Locked On Colts - Daily Podcast On The Indianapolis Colts - COLTS SQUAD SHOW: Colts SURVIVE Cardinals to go to 5-1 | Indianapolis loses Charvarius Ward pregame

Episode Date: October 12, 2025

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Welcome to the Colts Squad Show. I'm your host, Derek Shultz, and I know it's not March, but survive in advance, fellas. And I'm Zach Hicks, and this version of Jonathan Taylor is easily the best version we've ever seen of him in the NFL. I'm Jake Arthur, and a win is a win, baby. Chalk it. I'm Alan Pinkett, former Euler, and somewhere inside that locker room, somebody singing Gloria Gaynor's song, I will survive. 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. Welcome into the Colts Squad Show. And thanks as always for making us your first list of the day here on the Lockdown Colts Network. this episode brought you by Mazda. Like our players, we sweat every detail because when you make every move count,

pulling off expected is only in the beginning. Stay tuned later for highlights in this week's moving the game forward. Mazda move and be moved. I'm Derek Schultz, a bit of sports soccer and indie for a long time. I'm joined by Notre Dame legend and former NFL running back Alan Pinkett and you every dayers, of course, no Bullsack Hicks. And we get a special treat because I was running behind. Jake Arthur is here as well.

He is done with his post-game duties from Lucas Loyal Stadium as we are recapping a close scrape, close shave for the Colts, but they escape with a win. A win is a win as a win. 31-27 over Arizona today to move to five and one. We'll talk about a very sloppy defensive performance, but an encouraging one still for the offense as they keep humming along. And the Colts surviving really when I think overall, I think we would all agree that this was not the best version of themselves that we've seen so far through six weeks. We'll look into Daniel Jones's performance, a little bit of an uneven day for him. Week six studs and duds on both sides of the ball. And I have a feeling that our studs category

is going to be filled with one unit, and our Duds category is going to be filled with the other unit. If you guys at home, watch that game, you probably know what I mean. And another key injury issue, which popped up at the last second, and you're thinking yourself, God, can this be possible?

Why are we having to go through this again? We'll discuss our various ward coming up later on in the program as well. But, Zach, let's kind of start there. Again, I'm actually going to lean optimistic here. I think it would be easy to get on. And we'll talk about the warts and we'll talk about the defense. And it was, you know, that unit did not cloak it. self and glory today. But if you're not going to have your A game to still come through and

survive a game effort from a team, look, Arizona, yeah, I know they lost the times last week. That's not the Raiders, right? That's not the dolphins. It's a competent and decent Arizona team. And I understand they have their backup quarterback and all of that. So I don't want to puff them up too much. But I think overall, you just take the wins as you've come. We've seen the Colts home letdown games before, all of us. I mean, they have at least. one of those seemingly every year and while it looked like they were heading in that direction today thankfully they were able to avoid it yeah and look in the NFL this was kind of more of just a snap back to reality of what the NFL is you know like you're not going to win every game by 30

in the NFL no matter who you're playing against so this is more of a common type of game you're going to get and the difference between the good and the bad teams are the ones that can pull through at the end of the games and which teams can just convert in the red zone late to to pull ahead in these ones. So this was just more of a normal type of Sunday game that you're going to get. You know, you're not your 30-point victories and your 40-point victories and stuff like that. And the Colts were able to prevail on this game. And I think it says a lot for just how well this team is coached and just how well the

operation is for the Colts where, you know, they had a lot of stuff happen pre-game, you know, from two injuries happening, one being the most important player on the defense going down mere, what, half an hour before the game started. And they were able to bounce back. can still get a win in this one. I know they were going against a lot of backups on the Cardinals' offense, and we'll talk about what the issues were for the Colts defense in this one. But at the end of the day, the Colts offense put up 31 points against the top 10 scoring defense.

The best scoring defense in the NFC coming into this game. The Colts are averaging 33.5 points per game scored at home this year, including two of those games being against the Broncos and the Cardinals now. This Colts offense is going to win them a lot of games. And look, again, you can say that they didn't do a lot of things you need. needs to do to win football games at a bad turnover from their quarterback in this one. They had some issues on defense that led to a lot of scores and big plays. But at the end of the day, the Colts got their victory, you know, and I don't care how

ugly or pretty it looks. You know, I'm just caring what it's going to look like here come January when we're looking at the playoff picture. We're counting this as a win and not as a loss, you know? So winning Cures All, as we always say on this show, it's kind of our slogan for this show. And moving to five and one with a big opportunity to win two of the next three and get into a really big lead here in the AFC going into that final stretch of seven games, I think is the end goal right now for the Colts.

So they got the win. We can move on to the Chargers and go from there. That's a really battle-tested team, man. I mean, on the surface, you know, the injuries pre-game, it just, it is what it is. But Shane Steichen felt the need to kind of rally the troops and get everybody back and focus because that was a rattled locker room and that happened. You know, Anthony Richardson, maybe the backup. quarterback but he is loved in that locker room charvarius ward everybody knows what he means of that

team he is also highly regarded in there so that was a blow to morale of this team before the game even started and so they were able to get things back together and and pull out a win i mean the defense i don't want to say it looked how you would expect it to because i do think the pass rush could have made things a whole lot easier if it existed uh few large chunks of this one But overall, you know, like Zach said, this is, this was a, this was good competition. And, you know, you looked at Daniel Jones performance specifically, and he started out really hot. And then just the middle of the game was a lot of meth. There was a lot of punts by both sides.

But then he goes and scores, he leads two touchdown drives that the Colts had to have in the fourth quarter, including the go-ahead score. And then that defense, that was much maligned all throughout the game, they come out and they get the one. one stop that they absolutely had to have in order for the team to win. And again, it's ugly, but it's a win. You know what I mean? Well, you guys have heard me say it time and time again. There's no bad teams in the NFL. There's only teams with bad records.

