Locked On Colts - Daily Podcast On The Indianapolis Colts - CROSSOVER: MVP Campaigns for Colts' Jonathan Taylor, Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes Take Center Stage

Episode Date: November 20, 2025

The Indianapolis Colts (8-2) look to continue their winning ways, while Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs (5-5) try to avoid a season knockout punch.Chris Clark (@ChrisClarkNFL) and Ryan Trac...y (@RyanTracyNFL) of Locked On Chiefs join to break down the main storylines, biggest matchups, and most significant keys to victory. Become a Locked On Colts insider! Ask your burning questions and get prompt answers from someone who's around the team every day! Get special access from the locker room, practice field, and press box! JOIN 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/UCLdpxJspi1hMh5HL7ExpWOQLocked On NFL League-Wide: Every Team, Fantasy, Draft & More🎧 https://lockedonpodcasts.com/podcasts/locked-on-nfl/ Follow Jake's written work on roundtable.io/sports/nfl/colts/ and Zach's on si.com/nfl/colts/, and give them a follow on Twitter @JakeArthurNFL, @ZachHicks2, and @LockedOnColts! Crossover Thursday is presented by PrizePicks. Download the PrizePicks app today and use code LOCKEDONNFL to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup. 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 non-withdrawable free bets that expire 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.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Chiefs and Colts are both under pressure as they head into this monumental game on Sunday. Today on Locked on Chiefs and Locked on Colts, your crossover edition. You are Locked on NFL crossover, part of the Locked on podcast network. Your team every day. And welcome back to another episode Locked On Chiefs, and this is a lot of, the crossover episode with Locked-on Colts. Lots to talk about today. Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day.
Starting point is 00:00:36 We are now the number one podcast network in the U.S. Thank you all for that. Because of you every-dayers, we really do appreciate that. And got a special show for you today. Ryan and I are going to be joined by Jake Arthur from Locked-on Colts. And we've actually been working with Jake for over a dozen years now, probably. We're talking before the show started. How long we've been doing this has been quite a while.
Starting point is 00:01:00 Today's crossover episode Thursday episode is presented by Price Picks. Download the Price Picks app today and use Code Locked on NFL to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup. Thank you all for listening. We really do appreciate that. And again, thank you all to the everydayers. I'm Chris Clark from Chiefs Corner. This is Jake Arthur from Locked on Colts, and I'm sure he can tell you a couple other places that he is. And then Ryan Tracy from NFL 33 and Rogue Analytics as well as RGR football.
Starting point is 00:01:28 Time to get into it. We're going to talk about the keys to win much later in the show. We're going to talk about sauce on rice a little bit in the second segments. But we're going to talk about pressure. And both teams are going to be facing a lot of it in this game, but in different ways. Jake, how are you doing, buddy? It's nice to see you. I am awesome.
Starting point is 00:01:48 It's good to see you guys. It's been quite a while. Yeah. It's a plus, though, when we get to get back together and cut it up a little bit, shall we say? And we have some good things to talk about today. it's kind of nice. Exactly. Last time the Colts and Chiefs played,
Starting point is 00:02:03 I mean, the Colts won, but it was the most disastrous season I can ever recall in 2022. So good to be back with you guys in much better terms for the team. So headed into this game, the Colts have pressure,
Starting point is 00:02:18 but it's facing pressure from the top of the league, from the top of the AFC, a little bit different than the Chief situation, but I'll let you talk about the Colts pressure that they're dealing with right now, Jake. Yeah, so kind of unexpectedly, you know, the Colts have found themselves atop the AFC standings throughout most of the season.
