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Starting point is 00:00:00 Apparently, the Indianapolis Colts cannot have too many all pros on the field at once on defense as DeForest Buckner heads to injury reserve as Sauce Gardner gets ready for his Colts debut. Let's get to it. You are Locked-on Colts, your daily Indianapolis Colts podcast, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. thank you all for making locked on culture first listen every single day

Starting point is 00:00:32 part of the locked on podcast network your team every single day today's episode is brought to you by game time down the game time app create account use code locked on NFL for $20 off of your first purchase hello everyone my name is Zach Hickshaw resident fill nerd of horseshoe huddle.com and my partner in crime Jake Arthur is a credential crocks on the ground for round table sports we're here giving you guys our typical Friday rundown talking all about the Colts injuries, their offense, their defense, and our final expectations for this game in Germany. We're going to be with you guys pretty early on that game there. We're going to

Starting point is 00:01:08 be done with work by noon on Sunday, Jake. It's going to be great for us. But Jake, let's start with this injury report here. Obviously, the biggest news of the week is the Colts ruled out to Forrest Buckner on Thursday afternoon, which felt a little bit early for ruling a guy out. Now, they had the travel. So that was kind of a big part of it. We saw the Falts. Buckins rule out a couple players early as well, but the big shocker here on Friday, DeForest Buckner is going to be placed on IR. Now, I believe he has to miss four games minimum, not four weeks minimum. So he's out for this week, the by week, and then three games following the by week as well. Yeah. And, you know, we're not used to start with the defense on our Friday shows, and I

Starting point is 00:01:50 wish we weren't because of this exact issue. It's, I guess if you're going to pick a, slate of four games for him to miss. You'd rather miss these next four than the last four. But no, it's going to be a big deal, I think, because he does so many things well. He's very well-rounded. He's awesome against the run. He's easily your best interior pass rusher. I mean, he's good for two, three big splash impact plays a game.

Starting point is 00:02:19 And above all, he's just a leader. Like, guys see what he's doing on the field and they know they need to kind of up the ante and match him. a little bit. So this is a big deal. The Colts have been good against the run really good lately. They're getting some sacks. I think they're top five, top 10 in sacks right now as well. So this will be a hit. Realistically, it will be a hit. The good news is for the first time, what seems like forever, they've got a little depth at defensive tackle. So we're going to see more Neville-Gallimore, going to see more out of Tom and Warr, out of ORA. And shoot, since Buckner's

Starting point is 00:02:55 going to be out at least four weeks. Maybe Tim Smith makes his way onto the roster, at least as, like, the practice squad elevation on game days. So we're going to see what this depth looks like, but I wish it was not at the expense about him. Yeah, no, for sure. And it just, it feels like this defense is just snake bitten all year. Like, you know, we get all excited about the potential of Charverius Ward out there with

Starting point is 00:03:19 Justin Wally and with Hunter Woller coming in these sub-packages. And then this healthy defensive line up front with Buckner and LATU and these other defensive ends rotating in. But all those guys I just mentioned have missed games with Ward spending time on IR and now Buckner spending time on IR. It just feels like they're kind of snake-bitten on that side of the ball, which, look, I will sacrifice the defense for the offense's health right now. The offense has been knock on wood pretty healthy at this point. So, you know, whoever we have to sacrifice on defense. But luckily, it looks like the Colts are at least getting a. an all pro in replacement of Buckner

Starting point is 00:03:55 with Sauce Gardner set to make his Colts debut in Germany. We'll see how many snaps he ends up playing. Jake, I don't know if you have any extra like insight there from Shane Steichen, but it seems like it's going to be all systems go for Sauce Gardner this weekend. Yeah, as far as we know, you know, Shane said essentially as as long as sauce clears the concussion protocol, the plan is for him to start and play. And we've seen them bring new guys in and play significant snaps right away. Not a lot of those guys were, you know, coming in to Lou Annamo system

Starting point is 00:04:27 that they'd already been in before. But, I mean, Soss Gardner at cornerback, like, I think it's pretty straightforward. Like, we're going to glue you to Drake London. See this guy, follow him, and don't let anything happen, essentially. So I'm sure they could craft a little game plan for him. And unfortunately, you know, Buckner's not even the only defensive lineman that's going to be out of this one. Tyquo Lewis and Samson, Evicon, going to be missing their third straight games.