And on any given Sunday, a team can rise up. And these guys are pros. And that's why they make the money they make because they're the best in the world at what they do and nobody here heard of Zay Jones but he dropped 80 yards on that defense

you know and I wasn't familiar with Trey McBride but he looked every bit as good as Tyler Warren you know so there's talent that abounds and sometimes what happens

when you start to lose is teams will start to look to make a change go in a different direction and, you know, maybe cut your ass. So the only retribution you have is to show up on the field and play. And so I was not surprised at all that the Cardinals came out and played hard. And if you're a backup quarterback like Jacoby percent,

you're looking to get a starting role somewhere. What better stage than to go against a team that only has one loss? So the Cardinals had every reason to play hard, and they almost pulled it off. But I think the Colts, I've said that they are a mature team, and they showed it. And, you know, when someone gets injured, even though they are beloved in the locker room, you still have to go with that next man up theory. And if you're not that next man up, you do what you can personally to make the team better. I always talk about the time when Warren Moon got hurt on our team.

So collectively, we all just decided we need to play better. And unfortunately, doing that, the guy who was a backup guy named Cody Carlson, we got him $3 million because everybody started saying, oh, well, he's just as good as Warren. Hell no, he wasn't as good as hell. We just stepped our game up. But I think the Colts did that today. And they were a mature team because they knew not to get frustrated. You know, because they had to punt a couple of times, you know, which is weird for them.

But when it really counted, you know, they were able to go down and put points on the board. So I liken them to a modern-day Tiger Woods. They can beat you with their B game. Yeah, no, for sure. I think that's a great way to put it where, you know, the NFL is not about just like everyone needs to have this perfectly complete game to win in the NFL. There are some games where your defense carries a slack, some games where your offense carries. of slack. And I think we got to the point in like that middle of the third quarter where it was like, look, we're not going to get the stops we need on defense in this game. It's just not going to happen

unless we get a bounce to go our way. So the offense had to turn it up a notch. And you have to give credit to Shane Steichen, Daniel Jones, Jonathan Taylor, all those guys for taking that challenge, turning it up a notch and again shredding one of the best defenses in football that entire second half. The Cardinals are a really competitive team. They've lost four games this year by a combined total of nine points. And a lot of those games, they've had leads going to the fourth quarter like they had today, right? I think they were leading going to the fourth quarter today, or it was at least a tie game going into the fourth. They are a feisty team that they fight for every inch in the NFL. So they are a tough team to play against. They're not the Raiders. They're not

the Dolphins. They're not the Titans. I know they lost the Titans, but they're not the Titans, you know. That was just a crazy game last week for them. And I think this shows a lot of just the grit that the Colts have of a team. You know, one thing that Jake and I said all week on our regular show about this game was just the difference is going to be the Colts just being a mature football team that is ready for the moment. And the Cardinals just haven't shown that this year. And while I think the Cardinals actually exchanged a couple good punches and then when

they got to the fourth quarter was still moving the ball pretty well, ultimately it came down to Shane Steichen and Daniel Jones just being ready for the moment and being calm, poised, going down there, drawing up open plays, delivering good shots down the field to wide open players, and then getting those touchdowns they needed. So I know we're going to talk more about Daniel Jones in segment two, but I think the way the Colts responded in that second half on offense to pick up the slack that their defense was leaving out there, that's the mark of a good football team. I mean, we look around the league at the best teams in the league. You know, even if you have a top defense, you're not going to hold teams down to 10 points every single

week. There's going to be some weeks where an opposing play caller just has the best of your defense and vice versa. So your other unit needs to pick up the slack. And what we saw today was the Colts offense at home is just a well-oiled machine. They picked up the slack. And even against a very good physical, strong Cardinals defense, they ripped them apart in the second half. And your defense can be strong, but one of the things I admire about this offense is they don't give up on the running game. I've been on teams where you're just getting. in two yards, one yard, three yards. And they're like, put that play on the shelf.

We're not going to use it again. But in the Colts offense, they know the more you run, all those two and three yard duds are eventually going to bust. And the running game over the course of a game is going to wear that defense down more than anything else. And that's why, you know, I think the Colts are blessed to have a guy like Jonathan Taylor who always has his feet moving. who's heavy enough to run over backs, who is not going to get injured by people

hitting them because he's so thick. And he is basically the knockout punch for this star-studded offense. Yeah. Another thing I think about the rush offense, Alan, is that, you know, Daniel Jones is not the guy that he was in 2022 moving with his legs, but he's been opportunistic about being able to escape or make a big play. you know, I look at that scoring drive that tied the game there in the fourth quarter and he started things off with it with a 17-yard run. And then that's before he hits Pierce and before he hits downs and then

boom, before you know it, it's tied. And it feels like, Zach, he's had a couple of those this year. I mean, I go back to the Tennessee game. That set the tone for the whole game when he escaped from what looked like a sure sack and turned that into a 15, 16, whatever ended up yard gainage. It was and turned into a Colts touchdown drive. Yeah, I don't want to go too much in the Jones here. because I know we're going to get to him after the break, and I know Jake had something you wanted to say there. But one thing I do want to clarify about Jones is for anyone saying, like, oh, he's gotten back to 2022 Jones.

