's been outstanding uh this season there's just there's times where it does not go well and this was one of them i'm not like discouraged for like the whole season when it comes that there's things like i think they need to realize that have to change because defenses are bringing the same thing week after week and uh they're being successful with it uh but yeah overall

yeah this is when you just got a flush and uh houston it's a very obvious challenge coming at you next week and you know what they can do so like i i hope they have a different game plan going forward i will say the next week game against houston's at home i believe right it's at home have been a very very different team offensively at home than on the road so I wouldn't necessarily say that all of a sudden they're going to be terrible there because, look at, look at, like, the Bill's record on home and away, the Colts record, home and away this year, the Chiefs record, home and away. Teams are a lot different teams at home than they are on the road. So I wouldn't go too crazy, like, oh, my gosh, they're not going to score against Houston because home games are very different in the NFL. You know, with all the communication you need at the line of scrimmage, it's definitely easier at home than it is.

in an away game. The Chiefs fans did get very loud today. I do recall Daniel Jones trying to, you know, speed up the count to get the ball snapped and it didn't happen a lot of times. And that's solely on the fact that you're playing in the stadium formerly known as Arrowhead. But the one thing I'll say that I wish I could have seen

was more screens and draws. Usually the best answer, the number one solution, when you're getting a ton of pressure, is screens and draws. And when Warren caught his one screen past, I thought he was just going to walk in the end zone because he got people out in front of him.

I would have liked to have seen a little more of that. And I think that you guys have touched on something with the potential injury to Daniel Jones because he definitely was not as mobile as he usually as. He did scramble one time. And there was one time when I guess you remember he just jogged. He faked the handoff and he jogged over. He wasn't on a full sprint. And there was an opportunity to get more yards, but he just jogged and got his one yard and got the first down. So there may be something there where you're going to have to, get them in the room and get some ice on them.

Yeah, yeah, no, for sure. But I think when we're playing this blame game, and again, I'm not trying to be just going back to what I was this offseason, because for everything negative we say about Daniel Jones, I mean, he's a big reason why they have eight wins this year. So you have to give him credit for a lot of the play early in the season. But look, at the end of the day, if your coach is trusting you to go out there and make these plays to win a game, as a quarterback, you've got to make those plays.

And he just didn't do it today. That was the biggest difference in this game. One quarterback consistently made plays and the other didn't. It's not fair to compare anyone to Pat Mahomes. Pat Mahomes is a different breed, very, very good quarterback. And maybe that's not fair. But like, if you want to win it all this year, those are the guys you're playing against. You know, you have to be able to make plays that can go toe to toe with them.

And the Colts had a lead for most of this game. Like, it wasn't like they were asking Jones to crawl this team back from the depths of hell to win this game. It was convert a couple first down, stand in there and deliver a couple throws like he did against the Denver Broncos, for instance, early in the season, like he did against the Chargers when they needed first downs in that game. We've seen him do that this year. But in this game, when Spagnola said, you know what, Jones, if we're going to lose, we're going to lose to Daniel Jones's arm. And Jones just wasn't able to answer the bell. And guys were open. I mean, yes, he was pressured on them, but guys were open. Those are just plays that need

to be made. And I'm not going to put all the blame on the quarterback. And even for all the blame, I want to take away from the defense because they played well, there were still a couple times a defense could have been better, but you just can't go three and out four times in a row and expect to win, regardless of how big your lead is in the fourth quarter. And when the other team is daring you to throw the ball, you have to be able to throw the ball. And they just weren't in this game.

So just need better from your quarterback going forward. Again, I don't know how much the injury plays into this, but he just needs to be better, especially if, you know, the Colts don't have first round picks this year or next year now because they believe in this quarterback. He's got to reward that belief with strong, play because the last three weeks we've seen from him have not been good enough and they need to be better going forward.