Starting point is 00:04:51 Taekwon, you know, clearly suffered some sort of setback last weekend because he had practiced in full last Thursday and Friday was downgraded from questionable to out last Saturday and now he hasn't practiced since. So hopefully he can get back pretty soon. The Falcon's offense does pretty well at limiting sacks. They're one of the least sack teams in the league. So now you're without your best interior guy

Starting point is 00:05:17 and then your third and fourth pass rushers, essentially from the outside. Now, on the flip side of that, their guard depth is going to be a little ify. Matthew Bergeron, their left guard, already been ruled out. And then Chris Lindstrom, their right guard is questionable with a foot injury. So it could be just hobbled versus hobbled, and that kind of helps the Colts cancel it out. But I think regardless, they're going to miss having those three guys out there. Yeah, and on top of that, too, for the offensive tackle play with the Falcons, Caleb McGarry and Storm Norton are both out as well.

Starting point is 00:05:49 They both been out. but that's just more to their tackle depth too. So a very banged-up offensive line for the Falcons rolling into this game. Let's kind of roll this over just to talk about the game plan against Atlanta. You know, Michael Pennix Jr. is a quarterback who throws the ball extremely fast, extremely powerful, young quarterback, but he does get a little panicky back there in the pocket, and we have seen some disaster games from him where he's just being too passive

Starting point is 00:06:15 on throwing the ball down the field and just making a lot of mistakes that a young quarterback just can't afford to make. So I think for this Colts defense, Jake, first and foremost, it's make sure that Bejon Robinson doesn't beat you because that's their otherworldly talent they have on that offense. He's just a fantastic player. And then also just keeping Soss Gardner on Drake London and making it so other guys have to beat you.

Starting point is 00:06:40 You know, this isn't like the Colts offense where if you take away Michael Pittman Jr., you can go to Tyler Warren and go to Alec Pierce and go to Josh Downs. this offense very much, like, lives and breathes by Drake London and Bajon Robinson. And we've seen in recent weeks when teams have taken away Bajon Robinson and limited Drake London, this Falcons offense has just grinded to a halt. So I think, obviously, like, I know I'm not really like just saying anything too crazy here, but try your best to limit the two superstar players and don't let them get their chunk

Starting point is 00:07:09 plays. And I think the Colts defense will be effective this weekend. Yeah, I think with Bajon Robinson, the offensive line being banged up is it big plus for the Colts because then at that point you're just worried about you know guys in their run fits and just staying disciplined and not missing tackles and so I like Grover Stewart germane pratt and zaire franklin kind of leading the charge there because Robinson is one of the best in the league at creating his own yards making guys miss his agility is like on a hundred like he is very very good at making guys miss uh so yeah i would obviously that's first and foremost

Starting point is 00:07:47 Anytime you're facing the Falcons under any circumstances, that's the first guy you look at. I wanted to toss this one at you real quick, though. See what you think. So obviously, Sauce Gardner on Drake London, would you put Mackay Blackman on Darnell Mooney and then have Jalen Jones cover Kyle Pitts? I don't really know if that's how it, like, would necessarily work out.

Starting point is 00:08:11 Like maybe in some of their dime packages. Yeah. You would have Jalen Jones work inside or Nick Cross work inside on him and kind of do that. But I think ideally if you're playing man coverage, yeah, probably Jones or cross on pits. But that's only for very specific situations. You know, it's not like basketball.

Starting point is 00:08:30 Yeah, it's not like a basketball thing where you're five on five, like your man coverage all the time. There are a lot of zone concepts you attach to it. But, yeah, I mean, Blackman just being on the outside and then the best of matchup of Jones or cross on pits probably makes it both sense. Yeah, that one's going to be interesting.