He is not 22, Daniel Jones. He is playing at a much, much higher level than what he did that year with the Giants. A lot of his production in that 2022, 2020 season with the New York Giants, was a lot of rushing production from him and a lot of yards after catch by receivers and running back, especially say Juan Barclay. back field. This is just a really good quarterback play. Like even when he has bad moments. So he had the bad interception to start this game. We're seeing him bounce back and do some really good things for this Colts team. Like this is not like 2020 Jones was was fine. Like a good game manager

quarterback that moved the ball forward, ran with his legs a lot and got the Giants into the playoff position. This Daniel Jones is a legitimate top 10 quarterback in football the way he's playing. And I say this as again, I'd say this every single week. I did not even somewhat believe in him coming into the season. And he's made a huge believer out of me to the point where I'm saying that he's just been an outstanding football player this year. So, yeah, Daniel Jones has been great for the Colts. Yeah, we question what his impact would be on the run game, because with Anthony

Richardson, it opened up so many things for Jonathan Taylor because defenses had to kind of pick their poison. But, you know, Jones, you know, the method throughout this season so far, Zach, as you've mentioned, they pass, pass, past, past early on. and then they kill it with Jonathan Taylor in the second half. And Jones is making that possible because he's been so efficient. Now, again, he threw the pick. He had some lumps here today.

But overall, he is keeping defenses honest and making them able to run the ball. And speaking to run of the ball, they ran for 150 yards on one of the best run defenses today, averaged over five yards per carry when Arizona wasn't even allowing four yards per carry coming into this. So the Colts, I think because of how the defense looked, it made everything kind of ugly and they punted more often. And they just looked a little bit more like a normal offense than the Buzz saw offense were used to seeing. But I mean, at the end of the day, whatever their strategy

that they want to accomplish week to week, it kind of came to fruition today. Yeah, I mean, the offense keeps on rolling. And a lot of that has to do with Jones, who even though maybe the middle portion of the game wasn't the best, started strong and finished strong, which is what you want your quarterback to do, especially the latter.

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i can go run some errands uh you know you're thinking the raiders game you think of the dolphins game you think of whatever else and then of course it was it was much tighter and much closer than that but you know i wanted to focus on the last two drives of the game you know jones go six and seven six for seven um and the colts really they needed touchdowns on both of those um and you know the defense gave up a field goal and then we're able to get a turnover on downs but but really you weren't wanting to be in a situation where you had to trust your defense with the game on the line um and instead because the colts scored touchdowns in both of those you felt like okay well um you know we're in a situation here where we're in the driver's seat.

You're in control the game instead of kind of coming from behind. And I just think that's where, you know, it's funny, Jake, a lot of the talk about Daniel Jones was that, okay, game manager, if you have the lead, if you don't make him win you the game, you're fine. He's, he's okay, but he's not going to win you the game. He's not going to march down the field, get a game time touchdown drive.

He's not going to get a game winning touchdown time. That's not Daniel Jones. We've watched him for six years, right? And he's proving all of those things wrong by what he's done this year. I mean, he's been, he's been good with a lead. He's been good from behind. He's, he's been good basically everywhere that the Colts had needed him. Yeah, I don't really appreciate that call out for me and Zach so much there. I was saying the same thing. We're all six things. No, but I mean, that's, that's what? That's two fourth quarter comeback victories

for Jones this year in times where they had to have points. And regardless of how he was performing up to that, he came up big with those. And, you know, it, of course, goes hand in hand with Shane Steichen as well. I think they just went back to playing what was working for them earlier in the game. Tyler Warren bailing them out. Josh Downs, winning those quick little matchups and then creating more yards after the catch, getting first downs when they needed to have them. You know, the officiating helped both sides at times.

It kind of worked against both sides as well. But it was just, it was the natural rhythm of a game, but the Colts going back to what they felt comfortable would work. And then, of course, in the second half, Jonathan Taylor is just, he's not from this planet you know like he is he is so good and i think zach tweeted out this he's he's offensive player the year so far it's like yeah who else is you don't have like a juggernaut option for mvp right now and then he is heads head and shoulders above the other running backs at the moment so yeah like jonathan taylor's putting a stamp on it the same way that you should consider

daniel jones among top five or six for mvp right now legitimately uh but yeah this this this team just came back and just it's just so different from the past because they always found ways to overthink things or beat themselves or make a costly mistake at the worst times. And they're just not doing that. They've actually become like a really clutch team, which we're just not used to seeing around here from a quarterback you mentioned in Daniel Jones, who was not really thought of as a clutch quarterback. Yeah.

And I think the most important thing with Daniel Jones this year, two things. One, his performance under pressure this year has just been fantastic. And that's the Daniel Jones we've never even seen in his whole life, going back to college, going back to his best years with the Giants. He's never been great under pressure. But this year, he's a completely different man in that regard. He has just been very comfortable, very confident against pressure. He knows where the ball needs to go. So even if he's getting hit, he's delivering the I mean, the throw to Pierce, I believe he took a hit on his throw to Pierce up the seam, was the best throw of the day.

And that's what got the Colts, one of those touchdowns there. Then, yeah, another great throw to Pierce. I had a couple good throws to Warren under pressure as well. The throw to Moe Alley Cox to get like a 20-yard gain where he got hit as he threw it early in the game. Like, he's playing extremely well under pressure this year. And the other one is just the lack of panic in his game in general, the ability to learn on the fly throughout these games. I mean, the horrible interception on the naked bootleg. I don't know why he threw that ball.

You got to, I mean, the linebacker has so much depth. You have to use your legs there. What do we see him do later in the game on a naked boot leg? He runs it. He runs it because he should have run it earlier. He learned from that moment and I'm going to take the yards that are in front of me. And then we saw another naked boot later where he slipped and he threw it around the defender to Tyler Warren for a 20-yard game.