Starting point is 00:02:36 Now, with their by-week, the Patriots and Broncos both caught up to them and they're, you know, nine and two as the Colts are eight and two. But still, the Colts have performed quite well early in the season as the hunters and throughout the season as the hunted. It really seems like they're getting a lot of teams' efforts. Like you go back a few weeks to the Steelers, and they're, defense had everyone was like this is like the worst Steelers defense we've seen in years and they totally flip a switch suddenly they can tackle again their pass rush is awesome like everything that
Starting point is 00:03:10 had been plaguing them all season totally flipped and uh just they really just hit the colts in the mouth and then the falcons a couple weeks ago out in berlin i mean you never know what falcons team you're getting but uh they definitely gave them their best shot ultimately in a colts overtime win so For the Colts, you know, they're very coach-speaky, led by Shane Steichen. It can, you know, it can fall on deaf ears to the outside because Shane Steichen is very, you know, we look at this day by day, week by week, but he's been consistent as ever in his third year now. And they finally got a good group in the locker room and in the coaching staff and everything to where everyone's kind of marching in one direction. and they've really bought into his, you know, his mantra of, you know, we're taking things one day
Starting point is 00:04:03 at a time. We're not looking ahead whatsoever. And, you know, his consistency has just kind of helped them on all sides of the ball keep, you know, keep their eyes on the ultimate prize. And they don't get too high, don't get too low. And, you know, I think us from the outside kind of pump things up for them more than they ever really look at it this way. Like, especially a matchup like this with the chiefs. I mean, obviously, you know, they're right there like 500, but only people who you would probably qualify as haters are really downsizing the chiefs right now. Like, I can promise you that Colts still very much see this as the Super Bowl dynasty chiefs. They're not looking at this as a lowly chiefs team that's on a down year.
Starting point is 00:04:49 Well, that's smart, especially if you're taking on the coach's mentality about that, that keeps you frosty. It keeps you from giving yourselves. a let down. And for the Chiefs, the opposite is true, too. They got to make sure that they still believe they're the dynastic version of this team because at this point, they've been too reluctant to do anything outside of what they've done in the past, which is mostly keep it together good enough so that Patrick Mahomes can do his thing, right? And even Patrick today would tell you, part of the problem is I'm just not hitting my targets. I am missing passes to guys that are open. And that's part of the problem.
Starting point is 00:05:26 And so for the Colts to take that out of to just take it one week at a time, Chiefs need to do that as well. And I hope that they're able to get back to it. This has been, you can read the frustration on most of the players about the way that they go about things, not necessarily in person, but certainly leaving the field, that kind of thing. Social media all of a sudden, you don't hear a whole lot from most Chiefs most of the year, but now things are starting along. The pressure is building.
Starting point is 00:05:51 And I think that pressure right now is mostly inopportune because of the season that the Colts have had. they're feeling the pressure that they put themselves in where normally we'd be in a position that hey this could be a great battle and if they lost to the Colts it would still be all right but now this could be something that really puts them on the edge of even making a playoff run and that's I think what's really adding to the constant downheaval of pressure yeah I mean when it when it comes to the Colts I mean they're kind of an uncharted territory a little bit like you obviously want to go for the top seed you know you get you you know, the first round by, you get home field advantage of everything, which they played
Starting point is 00:06:30 much, much better at home. They're undefeated at home and everything. But if you're the chiefs, yeah, it seems crazy to say, but like it feels like it could be a knockout punch, you know, if they lose this game, I don't know what the rest of their schedule looks like, but, you know, they're in the AFC West. It's probably not a cakewalk by any means. So, yeah, for the Colts, you want to get back to the top and stay in the race with like a Patriots team that like don't get me wrong the cold schedule has been fluff through the first portion
Starting point is 00:07:01 of the season and they're they're making each opponent look exactly how they should but they now have the second most difficult schedule in this back seven here um so i mean compared to the patriots like it's going to be a race to the finish i mean the broncos too the colts have a win over the broncos but if they want to get that top seat it's it's not going to be easy game with the colts on the broncos early on in the season and now your situation where you hold the tiebreaker against them, but you're right, you have a tougher schedule than maybe the Broncos have.
Starting point is 00:07:32 But it's kind of interesting because you look at how this season has played out for Kansas City, you look at how the seasons played out for the Colts. Generally speaking, if you were to tell me early on in the season that you're going to be having an eight and two team versus a five and five team or a team with two losses versus a five and five team, I think you probably flip the teams.
Starting point is 00:07:52 That obviously hasn't been the way that this has worked out. And that is okay. Kansas City is under a ton of pressure to try to make the playoffs at this point and a loss against the Colts puts them with six losses. I don't know that they can get to seven and feel like they can actually make the playoffs.