Well, my Pollyanna way of thanking is you're still in first place. And secondly, you got a chance to see what the playoffs are going to look like. And fortunately, it was not a playoff game. It was a regular season game. And so in a loss, you can learn a hell of a lot from a loss, mainly how not to lose again. But there's a lot of takeaways from this particular game that the Colts can make a ton of improvements on so that when they get in this stress run, they'll be able to have success in these situations instead of what they saw

today. Yeah. All I know is with the group of past catchers they've got, they've just got to get better play like i i for the life me i don't understand why it's not really clicking with josh downs right now it's like a huge opportunity for me like you've got you've got such a good slot receiver out there that could be doing so much for you and it's just not clicking for whatever reason it seems like the timing isn't there whatever it is uh especially there's there's been opportunities when jones is under like extreme duress where where downs could be a nice outlet there and it's just not happening. And then there was, you know, a pass or two to Pittman that wasn't super well placed.

Now, again, he's got, he's got everything coming down at him at the time that he's getting rid of the ball. But their cast of characters is just too good to be leaving this much on the table. Yeah, no, for sure. But I do want to respond again, just to defensive stuff. Because I think all four of us are an agreement that the Colts defense played well enough to win this game. But yeah, they gave up 500.

They gave up 500 yards in this game. They were on the field for as long as they did. At the end of the day, they were going against Pat Mahomes in Arrowhead. The number two offense in EPA per play, one of the most efficient offenses in football, the best short yardage offense in the league. And they gave 23 points in a game and a half or whatever, the game plus quarter. And they took the ball away twice. One was in the red zone.

They took the ball away. I mean, look, sure, you want your defense to give up zero points every single week. That's not realistic here. held on as much as they could. I mean, in the fourth quarter, they could even go to the sideline and get a gatorade because their offense couldn't stay on the field, you know? So how many times you need to give the ball back to your offense? I mean, there were countless times. Again, the chiefs get into the red zone. They take the ball away by forcing the fumble, right? Immediately back on the field right after that. Then they gave up the points on that.

And then the Colts offense, when they have a good chance to just put the game away after that, after that touchdown drive by the chiefs, what do they do? Three and out? Oh, defense who just gave up a touchdown drive. You're back on the field again. They forced a three and out. They got off the field again. Offense gets another chance around midfield, and they're unable to get a first down. So, like, yes, the defense could have been better. I'm not saying this is an A plus 100% perfect performance from them, but they did.

They played winning football today. This was winning football from the defense. They got the takeaways. They got off the field on third down. They forced field goals. They forced a ton of field goals in this game. Like, all that Colts had to do was get some first downs in the fourth quarter, and you win this game. Colts defense played winning.

football. Colts offense was a mess late in this game. So we're playing the blame game. It's like 90-10. Like I'll give 10% on the defense for a couple of late conversions and stuff, but it's 90% on the offense. Like, come on. Even the first touchdown for the Colts offense was the defense that got down to the two-yard line on the Nick. Like the Colts defense was playing winning football today. Colts offense blew it. Absolutely blew it. Yeah. And I mean, I'm not making excuses like with no DeForest Buckner or anything. You look at it, the chiefs clearly wanted to switch up the game plan. They ran it with Kareem Hunt 30 times only averaging three and a half yards per carry.

Like they just stuck to something they really, really wanted to do. And they picked up their third and shorts with the run game. You know, it just allowed them to continue these methodical drives. And like they had numerous 10 plus play drives. And then you get the ball back to the yard. offense who goes three and out or you know five and out can't sustain a drive like it was like from the jump like the the Colts offense was putting points on the board early but Kansas City for their own effort was putting intentionally putting together million play drives like it the

the Colts offense just had to continue making the most of their limited opportunities and they stopped doing it. Like early in the game, it was going well. And, like, I even wanted to point out, and I'd never tweeted it because I was like, this is going to come back to bite me at some point. But I was like, Sauce and Mooney are shutting these guys down. Kansas City was have nothing was happening on the boundaries for Kansas City whatsoever. But then once the dam started to break a little bit and the offense couldn't do a single thing