So even like even in game we're seeing this improvement. We're seeing him, even if he throws a pick early in the game, seeing him bounce back and not let it spiral, not let it turn into all of a sudden he's giant Daniel Jones again. No, he's still Colts Daniel Jones. She has made one mistake and coming back and still leading touchdown drives. So he's just playing like a veteran quarterback at a different level that we've ever seen from him, just in terms of the lack of panic, just in terms of just how comfortable and confident he looks at all times. And it's getting to the point, like I said on the last squad show where it's like, it's almost boring to talk.

about Daniel Jones because he's just doing what you expect now every week. He's getting into that like Andrew Luck territory where it's like, do we really have to talk about him? Like we know he's going to be good for us each week because he's performing each and every week, even his worst games. Like if you want to say this is one of his worst games in the year, that's fine because the other ones have been so great. But when the Colts needed him most, he came out there and delivered. So yeah, again, I was not a believer whatsoever coming to the year, but Daniel Jones has just been fantastic for the Colts. And I really, can't say enough on on how big he was late in this game you know the difference between the

good teams and the great teams in the NFL are the quarterbacks that can steal games the quarterbacks that can just deliver when the game matters the most and steal wins for your team and in that fourth quarter he stole he stole a win for the Colts like I'm not saying that they certainly deserve to lose this game but he was the better quarterback in the fourth quarter and that was the difference in this game so Daniel Jones was awesome I thought he was great today especially in that second half. Well, if 22 out of 30 for 212 yards, 2Ds is a bad game, I'll take that every time. Three TDs. That's right. Three total TDs. And I did have my doubts, but my doubts because I didn't appreciate him coming into Notre Dame Stadium and beat Notre Dame when he was

a senior at Duke. Duke is never supposed to beat Notre Dame. And after he beat Duke, I knew, okay, this kid is going to be a first-round draft pick. That's sort of how it works. You come up, you beat Notre Dame at Notre Dame, your draft status gets elevated. And, you know, I think what he's done is he's logged all those bad things in his memory, sort of like all these other quarterbacks that we see having success, and put them there as learning experiences.

So if you get that chance again, you're not going to be. make that same mistake. And so he has been very efficient. And you talked about that throw to Alec Pierce, who I love to call the Labrador Retriever. But because he, there's nothing more important in the world than him getting that ball. And Labrador receiver. Receiver. Okay. There's a dad joke we needed. Yeah. Guilty. Right up, right up my alley. But that, that, that, throw was, you know, from a fundamental standpoint, you know, that was one of the finer throws I saw all of today, you know, watching a handful of games. So he definitely has the talent. He's got confidence. And we always, we talked about does confidence breed success or does success breed

confidence? He's got them both now. I don't know which one came first, but he's got it now. but he's in a situation now where his supporting cast is so good and they're making him look good, but he's also making them look good because he's getting the ball, he's placing the ball in the right spot. And I do recall a throw that was kind of low to Tyler Warren that ended up being incomplete. But then when you look at the replay and you see the defender come in the screen on the slow, motion you understand why he threw it low so he wouldn't get his tight end killed so he's doing those little things those detail things that are making them good and you know how in the beginning of the year we talked about if the if the Colts had won four more of the four of those

one score games that they lost they went into playoffs you know it takes a mature team to win one-score games. I'll just use as an example. Last year's Chiefs, how many one-score games, real close games, did they win? And what did that get them? The Super Bowl, a Super Bowl

invite. So even though you got your butt kicked in the Super Bowl, still getting there. I know Buffalo is still proud. When I was playing, they went four times and got their butt kicked every time, but they still went.

So they got a second place ring. Yeah, no, for sure. Yeah, I mean, winning the one-score games, you know, we always say it's volatile and it's hard to predict. But one thing that is a sustainable year over year is, like, teams like the Eagles, teams like the Chiefs, they win those one-score games. So we can keep saying that they're going to take a step back. But even when they do, they end up still winning like 10, 11, 12 games because they are those type of teams. And yeah, Daniel Jones just performed all day. I do want to give a shout out, though, to the Colts offense where I just couldn't cut it as

offensive coordinator in the league I realized because I'd be too like the second something's not working I'd want to just tear it all up and start over again and be like you know what my 12 and 13 personnel isn't working we're going empty the rest of the game you know because that's just how I am I get frustrated I'm like we're going to the easy stuff but with the colts man they came out early 12 13 personnel a lot of heavier sets a lot of plays where it was obeltery and and o'allie cox on the field because they were running heavy 13 personnel with tyler warren at fullback and even when it wasn't working in that middle stretch of the game they stuck with it they stuck with it they stuck with that those heavier personnel sets and it really clicked late you know clicked on those naked bootlegs late it clicked on getting those those uh post shots to to pierce and and getting some quick hitters to downs i know downs was probably more in like the 11 and 12 personnel stuff but um they stuck with their game plan all the way and it really opened up in the second half for them so credit to Shane stuyken for trusting his advanced scouts trusting what they had repaired for the week and when it did run into that that rut there in like that second quarter, not falling away from it, just continuing on as the game went on,

continuing on the Jonathan Taylor train, as Alan says every week where they stick with the run game, they stuck with it and Taylor did his thing. But I do appreciate that the Colts, you know, they have their plan of attack. And even if it's not working for a little stretch of the game, they don't panic like I would and go, you know, all empty, all receivers on the field, no running backs, no tight ends. Because it takes a lot to stick with it during that. I think the Colts deserve the credit for that. Yeah, that trust has been earned, right? Because that's how good the offense has been. So we're almost in a position where you're watching at home.

And even when something doesn't appear to be working, you just sort of trust the process, if you will, because that process has been working out for them. But I wanted just one last thought on Daniel Jones. And this really stuck with me, Zach. I saw that you tweeted this earlier today. In order to be a real contender in the NFL, you have to have a quarterback that can steal your games late.