Starting point is 00:08:09 So that is a huge thing that they would have to overcome. But not only that, you're looking at another loss to an AFC team, which is going to hurt you when you're looking at seating and looking at making the playoffs because you're probably on the outside looking in winning the AFC West this year. So it's all about what your common record is
Starting point is 00:08:30 and what your AFC record is going to be. So this is a tough game. Kansas City has to go in. They have to try to win this one and they have to get going in the right direction. When we get back, we're going to talk about sauce on rice and the chief's offensive line and how it could really play a big factor
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Starting point is 00:09:49 and welcome back to the crossover episode this is going to be a lot of fun to talk about we get to talk about some of the matchups that are going to be a huge key in this game jake i'll let you kick it off yeah so uh the the colts should hopefully fingers crossed have their shiny new cornerback tandem uh everyone knows they traded for sauce gardner but mooney ward who you guys are obviously very familiar with he's been on i r for the last five weeks, four games, since having that freak pregame accident against the Cardinals where he had a teammate collided during pregame warmups. And it was actually his second concussion in the first six weeks of the year. So they're like, this guy's critical to what we're doing. We're shutting
Starting point is 00:10:32 him down to get it, you know, totally healthy before he comes back. So they opened up his practice window today. He practiced in full. Again, he didn't go on IR because of the severity of this concussion. It was because of he had two of them in those first six weeks. So it's been a while. Him practicing full today, it leads us to be very optimistic that both he and sauce will be available this Sunday. It's kind of pick your poison when it comes to the Colts defense in Louana Rumo. They wanted to play a significant amount of man defense and man coverage coming into the season. And they had just so many injuries to cornerback. throughout the early portion of the year that it just really took away what they wanted to do.
Starting point is 00:11:19 I mean, Justin Wally was a guy who they drafted him in the third round, and it looked like he was going to wind up being a starter, and then he tore his ACL over the summer. They brought in Xavier and Howard to replace that, and it turned out, Xavier and Howard being like 32 years old and a year removed from football was not a good thing. He retired. And then, you know, Mooney goes on IR. So they just had a lot of problems that hopefully with this back half of the schedule will be all resolved. They've got two really high-end cover corners.
Starting point is 00:11:54 And when you look at like the chief's offense, you see what Rishi Rice is capable of. You really would like to have those guys at your disposal. So you got a guy like Sauce Gardner who looked pretty decent in his debut with the Colts a couple weeks ago before their bi-week last week. And I just got to think with like a Chiefs offense that's very pass-based, what are they going to want to do? Because Patrick Mahomes has not been quite as effective against heavy man coverage as he has zone this year.
Starting point is 00:12:26 And you got two, again, high-end cover corners on either side. So it's like, what are you going to do there? Or is this one where they just funnel it to Travis Kelsey on the inside throughout the game? I'm very interested to see how they go about this. And for the last two, three weeks, you know, everyone kind of over here in Colts Lane has been very, very eager to see Sauce and Ward kind of team up, especially for matchups like this.
Starting point is 00:12:52 Like Rishu Rice may not be like Jamar Chase, but we've seen like in his debut this year, he could take over a game and dominate. He certainly can. And honestly, if you ask most of the players, most of the receivers in particular around this roster, they have no recollection of Chabaris weren't ever playing for this team. So there's no connection there, right?
Starting point is 00:13:10 They're just walking into them being a duo. And I, for one, I like spice, right? So I'm looking for it. If you're from Kansas City, I'm going to get Gates spicy sauce to put on this. If you're in Indianapolis, maybe you're going down on those. I don't know. But you're pulling something with some heat, right? Because this is where the heat's going to be on the rice sauce matchup.