Starting point is 00:08:46 I do like the fact that, I mean, Pennix has a ton of talent and then especially armed talent for days, but if you're going to be a little short-handed, especially if it's Buckner, I like Lou Interimmo cooking something up against a young quarterback in the second season like Pennix. You know, I haven't, I didn't watch what like whatever the Carolina game was, but Carolina seemed to have Pennix and hell. So whatever they did, take some bits and pieces of that and I would think apply it here to that matchup. Yeah, the Falcons have really struggled on the road this season. A lot of their worst performances, especially like on offense have come on the road. Last week against New England was probably their best road showing,

Starting point is 00:09:25 but it really didn't pop up until like late in the fourth quarter. They made this like big time run at a comeback. They had six points going into the fourth quarter on offense. And that's just not going to be good enough against the Colts. So I think a big part of this game is just whatever these other teams are doing to get the Falcons off schedule, which is, you know, jumping these underneath routes running a lot of press coverage to disrupt timing and make michael pennix junior just kind of double hit double clutch and hitch in the pocket i think those are going to be vital for this one so lou and irmo has been really good this year at getting quarterbacks do hold the ball longer than they want to hold it and i think that's going to be key against this balkans offense yeah without

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Starting point is 00:12:47 Download game time today. Welcome back every day, as we are talking Colts and Falcons in Germany, 9.30 a.m. Eastern Sharp on NFL Network. And, you know, we got the DeForest Buckner and the defense of it all out of the way. Now we're going to talk about the offense, a group that definitely needs a rebound, Zach. Obviously, five turnovers from Daniel Jones, another one from Josh Downs as he fielded a punt. These are all guys who were going to get a shot at redemption on Sunday. The offensive line got taken to the woodshed by the Steelers, which the Steelers' defensive line versus Colts offensive line. There's been plenty of just rough shot battles there that have kind of gone up as classics.

Starting point is 00:13:31 And it was pretty heavily skewed towards Pittsburgh in this one. So the Colts are going to have a chance to kind of rebound. and they need it. They need Jonathan Taylor back on track. They need to give Daniel Jones time to to get the ball out. Just everything needs to look a bit different from how it did in Pittsburgh last Sunday. Yeah, for sure. You just don't want the mistakes to compile and turn into new trends because a lot of what we were saying after that Steelers game is like, look, we have eight games of them not being this kind of disaster compared to one game of them being a disaster. So as long as it doesn't become a trend, we can write it off as that one bad showing. And as someone put it to me,

Starting point is 00:14:08 When I was talking about it's like, I think overall the Colts offense outplayed the Steelers defense. They just had the five to six worst plays of the day. And you just can't win in the NFL if you have those five or six worst plays of a game. So, yeah, it's about just getting back on track for the Colts. And while the matchup on paper looks a lot tougher against this Falcons team, the Falcons defense, I think, has played pretty admirable this year. One of the best safety tandems in football, as well as having A.J. Terrell on the outside is a very good player. the defensive line is kind of a lot like the Colts defensive line where they don't get a ton of

Starting point is 00:14:42 like these quick pressures with like your Max Crosby level players on the outside but they stack pressures because they rush really well as a unit and they get after the quarterback well as a unit and that's really where they got after like Josh Allen a couple weeks ago and they're upset win against the bills so it's a well-coached unit on that side of the ball I like what Rahim Morris has done but I do think that this is a unit that the Colts can take advantage of you know i'd be a lot more scared of the falcons defensive divine diablo we're playing but he is currently on injured reserve uh so their linebacker group you know is is totting out like rodney ronnie harrison not rodney ronnie harrison junior is going out there and playing linebacker we all remember him

Starting point is 00:15:22 from the gus bradley days here in indy playing a lot of linebacker um so i think that's exploitable in the run game and that's where the falcons have really been vulnerable in recent weeks it's giving up a lot of runs on the ground uh their defensive tackles get displaced quite easy easily at the point of attack, which was an issue last week against Pittsburgh where Hayward and Benton were just driving back the Colts interior. And it led to a lot of issues in the ground game. I think the Colts are going to be able to get back to just displacing forward, giving Jonathan Taylor the space he needs, and then he can go to work from there. And then in the passing game, you know, the Falcons, they don't run a lot of man coverage, but they're in single high quite a bit

Starting point is 00:15:58 because they have Jesse Bates. You know, you want him to be that center fielder. And the Colts receivers who have really benefited the most against single high defenses are Josh Downs and Alec Pierce. Those are kind of the guys that are the Colts go to in those situations. So I think they'll be able to lean on those two players, especially Downs on the backside of, you know, when they bring down the safety to cover Tyler Warren and really isolate Tyler Warren, then you can get Josh Downs on the backside. I think the Colts are going to be able to find some success there. So I think, you know, again, this Falcons defense is tough. They're competitive. It's kind of like the Cardinals defense to me from a couple weeks ago. But I think the Colts, as long as they