And it's amazing that Jones is in that category. And it almost reminds me, I know we have IU football cults people on this show. It's almost like you have to forget about everything that you previously knew about IU football. You definitely have to do that, right? You throw it all out. I wonder if we're reaching the point where you just have to forget it, but everything that you thought you knew about Daniel Jones

and just kind of treat it only as future facing now because it just feels like everything about him, everything about the Hoosiers. It's just different, man. It's just it's not the same. It's not what you saw a year, two years, God, for IU, 100 years. I mean, it's been a century of being terrible. and now with where they are.

And it's just, it's, sometimes that happens in sports where you just have to kind of toss and burn all of the receipts. Yeah, 29 points against the Broncos defense. The Broncos defense to get 40 yards passing today against, I know the Jets are terrible,

but like, they're a defense to get 40 yards passing in a game. They're a pretty darn good defense. Colts drop 29 on them, 31 on a very good Cardinals defense, the number one scoring defense in the NFC coming into today. The Rams defense should have been in the 30s in that game weren't for drop touchdowns and stuff.

Like, I just don't know. what more people need to see from Daniel Jones at this point. Again, no bigger hater out there than me coming into the year. And I'm fully bought in on what he's doing. I just follow what my eyes are telling me. My eyes are saying he's playing some really good football. They almost have 500 yards against the Broncos.

Yeah. The offense is just a machine right now, especially at home. They're just not going to be slowed down at home. Yeah. Some familiar faces were studs this week. While the defense turned in some dud performances, we're talking studs and duds when we come back on the Colts squad show.

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As well as we're recapping the Colts 3127 win over the Cardinals I think the Studs category is pretty self-explanatory. So did you guys want to start with it? We've done a lot of optimism so far. Let's go ahead and, you know, we're halfway through the show now. Let's go ahead and talk about the warts. Zach, where do you want to start duds-wise? Because I think you have a couple to choose from.

Yeah, I think this was the first game of the year where Luanna Rameau was just out-coached by the opposing coach out there. And a lot of people were saying, where was the pass rush? Why was everything so terrible out there? Well, really what happened? And this is a very simplistic way to break it down. But the main issue that happened today is Drew, Drew Hetzing, the offense coordinator for the Arizona Cardinals, noticed how weak the Colts secondary was with their absences

at corner, especially with your various ward beating out. And they ran Max Protect on a lot of these plays. It was three receivers versus seven defensive players in the back end. And outside of the Colts' safeties, they didn't really have a good cover guy back there. And he was trusting those three receivers to get open against seven. and Lou Anurmo struggled to adjust to that. So for as much as we want to put on the pass rush being like, the pass rush wasn't able to get home,

there was six blockers, seven blockers back there against your four rushers. So for me, what I would have done, again, in hindsight and watching from home, you've got a blitz. And like, look, at the end of the day, you've got to blitz at that. If they're going to keep seven guys into block, you've got to bring more pressure. You've got to bring more diversity of pressure. And even if it leaves your Jonathan Edwards, your other guys on islands, forced your clobber set to make a good throw, you know, down the

field. Don't give him six seconds in the backfield to find a tight end that's breaking free underneath, or at least, at least if you're going to have seven guys covering three, double some people up in man coverage, you know? I just think there were better ways to approach that attack. And I feel like the Colts were just woefully underprepared for the possibility that that's what the Cardinals were going to do in this game, which, again, you have to give credit to a guy like Petzing who just called a fantastic game. I mean, look what Jacoby Brissette was able to do against his Colts defense. And we can say, like, oh, the Colts were missing Tarvarious War, their most important

player. But look at who the Cardinals are rolling out there on offense. Jacoie Preset, Michael Carter, Bam Knight, who were their receivers by the end of the game? Zay Jones and Michael Wilson. And Michael Wilson, that was the name, Michael Wilson. So, like, yeah, for everything we want to say about the Colts secondary being short-handed, the Cardinals are very short-handed. on offense. I just think Lou Aniru needed to adjust better in that second half, and he just

unfortunately didn't do it. You need to just do something else. The four-man rush with dropping seven against the three receivers just wasn't working. And I don't like when it comes to the cornerback play, right? I think Jonathan Edwards got picked on a lot in this game. And Al and I were talking right before we jumped on. It's the difference between an experienced corner and an experienced corner where Edwards I think was right there on every single catch his hand was in there on every single catch but an experienced corner breaks that ball up an experienced corner finds a way to separate man from ball and that's where Edwards really struggled but yeah the bigger issue is probably the linebacker's just not covering anything in there which again like it's hard because the Cardinals

called such a great did such a great job bringing six offensive linemen on the field to do those max protect passing plays and you don't want to put dying person personnel against six offensive linemen because then they can run all over you. So they were bringing six offensive linemen on the field to keep the Colts linebackers out there and then throwing at the linebackers. It was just like, yes, not having Traverius Ward is a big part of this, but Luanna Ramon, the Colts defensive staff just really got outcoached, outcoached. And they just didn't have the talent on defense to overcome how outcoached they were today.

So you're happy that you survived a game like this, but there's got to be some soul searching after this where it's like we got to figure out how we can adjust to situations like this because having liabilities that linebacker and coverage is going to open up teams doing more of this max protect stuff and then if we obviously don't have the corners on the outside to cover these guys then teams are going to do this a lot going forward so yes i do think the pass rush could have been better but i think more of the issue in this game was just the colts not adjusting to what the cardinals did the cardinals basically daring the colts to keep two linebackers on the field at all times and testing these young corners, and they just didn't have the talent to make up for the Audible, basically, that the Cardinals called against them.