Starting point is 00:13:30 I think the rest of them is really going to be about how can you take advantage of a guy just coming off of I. are. But more importantly, how can you scheme around the third option? Because Kenny Moore is not practicing either, correct? He's rested. He has a rest every Wednesday. Yeah, so he's fine. So that's normal. Okay. My fault. I will say this, though. I think it's playing off of that matchup with Rice and Sauce. And if you don't get, especially when you travel, Rashid, which I expect them to do quite a bit, if you're going to give some zone looks or you're not going to let Sauce take that on where he does have a physical disadvantage because rice is more powerful than people give him credit for so if you're going to map and try to go across formations and
Starting point is 00:14:11 team up with him i think that that's a recipe that they'll play off of maybe not being the main dish but the side dish that they're looking for yeah i'm not i mean now you're making me incredibly hungry but now it's uh i'm just i'm very very curious to see what the Colts are going to do here because Lou Anirumo will get weird with it. He'll, week to week, he'll throw something new that you haven't seen yet. Like, against the Steelers, Jalen Jones is one of their bigger corners who had started for them on the outside the previous two years, but wasn't necessarily like the best fit among all the guys they have now.
Starting point is 00:14:50 But he was on IR, well, came back against the Steelers a few weeks ago. And right off of IR, they planted him on D.K. Metcalfe. I think he shot him down to like less than 10 yards receiving. But then you look at the Falcons in their most recent game. He only played a few snaps, but he was kind of like the Kyle Pitts coverage man. So I'm very curious what like what they do. Like is Jalen Jones going to be on Travis Kelsey? And then they go with like Mooney Ward and and sauce and Jones as three really big long cover corners and kind of lumped Travis Kelsey.
Starting point is 00:15:29 into that coverage-wise i want to see what they do with the safeties because obviously kansas city has plenty of speed downfield you look at brown you look at uh worthy and thornton as well so i mean i don't want to discount anyone's run game but i almost don't care because like this is a lot of fire work either does andy a lot of like you just said like i want to see everything about this cold secondary against these kansas city fast catchers yeah And it makes a lot of sense. I mean, this is going to be a marquee matchup. You're looking at one of the best players that the chiefs have in Rishi Rice.
Starting point is 00:16:05 And you mentioned Travis Kelsey as well as one of the past catchers. And then, you know, going up against Soss Gardner, who is one of the best young corners in the NFL. So it makes a ton of sense. This is a huge matchup to see how this game is going to play out. For me, when I look at this, it's a question of, you know, right now as we're recording this, Kingsley Suamatiya missed practice on Wednesday.
Starting point is 00:16:27 We do not know if he's going to be available for the game. on Sunday it's possible he could be available it's possible you could go limited on Friday and maybe play we'll see but that's a huge loss for Kansas City if I'm looking at this because what we've seen from Patrick Mahomes is he is sped up at times and when he gets under pressure he has been even worse than even he hasn't been great this season consistently but when he goes against pressure and Loua and Marumo has got him under pressure with his time at the Bengals a ton. They played a lot of games against each other. This is going to be something that I think is going to be a huge key. Yes, you get Josh Simmons back.
Starting point is 00:17:09 He had a good game against Denver. The rest of the offensive line didn't. And if they don't have a good game against the Colts, yes, the pass catching versus the corners is going to matter. But Patrick Mahomes is going to be under pressure and could be throwing some picks because he doesn't see where the pressure is coming from depending on what Lou Ann Aramu does. And I think that'll be part of the plan because, again, with how much man coverage you're going to be playing now, you're going to be blitzing more often. They love to use Zair Franklin coming off those blitzes. They have him stunt and twist a lot. They throw a lot of DB blitzes out there.
Starting point is 00:17:44 They've gotten sacks out of Nick Cross, Kenny Moore, Mike Hilton, Cam Bynum had a strip sack. And that's the thing. When those DBs get home coming off the edge, they usually force a fumble on the quarterback coming from the blind side. So I expect to see a ton of pressure coming because, I mean, this is what Lou wanted. He wanted to be able to get a corner. I don't think he anticipated having two guys like this, but a corner out there where he doesn't have to worry about what's going on on that side of the field. So he could just scheme up pressures and make the quarterback have to wait, you know, an extra half a second or whatever. And now the defensive line is getting home a little more.