Starting point is 00:16:32 just do what they typically do. I think they'll be perfectly fine. Yeah, that's that's a team where you mentioned single high. They also have some issues tackling. So you get past that second or that first unit and you're more isolated with like the ball carrier or pass catcher having one guy to beat like that may be some hidden yardage there, especially you mentioned Josh Downs, this guy that can create his own yards. Obviously Jonathan Taylor, Tyler Warren, Warren's another guy that can really use kind of a tune-up as well. He's been a little slower in a couple of recent games, but someone we obviously know is capable of taking over making big plays at all levels of the field. So that's kind of what I'm looking at. If you were, I met no big changes need to be

Starting point is 00:17:16 made, right? Obviously, like, we're going to say Sunday was kind of an aberration and it's by no means a trend to something worse. But if you were going to, we're going to, we're going to, Would you kind of go back to playing the hits and, like, making sure you did things that work? Because I know Shane Steichen is very, very matchup specific and game plan specific. He doesn't – Shane Seichen doesn't really have a system. He attacks what is coming up that week. So with, you know, Rahim Morris's defense in mind and knowing what the Colts do well and probably need to get back to, like, what would you want to do against this defense?

Starting point is 00:17:54 Yeah, I mean, I think a lot of it is playing the hits, like you mentioned, Jake, where it's like, what's worked a lot for them this year is throwing to score and running to win and getting that that past game going early to set up more runs late. I think that's still an effective game plan for this one. Although I will say let's sprinkle in a little bit more Jonathan Taylor runs against this vulnerable defensive front can also maybe help your tackles in the past rush department on like last week where they were kind of getting exploited. So maybe a few more like duo runs up the middle just to drive those defensive tackles off

Starting point is 00:18:24 the ball, get some positive gains, stay ahead of the sticks. I think that'll be vital, but yeah, I just think overall it's just kind of about leaning on what's been working this year. You know, isolate Josh Downs in the slot on linebackers and, you know, if they bring the safety down to that side, then obviously against the safety, using Pierce on the vertical plane and now on crossers, getting the quick hitters to Michael Pittman Jr. Maybe get back to the screen game a little bit this week. They didn't really have anything going in the screen game last week. And I think, you know, getting the ball to guys like Warren and Taylor in space,

Starting point is 00:18:57 is optimal but yeah i just think it's about getting back on track keep the turnovers down the pre-snap penalties down and if you have to have drives like they had to start the game last week where it's like you have to convert fourth and ones or you have to use quarterback sneaks quite a bit that's fine by me you know these these overseas games are ugly if you have to win ugly so be it you know it doesn't have to be the prettiest game ever it's all about just getting points on the board and i just think if they can get back to what they were doing in those first eight weeks i think they'll be fine yeah without a doubt all right guys so coming up next you know the drill segment three who you got what do we think is going to happen

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Starting point is 00:20:54 That's code locked on NFL for $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup. Price picks. And it's good to be right. All right, every day, here's welcome back to the show. We are talking Colts and Falcons. We've looked at the defense. We've looked at the offense. And now we're going to give our final thoughts.

Starting point is 00:21:14 Zach, this is one I have not come up with a score yet. I just keep kind of tossing things up a little bit. Again, it's an international game overseas. not even just like Canada or Mexico or anything. It's like a legit flight, big, you know, time changes and everything. So that stuff tends to get weird. You know, we saw against the Patriots in 2023. That was an ugly game.

Starting point is 00:21:38 The Colts came out on top, but it was an ugly game. I get the vibes of this one, similar to like the Cardinals, Broncos, a little bit. It'll be a one score game, I think. The Colts do have some advantages in this one. But overall, I do think they're going to win. think it'll be close and i'm going to say probably like 27 to 21 maybe i think lou's going to be able to do enough schematically and with his coverages to to make pennix hold on to the ball a little bit uh sauce gardener i know it's his first game but i think that will make a big difference against

Starting point is 00:22:13 drake london especially when you don't have a guy like de force buckner up front getting that push and then i think jonathan taylor and tyler warner both going to bounce back from some pretty slow games Yeah, I actually have the Colts 2717, I think, for horseshoe huddle, and I think I'll stick with that one for this game. The Falcons offense has kind of been a rut recently. I know they broke through the 20-point barrier this past week against the Patriots with a nice little comeback there at the fourth quarter, but they've really struggled.