and the defense was on the field for like the entire game and Kansas City started pushing a little bit, that's, you know, that's when everything structurally that was set up well for them just kind of started to fall apart. What's the thing that Alan says all the time, complimentary football? The defense played complimentary football. It wasn't perfect football, but complementary football. You know the best way to keep that defensive time of possession against down? If your offense actually holds the ball, if your offense actually gets first downs,

then your defense isn't out there the entire fourth quarter. So, yeah, I mean, come on. This is complimentary football. The Colts offense did not do their part, and that's why the Colts lost. Yeah, and I'll say one more thing. If you've got one back running 30 times, you are taking the heart and soul out of that defense. I mean, if you continue to run, you are going to eventually wear a defense down. You know, I know I had to, I know Kareem Hunt ran it a bunch, but then when I looked at the stats sheet, 30 times,

I was able to break 100, but also in the NFL, you run it 30 times. You're going to be sore the next day. You might be sore the next week. But, you know, it's the best way to break the heart of the defense is keep running it, running it, running it. And that's what the cults have been doing most of the year, except for today. Yeah, and you can understand, guys, why the Chiefs would do that. I mean, they're running back because 15 touchdowns this year. He's an MVP candidate.

Oh, wait, hold on. I'm getting the running backs mixed up. That was the other guy. We come back here on the Colts Squad show. Plenty good to talk about amidst all the bad. Standout plays on defense. and a Colt that barely plays did a fantastic job, despite us having to see him a lot more

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And we're back on the Locked-on Colts Squad Show. I promise no more cheesy jokes. Colts fall to the Chiefs 2320 in overtime as we're about halfway through our post-game show. Thanks so much for joining us alongside Alan Pinkett and, the Locked-on Colts duo of Jake Arthur and Zach Hicks. I'm Derek Schultz. Guys, let's talk studs and duds, as we always do. And let's start with some positive here because we've spent basically the first

35 minutes of the show being negative and rightfully so, right? The Colts really snatched defeat from the jaws of victory here in Kansas City. But a couple of really big defensive plays I had on my studs. You know, what a deflection and pick by Layatu Latsu. He made that look a lot easier than it probably was. And it really kind of set the tone, I think, early for the Colts defense. And that's, Alan, you know this. That's what you always want to do on the road, right?

You want to come out and make a play like that, and it looked to be at the time a game-changing play. Another play that I thought was a game-changing play was the Zaire Franklin Strip, which, of course, ended up not being a game that didn't stand up that way. But the guy that I mentioned that we saw a lot more than we wanted to see, but I think he really did his job. I thought Rigoberto Sanchez was fantastic as well, boomed some punts, you know, put the Colts in an advantageous position

after the offense kind of sputtered. And shout out to the backup tight ends. Alec Ogletree with his first ton of the year Marley Cox made a catch as well Noah Gray dropped one and I kind of jokingly did a Colts backup tight ends here we go but not a bad day for the backup tight ends either so I do think there were some

you know but Zach those are all kind of like I don't want to say little things because I think the lots who play and the Franklin play were were big plays but I don't know if there were a lot of like oh man he had an unbelievable game type performances like we've seen through the first 10 or 11 games this season for the Colts. Yeah, it's sad that we have to throw the punter in there. That says what the kind of day it was

for the Colts offense. I'd rather never see him. I mean, just to kind of piggyback on top of the punter, though, I mean, Ashton Doolin and everything he had to do today was just incredible. I mean, gosh, I thought you could see the all pro gunner out there with Doolin a couple times today and then the big time reception as well to get points on the board for the Colts just a couple plays later. Doolin was fantastic if we're talking studs. Again, maybe this is a grin of some people here, I thought Lou Anirumo called a really good game in this one. He's limited, right? Because your pass rush just doesn't have your top dog and your other guys just aren't big-time

winners. Lyotu Lothi's not beating Josh Simmons on the outside, which is a concern for sure. So you're not going to get these four-man pressure things. So I thought he did a good job of mixing in a lot of these drop-eight coverages, a lot of these man coverage concepts that got the team off the field in key situations. The red zone defense was really good. So I thought he had a really good game plan for it. It's just, again, when you have to face 40 plays in the fourth quarter, eventually your game plan's going to crack.