Starting point is 00:18:26 And like, Laiatu, Latu, he doesn't have a ton of. of sacks this year but he has a ton of pressures and now when you've got this effectiveness in man coverage it allows those defensive linemen the teensy bit of extra time they need to actually get home to the quarterback but with his history I do expect Lou to bring quite a bit of pressure on the homes and he's got a way to get to the homes just mentally back and forth yeah I expect that there's going to be a bunch of pressure I'm going to be very curious as to see how well the homes is able to verify, or not necessarily verify, but know that the pressure is coming ahead of time
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Starting point is 00:19:49 So go ahead to Fandul.com and sign up over at Fandu, the official sports betting partner of the NBA. all right here's the fun part of this show we get into the keys to the victory for both teams Ryan I'm going to start with you on this one what do you think the keys are for the chiefs to win this game the number one thing the chiefs have to do is keep their minds about them and it's not the guys on the field this is up to the coaching staff the number one thing they have to do is come out prepared can't let younger guys and there are a number of them that are contributing to this roster right now Can't let them be panic.
Starting point is 00:20:25 You can let the older guys start to get a little bit nervous, right? You have to stay focused, much like we were talking about earlier about the way that the Colts are approaching this. You have to do that as well. You have one opponent left for this season. It is the Colts. Nothing else matters. You got to come out and you've got to be surgical with your offense.
Starting point is 00:20:40 And you have to make sure that you're physical on defense, the two things that have not been working out very well for these G's the last few weeks. Really, since they faced Buffalo. So for me, it's about the preparation by the coaching staff and the game planning that they have a way out if what they want to do doesn't work if maybe it is jalen that does something to mess up the process if sauce is just too much all over somebody that you can't effectively do what your main goal is you have to be able to pivot and that has to include the run game that's about the planning the chiefs have gotten away from the run far too much this season more so than even most
Starting point is 00:21:16 seasons and i think that is all in the preparation today as we're speaking tomorrow Friday I think it's more about those days that is necessarily about execution on Sunday. When it comes to the Colts, like eight and two, they're obviously having a very good season. And I don't want to discredit anything that any other teams have done. But the common denominator in their losses, they really only had one ugly performance in all of their losses and all of their losses and everything. But it's turnovers. I've had a big problem with allowing sacks the last couple games as well. 12 sacks between the,
Starting point is 00:21:53 the Steelers and the Falcons, a lot. And then, like, Daniel Jones had, like, seven turnovers by himself in those two games as well. So it's not realistic, especially with a, I know Kansas City's defense isn't really what you guys want it to be right now,
Starting point is 00:22:09 but I'm not this, I don't want to discredit Steve Spagnol, you know, like he'll have something ready, I'm sure. And, I mean, that's on tape for the Colts. Like, you're bringing a ton of pressure at Daniel Jones. he's giving you the ball like that's out there and they're i mean they just had their by week but there's not going to be any quick magic fix for that so i think it's more about how you counter the pressure that pretty much every defense is going to bring it you now because they've seen
Starting point is 00:22:35 that that's the way you beat the colts has caused them to to cop the ball up and i mean like pittsburgh for example like i mentioned earlier their their defense just magically flipped a switch but the Colts allowed that, you know, 24 of the Steelers, 27 points were off turnovers. The defense shut the offense down. So, like, the turnovers were a direct result or a direct, you know, that's why they lost. And then really just kind of dumb penalties as well. That's just been the common denominator, like coughing the ball up, like crazy. Because it's not like they just turn it over once or twice.
Starting point is 00:23:13 it's like an insane amount it's like at minimum three turnovers if they're going to have a bad day it's it's raining um and then again like you look at the rams they coughed it up a few times a d mitchell had a game that got him in the doghouse and then ultimately traded like if they stay out of their own way like mistakes are going to happen that's fine it happens in every game you're even going to maybe turn the ball over in a lot of games take some sacks but like you just can't let it roll into an entire systemic thing throughout the entire game, you know, like bounce back from it. And I thought that's something that Daniel Jones did well.