Starting point is 00:22:43 No matter who the quarterback has been, they struggle to find consistency and answers, and that offensive system is really struggling overall for the Falcons right now. and I think they're hitting the Colts when Luana Rumo's starting to figure some things out. I thought the defense played fairly well last week, and now they're getting Soss Gardner in the mix. I think it's a tough time to play against the Colts. Now, obviously, I wish the Colts were a little bit healthier on defense right now, but still getting Soss Gardner is such an upgrade over what they've had at Corner in recent weeks.

Starting point is 00:23:11 I think they're going to be able to get some extra pressure as a result because Lou's going to be able to do more things in the secondary. So I think the Colts defense is going to hold them under 20 points. I think they're going to have a good showing, get a couple turnovers on the board and help the offense get some points. I want to say the offense can go over 30, but these international games, like I said in the last segment, they're so ugly. Yeah. There's a lot of slipping on the field. There's a lot of just, blech football, you know, and it feels bad because we're not giving the international people our best product, it feels like. We're giving them just these slugfest games.

Starting point is 00:23:46 And I think to a degree we're going to see some of that on Sunday from both these teams. But ultimately, I think this Colts team is ready for the moment. Again, like I've said all year, like they're just, they're just a good football team. And good football teams bounced back from what happened last week. And they don't let things compile. And the Colts have taken care of business against every below 500 team they've played. Now, I think the Falcons are kind of like that Cardinals, like, Mirage, where they're much

Starting point is 00:24:11 better than what their record says. Like, they're certainly capable of much more than what their record says. They're not like a Raiders team or a Titans team where, like, yeah, those are bottom. feeders in the NFL. I think the Cardinals and the Falcons are two like pretty good teams that just have been on the wrong end of puck luck essentially this year. But yeah, I think this Colts team, again, if they're, if they're legit this year, they'll come back, take care of business here and get into the buy week, get healthy and get ready for that big show against Kansas City coming out of it. But yeah, I think the Colts can do a lot of things. I think they're going to run the ball fairly

Starting point is 00:24:45 well. I think the offense will get back to being like nice and effective and efficient. I think the Colts defense is going to have a really good day and hold them under 20 points. Okay, I like that. Okay, so we got to obviously do our bold predictions here. We have to have Atatamiwa in our predictions this week. I feel like we have to have him somewhere in there because this is his time.

Starting point is 00:25:08 This is Atatamiwa's time, Jake. We've been waiting for this for like three years. That's, yeah, I mean, he's actually finally been playing really well this time. So I'm going to, I always feel like I have mine on the defensive side. Well, I'm going to offense in this one. okay okay so jonathan taylor versus bejohn robinson will not disappoint i think they combined for five touchdowns in this one jeez well jean's going to get two of atlantis three no no bison gets zero taylor gets all five well oh that's fair yeah yeah yeah me and jonathan taylor

Starting point is 00:25:37 he's done that before with five touchdowns against the bills uh but no i think jonathan has what his fifth three touchdown game this year uh and then i think bison has two of the three that I'm projecting Atlanta to get you know I would love to get like a pick six in there like a big guy I've already successfully called a big guy pick before so I don't need to do that again but I usually lean heavily into interceptions and such but I'm going offense this one yeah I'm going with the Atatamiwa prediction guys I think my boy Atatatamiwa Abore two to half sacks in this game a big thing to keep in mind you know he's replacing where Buckner typically lines up on the line like

Starting point is 00:26:20 I'm assuming he's going to step into that role. Maybe he'll stay on his typical role and they'll put someone else there. But I think he's going to like go where Buckner was and they'll put JT or someone like that in his role. And with the Falcons backup offensive guard, locked on Falcons, we were talking about this on the crossover the other day. Kyle Hinton is projected to start on the line. And I didn't even know who that was because I thought it was Chris Hinton, who was the... It's his son, isn't it? Well, I thought it wasn't...

Starting point is 00:26:46 Is that the kid from Michigan? That's what I thought, but he said it wasn't the guy from Michigan is what the Falcons guy told me. So maybe it's not. But yeah, all I heard from Lockdown Falcons when we talked about this was he's not good. And that's the biggest thing right there. He's not good. And Atatomi was kind of feasted when he gets those matchups that you're looking for this season. We remember go back to that Rams game where he was going against a backup guard and a lot of his rushes. And he had multiple big time wins there. He beat Will Hernandez cleanly a couple times against the cardinals. So Atatomi was had some really, really good games this.