But up until, I mean, again, they had nine points allowed against one of the best offenses in football going into the fourth quarter. I thought that was a recipe for success. I thought they were doing some great things there. It just fell apart late. But, yeah, I mean, there's not that many studs just because it feels like such a horrible loss for the team. Drew Ogletree, though, that's a good shout, though, for that catch he made. for your first catch of the season and your first career touchdown catch to be over Trent McDuffie, one of the best corners in the league, you know, congratulations on that

first one. I can't believe that works. So yeah, that was a nice play, but I'm kind of all out of studs after that. Jake, do you have any more? You're a little bit more optimistic than me typically. We've got to get Jermaine Fratt in there. That's true. Tackles, man.

Like, I can only think of a couple other 20 tackle games in Colts' lore over the last million years, it seems you know, Shaq Leonard, I think, had one. Oddly enough, I think Grant Stewart might have him as well. Yeah, Grant Stewart had one. But 20 tackles, 15 solo tackles. I thought he lived in the back field and at the line of scrimmage. I thought he was very, very influential

in what the Colts were able to do in the front seven. Two tackles for loss. Pratt was just all over the place. And it's really been a positive thing since he became the other starting linebacker. It's not been perfect by any means for either of him or Zyre Franklin, but what was going on at linebacker next to Franklin was not going to be sustainable throughout the year,

and Pratt finally kind of stopped that whole rigmarole and made it a more consistent thing. So I thought Jermaine Pratt was outstanding. Zaire Franklin, I thought, made a lot of big plays in this one as well. Again, it's never going to be perfect with Franklin, but I thought he did some really, really good things. Again, even if he misses someone in the backfield, I think Franklin influences where the ball is going quite a bit

when it comes to the backfield. Let's see here. I thought sauce. I thought sauce looked pretty decent. There was a few things that came his way. Not tackling, though. I will say not tackling. He's got to clean up the tackling.

That's never why you have him, though. I know, I know. We got to clean up the tackling, though. sort of a reincarnation of Dionne Sanders. Basically. Very different, but yeah. Defensive line-wise, Latu and Stewart made a lot of plays. Latu, of course, I know he's not a great run defender.

But, you know, he gets a sack. He gets a third interception. Like, guys, I know he's not getting the amount of sacks you want, even though he is, he got one today. But for a defensive end to have three picks is pretty remarkable. Like, and they're not just necessarily all falling into his lap. Like he's making place to get to him. So, yeah, that, I don't know.

Yeah, there's not a lot going here. Rigoberto, yes, like Rigoberto punted the hell out of the ball. Zach, are punters, do they rank higher than kickers to you? Oh, yeah, punters are real. Kickers are real kickers suck. That's true. I mean, you have to do something on like fourth and 20 from your own like 20 yard line, you know? Like, so we need punters.

Kickers we don't need in this way. Okay, that's fair. you know all the guys you pointed out i would just echo you know the things that that you said i thought that uh was really impressed by ashton dueling every time he's been called on he's done something spectacular you know he creates value for himself to stay on this team yeah and i did notice that you when you have sauce and what do y'all call him mooney mooney ward yeah When those two are locked down, and so there's definitely a difference with this defense. The defense has taken a step up.