It's crazy, because, yeah, go ahead, Alan. I didn't pick up the Max Pro, but that's a great observation because what happens in a situation like this is you spend so much time scouting the other team that you got to scout yourself sometimes. Right. And you got to see what's working and what's not working. And so here's the thing. It's on film now. So every team in the league, when they play the cults, they saw the success the cards had. They're going to use that same program when they go against the cults.

So you better come up with some alternatives. And I'm sure he didn't want to commit to a Max Blitz and really leave his corners on an island. And, you know, hopefully they get your various back next week and at least have one guy out there that can cover. But it's a great lesson, and it's one of those where you're fortunate to get to win, but you scout yourself and you figure out what you need to do to make an impact defensively. It's crazy because last week, Cardinals fans were wanting Drew Petzing run out of town, their offensive coordinator. And just also me overhearing, you know, people with the Cardinals, media and stuff around the building today, you know, fans are also calling for Jacoby Brissette to be the quarterback now. I think Jonathan Gannon was even asked if Kyler Murray is their starting quarterback. So the Colts defense did allow the narratives to shift in a couple different ways for the Cardinals' offense.

But, yeah, it's, it's, I almost feel like I want to protect Jonathan. Edwards in this one. You know what I mean? It's like you're an under a undrafted rookie was thrust into 60 or 70 plays essentially 45 minutes or an hour before the game happens. You think you're going to have Charberius Ward, but instead you have an undrafted rookie from Tulane by way of Indiana State. Not quite the same. He was a rotational corner at Tulane last year, by the way. He's at a great camp and he's got great traits but yeah he just wasn't ready for the moment yeah i can't totally like he looked exactly like you would think i mean Arizona's receivers aren't awesome and you know Marvin harrison junior went out of this one pretty early as well um but yeah the linebackers

were one of the most glaring issues and it's like yeah sire franklin and germain pratt are you're going to be able to pick on them on that short stuff inside the sticks that's where Jacobi Berset is at home anyways, you know what I mean? So it kind of fell right into the personnel that the Cardinals actually did have available to them. I did think they did pretty well against the run overall, though, obviously. Some hits and misses, but yeah, it's, it kind of went how you would expect it to. They got to get some guys back. Like Jalen Carlize, I hope that Jalen Carlizes everything they thought he was.

going to be for them to neglect the linebacker position as badly as they did this offseason. Otherwise, that's just, that's going to be the position that annually we all yell about and Chris Ballard didn't address. I mean, I don't want to totally pile on Ballard because he's done some masterful things this year. But did we not complain about linebacker all year and say, hey, you don't have anyone in coverage other than Carly's? You don't have any competition for Carly's.

And then Carlis has spent like five minutes healthy this entire calendar year. Yeah. And I got to tell you this, I felt, I felt a little worried when I saw Zaire Franklin split out wide with the running back. Because I remember back in my days, you and everybody, you and everybody felt worried. If I had a linebacker on me, oh, my God, I was looking my chops. I'm going to make you look so bad. You know, so credit to Zaire Franklin, you know, for making play. or just Jacoby percent being off by a little bit because usually a running back wins

that competition 11 out of 10 times and so it was one of those things where the Colts were fortunate but yet that probably needs to be addressed too how do you address that dime protection yeah I think the big thing for the Colts what again they should have either thrown some more blitzes in there just to really get after him or I think it should have just been more like trap coverage or more just more like double teams on on key like hey if they're going to keep throwing a jonathan edwards let's instead of having the safety like over the middle of the field covering like the seams or whatever let's go too high and keep one over top of edwards so edwards can play more aggressive underneath and then we have that protection over the

top and said we're leaving i mean the first third and seventeen conversion it was edwards versus tray mcbride and mcbride had the whole left side of the field to himself with no safety over the top against an undrafted rotational corner from Tulane. Like, this is where we got to. Make sure you get that in there, too, Zazu play. We got to be a little bit better there. I think with that call, I understand what Lou is trying to do. We got the Ashton Duelan Blitz in there, which is great.

But I think we need to have a little bit better of a play call for that there. So we'll see how they change. But real quick, though, before we get out of studs and duds, because I just have been wanting to talk about them all episode here. Jonathan Taylor, I know we talked about it a little bit throughout this. the level he is playing at is unreal. Maybe he was just more forward explosive in 2021, and he had all the touchdowns and the gaudy stats that year.

But this is the best running back performance I've seen from him. Like, not just this game, this whole season. Like, he is playing at a level that is unreal right now. Like, he is so hard to tackle. And, like, Alan, Alan can speak to this more so than I can, but it's we talk about hidden yardage a lot in the NFL and like Josh Downs I put a whole video up last week that Josh Downs is the king of hidden yardage when it comes to a receiver play but Jonathan Taylor turning one yard gains into seven yard gains turning negative three

yard gains into four yard gains like this is the key to the Colts offense it's the most important aspect besides Daniel Jones is Jonathan Taylor's ability to just keep moving that ball forward and then he still gives you the big plays too I mean we in we even go to the catching. He's been the best catching of his career too. That catch he had today that should have been a one-yard gain turned into a 13-yard gain in the flat. It is unreal how good he is playing right now. It is a different level of running back. And I thought, like, you know, the way Derek Henry's played the last couple of years was on the other level and stuff like that. But Taylor's doing it in all phases. He looks strong. He looks fast. He looks nimble. He's

making guys missing the backfield and getting positive yards. I mean, I can't say enough about Jonathan Taylor. We've always said for the last couple of years that he's been a superstar player, but this year he has been a super superstar player for the Colts. And he is, honestly, he's got as much to do with the Colts success as Daniel Jones does this year. Well, it's all about staying on the field. And if you are a detriment to the team when it comes to receiving, that's less you're going to be on the field. So you've got to teach yourself how to catch. And I remember early in my career, I was okay at receiving, but I really put the work in to understand how to catch the ball because you know why it keeps you on the field. And if you're on the field, you're able to make more plays.