Starting point is 00:27:20 year. Now he's going to get his most past rush snaps in a game all season, in my opinion. And I think we're going to get some really quick wins from him. And, you know, moments where people are going to be like, oh, my gosh, who is? Buckner actually is playing on Sunday because he looks like Buckner, the way he moves sometimes. I'm excited for my boy. I'm really excited for him. I think he's going to have two and a half sacks in this one. So we've talked about throughout the season, the Colts often don't win quickly on the pass rush. Tommy does. Yeah, he's the one who wins quickly. Yeah, he is fast as hell off the line. Like he just gets a couple slaps in a rip or a swim move in there and he's in the backfield. So I like that. If, you know, if he's going to get

Starting point is 00:27:59 the backup that is just not quick to react to a guy with violent movements like that, then I could see it. I mean, it's obviously rich. Not a lot of guys get two and a half sacks in a game, but he's going to be playing a lot more than he normally does. And he's played pretty well this year. Yeah, for sure. One more prediction. I want to go to the offensive side of the ball here. The Colts had their first two receivers break 100 yards last week. Unfortunately, they came in a loss because they were coming from behind the whole time, but Michael Pittman Jr. and Alec Pierce, I think they get their third one this week, and I think it's going to be Alec Pierce yet again hitting over 100 yards.

Starting point is 00:28:32 The Falcons are like a cover three single high heavy team. Yes, you'll have Jesse Bates rotating to his side quite a bit, but what we've seen with the Falcons corners this year is that they don't get their hands on early. They are susceptible to getting beat deep. Pierce is one of the best receivers in the league, in my opinion, at beating press and stacking vertically. Even if it's against Terrell on the outside, I think he's going to be able to win on that vertical plane. So I think we're going to get a couple big shots to Pierce, and you'll have one of those

Starting point is 00:28:58 like Alec Pierce stat lines, like five catches, 120 yards and a touchdown or something in this one. Yeah, I mean, by law, he has to average 20 yards per catch in a game. If I'm going, I'm not going defense again. I want to put Tyler Warren in there for something. Okay. He's either going to have a hundred yards. hundred yards or two touchdowns one of the two well then we i guess we have the cold scoring 50 points in

Starting point is 00:29:20 this game jake you have well there there are alternate realities in each of my which week are we going to predict the tyler warren touchdown pass i was going to say does it count if one of jonathan's touchdowns is a pass from tyler i was we have okay here's here's my i don't know when it's going to happen but when tyler warren throws his touchdown pass at some point this year it's going to be to Moe Alley Cox is my guess. That's it's going to be a jump pass. It's going to be a jump pass, right? That's chicken suit for the soul.

Starting point is 00:29:49 That's good stuff right there. So what you're going to do is you're going to line them up as a QB sneak or in the pistol or in the shotgun. You're going to snap it to Warren. He's going to run forward like he's running and Mo's going to leak out behind. It's going to be just a little jump pass over the line. That's how it's going to happen. But will it happen this week? I don't know.

Starting point is 00:30:06 But I know it's going to happen at some point this season. I'm curious to see, like, I don't. think Shane thinks this way so probably not I think he's going to try and do like what he normally would do if this was at Lucas Oil but like again just doing what you know works best like you're on the goal line you know get get Jonathan Taylor the ball you know just run power do something to get him isolated on the outside that obviously makes sense Daniel Jones QB sneak from the inch line he just he wants to get exotic he wants to get weird with it and I think that will even go overseas. Yeah. One thing to keep in mind, guys, the Colts this season are undefeated at home.

Starting point is 00:30:48 And technically, this is a home game for the Colts. We're trying to keep our undefeated streak at home here in Germany. I guess it is almost like a home game for Bernhard Riemann out there very close to being a home game for him. But Colts fans, Colts fans who are in Germany, either you're attending the game, you're heading out there from America, or you live out in Europe and you're like, hey, I want to go see the Colts. Let us know in the comment section below if you're heading to the game or again if you live out there and you're heading to the game even better i think that's a really fun thing uh so german fans austrian fans that just love bernhardt rhyman european fans whatever it is let us know in the comment section we want to hear

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