Now, I would love to see a more, not so much bend, but don't break. But, I mean, when it's time for this defense to stiffen its back, they usually do it. And I think part of that is because you got two locked down corners. And can't say enough about Jermaine Pratt. especially since he didn't play a lick of training camp with this team, basically came off the street and now is making 20 tackles. Yeah, no, for sure. Yeah, but I will say with the defense, again,

they played very well, I think, for most of this game. And, yeah, having those two outside corners, I thought played big. I mean, pretty much all the passes were funneled to the middle of the field for most of that game until late. So, yeah, we saw the big difference there. in terms of duds though i think we covered duds a lot already on this i add one yeah the duds really are are stuyken and jones right i mean i don't know if anybody else played you know jonathan taylor had a quiet game i don't know if i'd call them a dud necessarily

there were other there's some context there oh line but again it was like here five guys block seven all day long you know it's kind of like yeah you want to see them better but like we don't have enough bodies here to block all these guys yeah i think For both of them, I think there was context, but I do want to give a dud, and I waited until the 42nd minute to say this. I just thought the officiating was just kind of all over the place. You know, I hate the roughing rule with the body weight thing. I hate it.

I think it's, I'm sure I know you hate it, Alan, I'm sure every single player, old school player kind of hates that call, but I think there was a lot of, you know, kind of picking and choosing. You know, I thought the face mask that took away the Chiefs touchdown was kind of a tough call, in that situation. And then I didn't like the Pitman OPI. I thought that was just a play on. I didn't know if it was, I didn't know if it was DPI or OPI or holding on either side. I was just kind of like, I don't think that's a flag at all. It was a weird play to me. But I want to throw the officiating in there. It's a flag happy crew. And I can't stand watching

games when there's just flat, flag, flag, flag, flag, flag, flag, yeah, it went both ways, too. Like, I think Colts fans have plenty of reason to be pissed about that, as do cheese fans. Like, it, I just don't like when officiating gets so much. in the way of the game like a lot of flags a lot of inconsistencies and what they were and we're not going to call obviously I know a lot of people are upset about the calls that Mahomes got like the the roughing calls that went for in Mahomes favor are almost always going to be called Jones got none of them though I do get the frustration there because he took a lot of hits that probably would have been called in favor for for my homes I wanted to sneak one more

quick stud in there because he's a guy where I have to give him his flowers when I'm hard on him. Anthony Gould, I thought, was really, really good today, especially as a punt returner, gave the fruitless Colts offense really good field position several times. Oh, Colts special teams was fantastic all day long. Yeah, yeah. Colts special teams and the defense deserved to win this game. Their offense didn't, but their cold special teams, if you look at their kick coverage, kick and punt coverage, phenomenal.

Like, honestly, one of the best games they've had all year. in kick and punt coverage no miss kicks from from money badger today punts were on on top of it all day long and gould was returning punts very well and even the kick returns all got past the 30 so yeah special teams was phenomenal for the colts in this game they just it wasn't enough i guess they needed some block kicks in there as well it would i guess that would have been the difference maker and those are building blocks you know those are things that make up a victory you know so hopefully those guys continue to do that the cults clean up the areas that are messed up which i know they can do and they need to get the taste of winning back in their

mouth again Alan let's just talk Notre Dame the rest of the 15 minutes that would be fun you see I'm still representing oh buddy I found myself rooting for the Syracuse kid to score with seven seconds left. Is that wrong for me to do? I mean, I just, okay, I felt, I felt bad about it. Colts and going into the next game against Houston is going to be a really big one. It was already going to be a big one, but especially as a big one now, will there be some lingering, though, from this Colts loss moving forward for the rest of this season? We're going to talk about that when the squad show returns for a final time next. tie a bow on this post game edition locked on colts squad show thanks so much for joining us alongside

alan pinkett former oiler and notary am running back jake arthur and zach hicks who did not play sports at a high level but they do podcast at a high level for locked on colts on derrick shultz i'm not really a high level athlete or podcaster but i'm here hi uh colts have a big game coming up finally they return home it just feels like they haven't been home in a month and it's because they haven't been home in a month with the by week and the international trip and and all of that but you know you always worry about, Alan, I wanted to start with you here because you were in those locker rooms for all those years, the hangover effect of a loss. You know, players always say, eh, you're on to the next one, on the next one. And I think largely that's pretty true. I think you have to be just kind of so