And if you're able to make more plays, you gain more confidence. And they're going to throw to you more. You know, so to me, it's all about being able to stay on the field being an every downback. Who else said that? Edron, didn't Edron James say that? he didn't say he was a running back. He said it was an every downback. And so it's the more you can do, the more valuable you'll be. And if you can do it receiving as well as running, then so be it. And good things happen when you keep your legs moving and your knees going upward and have good forward body lean. And those are things just fundamentally that he has that keeps them getting extra yards. of those hidden yards they take a toll on the defense because this dude is heavy he's not some little scat back running in there he's actually heavy leaning on you and if you're a defensive

back you don't want any part of that can i fit in one more stud guys i understand that this is a cult show but this guy's tied to the cults jacobby brissette's been in the league 10 years now you know what i mean like like good for jacobi brissette honestly there's a reason why he's on six NFL teams in the last six years, right? And he was never, I think in the post, the immediate post Andrew Luck world, you wanted the next girl to be, see, that's my new girlfriend.

She's better than the old one. You know what I mean? Like, I think people wanted Brissette to be something that he just wanted. They got out to that five at two start. People were talking about him. Oh, he's MVP. Like, he was never anywhere close to that. But at the end of the day, good for him.

He's made a really nice NFL career for himself, being exactly what he is today. Always ready. And in a pinch, if you need him, to try to win one game he can either do it or get you really close to doing it and i i think he played tremendously today um and i thought that he deserved to be on our stud category even though obviously this is the close one he's not a colt yeah we can say that because the colts won yeah no chance we'd be saying that that darn jacobie but i will say this i was a little nervous

coming this game because jacobie with his last six stops he's either been like a top 15 quarterback in the league with them or like barely rosterable and I was like this might be one of the ones where he's like a legit quarterback because petzing is such a good OC in my opinion I didn't even know cardinals fans were trying to run him out of town until Jake said it on this because I think he's awesome so I was a little nervous that he was the backup there I mean he's a he's one of the best backups in football he's a very good quarterback he's not a starter for most teams but like he's probably better than some of the guys starting around the league right now second most important position on field because if the quarterback goes down, they need somebody reliable and you don't have to do

what the starter does. You just have to be able to maintain. And you can become a very rich man being a backup quarterback. So, you know, tribute to Jacob. One of the most important Colts landed back on the injury report and another prominent name joined him, both just minutes before kickoff, all kinds of chaos before kickoff between the Colts and Cardinal State. We'll talk about that when the Colts squad show returns for the final segment. This portion of the show brought to you by our friends at Fandul. The NFL season is here. Fan Duel is making sure you're ready for kickoff with a can't miss offer.

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3127. And Jake, I think we have to lead with you because unlike the three of us, you were there. So you are our boots on the ground, right? And here, you know, Charverius Ward and Drew Ogletree, I guess, run into each other. And Anthony Richardson injures himself with some exercise equipment. I mean, God, it was chaotic there. And then we didn't even get to the fact A.D. Mitchell was a healthy scratch today because that ended up being like the third or fourth storyline when it came to the Colts injury report.

Yeah, I thought A.D. Mitchell being a healthy scratch. was going to be the light story of inactives up until they actually came out, just because, you know, Alec Pierce was available this week. And so the Colts kind of got to do what they likely intended to do last week. But yeah, and then I saw Anthony Richardson was on there. I'm like, hold up. That never really fit into the plans. So it turns out he gets injured.

And then it's kind of just, you know, labeled that as a just a mishap with the resistance bands and that he was still going to be QB3 and i was like that doesn't really add up so we did a little more digging and turns out he's going to be truly inactive and then Shane stuyken reveals afterward that he had as an orbital bone fracture and had to go to the hospital for it um no timetable on that yet uh i asked about that i will have to do more research about how long guys are normally out for that i don't know if he'll at least be short-term IR or whatever. But for now, Riley Leonard is your backup quarterback. I've got to imagine if Anthony's going to be out any length of time that results in even short-term IR. They're going to

go work some guys out, maybe even trade for someone like the Bengals were doing where they were calling around teams that had three quarterbacks. So we'll see there. And then, you know, Charveris Ford, that one, that one really stinks because that guy just missed a game in week two with a concussion. It's such a freak, just like goofy thing to happen. I don't know what Drew Ogletree was doing, but Charvarius Ward is out there, you know, running some defensive back drills, you know, practicing interceptions and whatnot. And Ogletree just runs onto the field and crushes them. Like, I'm sure Ogletree was paying attention to something else. But just such a weird flabbergasting thing to happen twice in one day. Like, I can't recall the last time any cold

players have been injured in warm-ups and missed the game. And they had two in this same instance. I mean, Anthony's the backup. He probably wasn't into play. But like Zach alluded to earlier, Traverius Ford is a very, very critical piece of your offense. I mean, we saw what it looked like in week two against the Broncos when they didn't have him. It was horrendous. So hopefully, I mean, health first for him again, two concussions within like, what, four or five weeks.

Like, hopefully he's going to be all right in a very short term for him. But, you know, team-wise, you got the chargers next week. You kind of need your top defensive back out there. Yeah. So to defend drool, which read us a little bit, because I watched the video a couple of times trying to understand what happened. It looked like he was doing, he was running down the line to catch a pass from another assistant coach that was there. And they just ran the drills too close together.