Starting point is 00:23:53 Like he had a couple more turnovers against the Falcons. But when it came down to crunch time in the fourth quarter and overtime, he made some elite throws. And like Jonathan Taylor went absolutely bonkers over almost 300 yards of offense. Of course, it feels crazy that I'm only just now mentioning his name. but like he's a given like he's going to do what he does every week it's about everything else around him not crumbling and you know doing their part that that leads to the colts victory so as as long as you know when pressure does get to jones he holds on to the ball and he's
Starting point is 00:24:28 not having some arm punts and stuff like they'll they'll be fine just be a little disciplined because being on the road hasn't been their safe space this this year obviously and then just not letting things snowball into catastrophe basically. I chuckled as you were talking because you talked about dumb penalties and I'm sitting here looking at the chiefs going, I don't know how else to really talk about it. Like it's dumb penalties. It's special teams miscues. It's not lining up on the line of scrimmage. It's, you know, and I'm okay with a hold here every now and then I mean, you have those. It happens. I mean, you could probably call holding on just about every single
Starting point is 00:25:08 play. So it's just a matter of what ref you get and what they see. So I'm not going to be upset about that type of stuff, but it's the dumb stuff. It's the illegal procedures. It's the off sides. It's all those kinds of dumb things that the chiefs have done. If they can get away from that and play a clean game, their chances of winning this game go way up. And you talk about forcing Daniel Jones into turnovers. This defense hasn't been doing that. They haven't been forcing turnovers this year. So if they can get to a point where they're pressuring him and he starts turning the ball over, then you get yourself at a situation where the chiefs have a short field, and I feel like you have to feel pretty good about Patrick Mahomes being able to put
Starting point is 00:25:48 points on the board, even going against Luana Rumo in this defense. So to me, it's a matter of taking care of the ball, and Mahomes has done pretty well. This past week withstanding with two horrible throws, one that turned into an actual pick. But he's done pretty well this season, keeping control of the ball and not train it over. So as long as Kansas City can do that, I think that they're going to be in good shape. But the other one is, you know, this Colts offense, they've been supporting a ton of points. And as you said, Jonathan Taylor has been a big reason why. It's a question of can you keep him under 120 or 130 yards?
Starting point is 00:26:25 Because if you can do that, and I'm okay even if he gets closer to 150, but if you get him, if he goes off for more than that, you're going to be in a situation where their Colts are likely going to hold on to the ball. Maybe I wouldn't say quite two to one, but it's, you know, 35, 40 minutes and you're losing the time of possession, and that's going to cost Kansas City because they're not a quick strike unit right now. They just can't score points quickly and get themselves to a victory in this one. And so I think, you know, keep control of the ball, no more dumb penalties, and slow Jonathan Taylor down just a little bit. and I think Kansas City has a chance to win this one. I think one more interesting area to look at is, you know,
Starting point is 00:27:08 you mentioned Kingsley's, his concussion, everything. The Colts are obviously without DeForest Buckner right now. He's on IR with a neck injury. They hope he gets back, you know, before the season's up, but he's without a doubt out of this game. It wasn't the end of the world, like there were times where you could clearly tell he was missed against Atlanta. It's the only game they play without him so far.
Starting point is 00:27:29 But this one, if any team, can get to establish the run and commit to it throughout a game, especially now without DeForest Buckner, that might be the key to it all. And it sounds like that is way easier said to done for you guys, and it's not even really being attempted. So I don't, again, Nagy, are you listening?
Starting point is 00:27:52 Right. I almost, it feels like a thing where this is the week where the chiefs are like we've been saving it for this. And again, their backs against the wall. but with their backs against the wall like this like do they really want to go conservative and go with a run approach probably not but that's something
Starting point is 00:28:09 I'm looking for with the chiefs like do either of these tigers on either side with the Colts or chiefs change their stripes with the chiefs again their backs up against the wall but the Colts are coming out of a buy they've had some really ugly performances they split the last two games one and one but both performances
Starting point is 00:28:27 left a lot to be desired so if either of these teams really make any, like, big changes going into this game. It feels like overall, this could be a season swing for both teams on the outcome of this. Either solidify yourself if you're the Colts up at the top, then you've got to start asking questions, right? For the Chiefs, one side of the coin is that, oh, yeah, we can still pull this off against a top competition, or, oh, maybe we really aren't prepared to go to the postseason. Like, it seems both teams are going to get some answers when this one's over.
Starting point is 00:28:57 That is going to be it for us today. Thank you all for listening. I cannot wait. for this game. It's going to be a good one on Sunday. Be sure to check out Lockdown Colts and Jake covering this team, getting you ready for the actual preview game show on Friday and Ryan and I will have you covered as well. Thank you all for listening today
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