laser-focused in on what's happening in front of you that you can't spend a lot of time looking back. But I do wonder a little bit, you know, we talked about this on Wednesday's show. It's not that the Colts lost, right? Like Zach said, if you would have told me that they lost by a field goal and overtime to the chiefs on the road. Fine. Whatever. It's just kind of the way that they lost and the missed opportunity of what a win would have meant. I maintain that this would have really been a season defining type win to go there and win and show that this is a different Colts team. Now, my mind's still open that this can be a contender and all of that. I'm not throwing that out the window, but will there be any lingering effects from this loss in your

opinion, Alan? Well, one of the things that happens in professional football is you're going to lose. So you've got to handle it like a professional and know, okay, that happened. Let's flush it and let's move on to the next. But there's some losses that sting a little bit more. And you can't be casual about it. You have to really put in front of your mind, we got to correct this foolishness if we're going to have any type of success. And, you know, fortunately for the Colts, all the goals that are out there in front of them are still present. But, you know, This is one of those losses that really pisses you off because you had it right there in your hands. And there's two ways to handle that.

You can assume that you're not good enough and you get in that situation again and you fold because you say, well, maybe we're not supposed to win. Or you go and correct that mess. And it's a collective thing, both coaches and players. But I would say it's more on the players to correct. that kind of stuff to police themselves so that, you know, when they get in this situation again, they've worked too hard to put themselves in position to, you know, not be detailed oriented in the fourth quarter. You know, so this is one that it hurts a little bit more,

this type of loss, but it should hurt enough to make you want to go back and correct the things and make sure it doesn't happen again. Yeah, you know, it's just tough to lose a game when you're winning like that in the fourth quarter because you just, you look at the film and it stings extra hard, where it's like, we should have, we should have won this game. Like, they should have won this football game. But the key is always how you bounce back from losses. Just make sure the losses don't stack.

So far this year, the culture 2 and O following a loss, averaging 35 points per game. Technically, they've come back home after each loss, but one of those home games is the Atlanta game overseas. So I don't know if I could really count that in there. The other home one was against the Raiders following their loss to the Rams. They came out and dropped 40 on the Raiders and really responded exceptionally well in that one. But yeah, it's all about how you just respond to this. Like losses happen for sure.

Like, and the Chiefs are a good football team. And you were on the road and they were desperate. Like, it happens. The key is just making sure this doesn't carry over against Houston. You're coming back home. You're going against a divisional opponent. All these things that happen going forward. can control everything with these divisional games.

So, like, everything going forward is still within their reach and within their own, their own control. They just need to make sure they take care of business in these divisional games. But if I have anything I'm concerned about, it's still just Jones after these last couple games. And, again, I'm not going back to my preseason takes on Daniel Jones because he's a big reason why they have the eight wins, but he's also a big reason why they have the three losses, you know, and we've seen him kind of have these issues in recent weeks.

And it's not like the defensive schedule gets a lot easier the rest of the way here, right? They got this game against Kansas City, who, you know, their top 10 to 15 defense in the league this year, according to whatever stats you're looking at. But the rest of the way, they get Houston twice. They get Jacksonville twice, who is a really good takeaway deep. They take the football away really well. And then you get Seattle, who's a very good defense as well. So it doesn't get easier. And for you to win these games, like, yeah, we can say run the ball a little bit more for sure.