Just poor communication from whatever was going on there. It doesn't even look like many people were on the field at that point when it happened. And they ran into each other. I had the same thing actually happened to me. high school with line drills where I ran into a guy who was a tight end. I didn't get up very fast either, like Travis Ward didn't in this one. So I totally understand just the mess that can happen with that. But yeah, it's unfortunate, especially because like, look, Richardson's probably going to go on IR with a fracture to his orbital bone. The Colts will have to get up another

quarterback here to be QB3 going forward. And then with Traverius Ward, I mean, second concussion in like a month here, that might be an IR stint for him as well. And we can kind of segue this conversation into that Colts got to make a move here at corner. It's a must. I love Jonathan Edwards. I think there's some potential there long term, but like I love him as like a four to six snap guy this year. I don't love him as a 60 snap guy this year. And you're really not going to get anything that can play outside corner on the free agent market.

I know people are saying Stefan Gilmore, but Gilmore can't run the way that you need him to. He's 35. Yeah. The scheme is pressman. Like Edwards was there in a lot of these press man things. and he's 6'2 running a 4-3, and he was struggling in this pressman scheme. Like, they need big, tall, fast corners.

So they need to make a move for a corner, like, sooner rather than later. And then, honestly, it sounds like they're going to be big fish hunting at edge rusher as well. So we could see an active Colts team when it comes to the trade deadline, which, you know, we really don't ever see in the NFL. The NFL is usually not the sport for active trade deadlines. But when you're a 5-1 team with the issues the Colts have on defense, especially in secondary because I've seen some people say like oh wait until jalen Jones comes back he's going to be able to step in I don't get the vibe that he's going to be over some of these other guys here so I think they need to get an outside guy or two at corner because they they certainly need some corner back help I think we're going to see a move in some regard to a veteran corner whether it's a free agent signing just someone big who can run or a minor trade like they got to get just another body in here at this point

Well, I'll tell you this, I mean, when you practice all week long and you've got to sometimes, some teams will hit in practice, but you go through the rigors of practice, you know, both the mental practice and the physical practice, you know, one thing that will really piss you off, getting hurt and warmups, you know, and I was always a type of guy. I'm going to make myself sound really old, but I didn't even want to see the field until it was time to take snaps. You know, when I was with the Oilers, we had two buses that would leave the hotel. There was an early bus if you wanted to get there sooner because most times you can get there two hours for a kick. Some guys would go early. I know our offensive linemen would go early. I would always take the second bus. And I didn't want to get there with so much time to think about stuff. I wanted to get there and play.

And I didn't go out on the field in shorts. to just take a core of the stadium. That was what the walkthrough was the day before. That's why we did that. I just wanted to get there and play. So I don't help me understand why guys got to be on the field four hours before kick, running around in shorts, when you're going to run around for 60 minutes anyway.

So how much more practice do you need or how much more warmups do you need before? pick to make sure that you're ready. So I think, I don't know, I know I sound like to get off my lawn guy, you know, but when it comes to pregame, that's what it is. It's free. So just get a nice little sweat up and get ready because I want all of my energy saved for those 60 minutes that are going to happen during the game. I think that's all it was, though, was just getting the sweat on. I mean, if you look at what was happening,

it was these guys were in shorts. It looks like War just did his little back pedal and then opened up to a post. And that was it and was just going to jog it out. And then Drew Ogletree was jogging it out just to catch some passes from 10 yards away. And it ended up being just a freak thing. It's just crazy they both happened in the same day, obviously. And again, credit to Shane Steichen and this Colts team for winning a game, when that happens right before you start.

Again, having two players get knocked out 30 minutes before the game starts. Like, it's a blow when it happens in game, but you're like, you have the adrenaline going. You have everything else going. It, like, you can adjust on the fly in the game because that's expected. But to have, like, I don't want to say the, like, tragedies to happen before the game, but to have two, like, big things like that happen right before the game starts, it's like, man, like, to bounce back from that again, again, it's a physical and feisty Arizona team, I think, speaks to the Colts,

But yeah, all eyes now go to this next game against the Chargers where they got to get bodies in here, like especially at corner. They need to get other bodies in here that can play because this defense is real. Like, again, we could say they got outschemed today, but I think this is the first time they've been outschemed all year long on defense. Like the Charger or the Rams game, Stafford just was Stafford in that one. Other games, the Colts defense has played fairly well, in my opinion. But they can't survive getting outschemed right now.

because they don't have the talent on defense. They have so many entries on defense right now that they really just need to get some guys back or get some new bodies in here because they just don't have the talent to run with the top teams. Real quick for me, every indication from this team so far leading up to now is that they're going to have to.

They will do something. Not only do they have to, but they actually will. Because think about the defense, they've had a million injuries, but they immediately go out and make corresponding moves to plug those holes and this now is a team that absolutely you know internally i'm sure they have championship aspirations to them there should be no reason why they can and so you cannot let these injuries derail your season you have got to go out and do something about it and you know

we saw luana rumo got ran out of Cincinnati because of a lack of personnel he was not able to be louisina rumo because of what he was left with in terms of of the players. And so we've seen Lou absolutely cook when he's given really good ingredients to play with, you know. So they've got to keep it up. I know it's about midseason at this point. There's only so many options. But everything they've done at this point is indicating to us that they're going to have to make some moves. Yeah, and I'm not trying to doom and gloom, but two concussions in six weeks, even if award bounces back quickly, that's serious stuff. You know, two and six weeks is a lot that that's not playing this week and i don't i don't think

they're going to have him for at least the next two weeks but i think it might be an i r stint for yeah no i think you're right about that thanks for joining us on the colt squad show we're a place for live game recaps following each and every colts game this season but we'll have a wednesday show too coming up at nine o'clock we'll be back with you on wednesday to recap the injury report and first practice of the week and get you set for the chargers but until then follow us on locked on colts on socials and check out our other great content on youtube and we'll see you next time right here on the colt squad show All right.