and it helps there, but to win games in the NFL, the quarterback has to be the difference maker. We can have him be the system quarterback and be the complementary piece to Jonathan Taylor, but at the end of the day, your quarterback needs to make plays. That's why the Colts have eight wins because their quarterback made plays in those eight games. He needs to get back to doing what he was doing early in the season, and it's going to come against better defenses here. So the Colts are going to go with, like, look, Jonathan Taylor's great. Colts offensive line has been good for most the year. The defense, I think, is getting better. But where you go in the NFL is based on how good your quarterback is. That's why the MVP award is not the MVP award anymore. It's the

MVP award, most valuable quarterback award, because where you go in the NFL is based on what your quarterback can do. And this team is, you know, high or low on what Daniel Jones gives them the rest of the year. If he's going to play like this or play like he did against Pittsburgh, play like he did, I mean, for most of that game against Atlanta, the Colts are not going to go very far but if he can get back to what was working early in the season and operate really high in this system and trust what he is seeing and make some big time throws this colt's team can be dangerous come playoff time but he needs to get back on on track because these last couple weeks have been very concerning yeah i think the good news for them is they do have let's see they have four

more games here that carry a ton of weight division games and like they might give way in the grand scheme of the AFC playoff race, but they do have a bit of a lead there in the division with four opportunities to control their own destiny there. And again, they get back to having a few more home games like Zach mentioned. And they also don't face any more like elite AFC quarterbacks. Like whatever Sam Darnold does to them is whatever Sam Darnold does to them out there in Seattle. Like that's whatever. But, you know, even if C.J. Stroud is back for both Houston games. You know, that offensive line is still not great. You know, this next one is at home. Trevor Lawrence has been as weird of a quarterback to evaluate as possible this year.

It's been mostly a mixed bag. So as long as you don't just completely shoot yourself in the foot constantly, the other side of the ball is probably not going to make you pay too bad as much as like today because like you you just cannot give patrick mahomes bonus opportunities you can't do it and then so you don't you don't really face that level of a threat anymore and if you play well again four of these next six games are incredibly consequential and you can pretty much control your own destiny still because of what daniel jones and the rest of this team built up in the first half of the schedule and i'll just throw in i'll just throw in i'll just throw this in. Because I'll agree with you, Zach. At quarterback, you either have that guy

or you don't have that guy. And every year we get in the playoffs, it's that guy that's in the playoffs. And so when you look at the remaining schedule, how many of those teams have that guy? So there shouldn't be an excuse, you know, so you can run the table. Now, you've got their They're competent pros, make plays. What? The Texans are using their backup. He was the one who beat the bills. But in the long run, is he really the guy that's going to, you know,

lead the Texans to an undefeated six or seven games remaining? You know, so it's a hell of an opportunity for the Colts right now. And the Colts think they have that guy. but this game is definitely going to be a lesson, and I hope that they study the film. And trust me, they will be doing Blitz Pickup. I don't know if you get the chance, Jake, to go watch practice. But I bet you they will spend at least an hour or 45 minutes on Blitz pickup.

We'd love it if they did. Yeah, and I, you know, this next game against Houston Texans, again, a home game for the Colts, biggest game of the season by far and away. divisional game. Texans are heating up. They're right on your heels now, and you get them at home. Again, the Colts are 6 and 0 at home this year, averaging nearly 35 points per game in these games. They need to show out at home. This is where they've shown out all season long. They need to do that in this upcoming week. And they get the benefit, and this is where I'm going to be a little risky with this one. They're likely going against the Texans quarterback. That's three and five in his starts this year. I mean, they're going against the lesser of the two quarterbacks. Like, it's great. I'm just kidding. But they are going against the quarterback. That's three and five in his starts in that in that one there. But yeah, a huge game coming up for the Colts. Need Stiking to get back on track and get back to just what was working early in the season.

Need Jones to get back on track and and deliver against the pressure. And again, a lot of me being hard on Jones is like we saw it against Denver, man. Like against Denver, he was under duress all game long, was getting hit as he was throwing the ball. And he stood in there and made some high level throws. it's almost like that Pittsburgh game just having the ball knocked out of his hand a couple times spooked him you know it spooked him and it made it so he doesn't trust just hanging in there and delivering against the rush and you have to do that as an NFL quarterback you know you just you just have to I'm sorry like I'm the worst person to say it let your coaches be the ones

who say this because they're at least in the trenches with you I'm just a guy with a microphone here who's not getting hit by Chris Jones on these plays so I get it but you just have to make those plays if you want to win games in the NFL. Again, on Mahomes' big 30-something-yard completion in this game, he got hit by Nick Cross, his feet were in the air as he was throwing the ball. It's just those are the plays you got to make to win games. And they haven't got that from Jones recently, but I know he's capable of it. He did it early in the season. That's why you're being hard on him here because he did it early in the year, you know, like, and that's what you need to win these games. So he just needs to get

back to, I'm not even saying trust the pocket, just trust your read and step into these throws. If you get hit, you get hit. It's part of the game, you know. Heck, you might get a penalty call for, you might even get, you know, the benefit of someone putting their body weight on you or something. I don't know, whatever that call was. But you got to make those throws to win in the NFL. Good.

And the more success you have at quarterback, the more you get those calls. That's true. That's true. And just a closing thought here, guys, because, you know, this is how it is on a postgame show, right? After a win, Colts are going to Santa Clara, you know, let's hop in. the van and drive there right now and after a loss it's they're terrible but but to the people that are saying well see this was all a mirage and everything's a pumpkin a carriage into a pumpkin and they were you know uh they were merchants on their schedule in the first half of the year look we said it here guys

you can take the raiders game and the dolphins game and the titans games for what they were they moved the ball up and down the field all day against Denver all day all day all day against that defense all day uh against the rams they really lost that game themselves i mean they largely outplayed the Rams who look like the best team of the NFL right now. So I think right now, obviously the last couple of weeks, it's concerning, right? And this is what happened sometimes there are ebbs and flows of the season. And I'm not trying to be all the optimist here. I think there are some things to be legitimately not only concerned about, but upset about when it comes to the Colts. But I don't want to just kind of throw everything out because they've largely struggled for the

last three games. If they win their three home games, they're almost certainly going to win the division. And then you get on the dance floor. And as you guys know, the playoffs can be super random and you just as long as you're on the dance floor you got a chance to dance right yeah except for except for me in a high school as long as you're on the dance floor you have a chance to dance so that's all the colts have to really do here um in the closing weeks is put themselves in the position to win the division get that home game which they haven't had in almost 12 years and figure everything out from there when your divisional games they got to take care of like i can we can excuse this loss to a degree right like again you don't want to lose a game when you're up by two scores in the fourth

quarter but you can excuse this loss to a degree these four divisional games though i mean you drop them and then we'll be going scorched earth for sure after these are the ones you control right these are the ones you are up in this division go win your division go get a home playoff game they control their own destiny here take care of business in your divisional games so yeah we can maybe to a degree laugh off a kansas city loss like whatever like to a degree i'm guessing but these jacksonville games these houston games you've got to win them there must win it These are playoff games coming up, all right? These are must-win games if you want to go where you want to go this year.

So take care of business in the division and we can forgive this collapse in the fourth quarter. Yeah, no, the reason these post-game shows get so fiery in instances like this are because we know they are capable of playing better and countering the things we've seen do them in in recent games. You know what I mean? Like you mentioned Jones was under duress a lot against Denver and L.A. and we've seen them counter that just fine and, you know, be productive still. But like you said, Zach, you know, there may be some things creeping in, some doubt, some jitters.

And I don't know, it's just stuff they've got to get figured out because we've seen they can do it. So when they don't, and that's the reason they lose, it's just incredibly frustrating. And as a former player, I tell you, the players can appreciate how, mad the fans get. But I tell you, no one's more pissed off than they are. Oh, yeah. And fortunately, they're the only ones that can do something about it. Yeah, no question about it.

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