Locked On Colts - Daily Podcast On The Indianapolis Colts - Indianapolis Colts' Anthony Richardson, Josh Downs, Laiatu Latu Among Early Camp Standouts

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Starting point is 00:00:53 Hello, everyone. I am Zach Hicks, your resident film nerd over at HorseshoeHuddle.com. And I'm joined, as always, by my buddy Jake Arthur, the Boots on the Ground credentialed media member covering the Indianapolis Colts for HorseshoeHuddle.com as well. Jake has been on site through all of training camps so far. And look, the Colts have marked this day that we're at right now, this Monday, as the quarter mark of training camp. So we're a quarter of the way through all of training camp. A quarter of the practices are done.

Starting point is 00:01:22 And Jake is going to give us his report card on what he's seen out there, the players, which guys have stood out, which guys have some more room to go, some room to grow. And then we're going to talk about what's coming up throughout the rest of training camp. Before we get into our conversation, though, today, if you want to become a Locked On Colts insider just like our buddy Jake Arthur and chat with us directly and get that inside scoop. Follow the link in our show notes. But Jake, you have been there. You've been grinding the film in person, so you don't even actually have to pull up any film. You're just watching it right there as you go. We're going to talk about the offense to start off because the offense is fun. It's got the fireworks. What is standing out to you so far about the Colts offense in training camp? Yeah, so far so good with Anthony Richardson. Obviously, that's first and foremost going to be the marquee topic. But there was some skepticism and just kind of some

Starting point is 00:02:11 curiosity over how things would go. He obviously had the shoulder that he was working his way back fully from. And as far as we know, he's 100% and it's a thing of the past. You know, he hasn't, it's been a few practices, but he hasn't had any maintenance days and he's not on a pitch count or anything like that. And I don't know if you guys saw from the Colts Twitter page, they took a video of him throwing just before practice. That looked like just regular Anthony, just like no effort flick in the wrist

Starting point is 00:02:42 and that ball just disappeared into the ether. so his arm strength is there, uh, you know, as good as ever for Anthony Richardson. Um, I, like I've mentioned, I've seen growth from him. Um, he is comfortably targeting pretty much all areas of the field is getting the ball out quicker, uh, during the live team reps as well. And he's spreading the ball around to all different receivers all the time. His completion percentage, which his detractors love to point out, has been terrific through camp. And that's against a defense that knows him best. So I would put a big feather in his cap so far.

Starting point is 00:03:21 Again, pads come on tomorrow. So the defense is going to start getting a little nastier. But that's good. I mean, he's pretty much aced this first portion of camp, and now the difficulty level is about to go up a little bit. Yeah, yeah. With the pads coming on, obviously we can more so evaluate the trenches,

Starting point is 00:03:40 and he's going to have, you know, it's not live bullets coming his way, essentially, with this, but it's closer to live bullets than what we've seen so far in training camp, because there's always a little bit of ease in, you know, in the back of your mind when you don't have the pads on. And even though you're wearing that red Jersey, you know, it's still, you know, it's still more realistic this way. So yeah, excited to see the pads coming on the next couple of days. We won't really talk too much about the offensive line now because of that, because those pads haven't come on yet. It's just hard to evaluate offensive line play without those pads. But let's look at the pass catchers and the running backs.

Starting point is 00:04:12 Let's look at what every fantasy football nerd that's watching the show wants to hear about. Which of the pass catchers have really stood out to you and really made their mark so far in training camp? Yeah, so Michael Pittman Jr. has obviously done his thing. He looks exactly how he should. It's nice to see him getting some work downfield as well, because it's become a rarity for any quarterback that wasn't Carson Wentz to get him some work downfield. And he's not an elite separator by any means. He's more of a physical, gritty, tough receiver, but he's always shown when given the opportunity that he can at least catch a 50-50 ball downfield. So he's checking that off. Josh Downs, we saw him last

Starting point is 00:04:52 year. He had that nagging knee issue that was showing that he wasn't 100%, but he still looked good. He looks perfect now. He looks really good. that we've talked to whether it's a coach or a player about him has raved about him having a really big year uh chris ballard who likes to restrain himself when praising people because he likes to have that safety net of not pouring it all in on one one person uh he really was bullish on both Jonathan Taylor and Josh Downs. So Downs looks the part. His teammates have been talking him up even before we saw practice start. So he looks great. Anthony Gould has continued on what I think was a really solid off-season program. I think we know the short area stuff is going to be fine because he's got the speed and quickness and agility.

Starting point is 00:05:46 But just checking off the box of, OK, this guy can take the top off of a defense, you know, beat one on one coverage. And, you know, you're going to have to use safety help if a guy like that is stretching the field. He's checking that off. And then a couple of tight ends, you know, tight end health last summer was a big issue. You had this really talented room and you're like, okay, who's going to step up?

Starting point is 00:06:07 This is going to be arguably one of the bigger strengths of the entire team. Well, everyone was hurt at the time. No one's been hurt so far. Knock on wood. Again, I love to say knock on wood when it comes to injuries because we know how snakebitten this team is. Drew Ogletree and Will Mallory

Starting point is 00:06:23 have been two guys who i think have have really done themselves some favors uh with their performances mallory has just kind of continued showing what he did last year that he catches everything uh but the difficulty level of the catches he's making has increased a little bit this this summer and then ogletree everything just looks smooth and routine for him he made name for himself the last couple camps with the the big circus catches and everything hasn't had any of those yet but even more importantly is that just the routine catch and run stuff is it looks seamless he looks like a receiver out there doing it. So the pass catchers are that, you know, those are

Starting point is 00:07:06 the guys with the biggest questions or the biggest, okay, we need someone here to step up. And there are guys that are actually answering the call so far. Awesome. Awesome. And then one more thing I wanted to ask you about, and I know it's hard to kind of properly gauge like his performance in training camp because pads aren't on, he's a running back. It's, you know, you're not really doing full, full speed rushing stuff, but from everything we've heard from coaches to Chris Ballard to other players, you know, the team is excited about this offense because of Anthony Richardson,

Starting point is 00:07:35 obviously, but also because of Jonathan Taylor, the dynamic that they just didn't have last year. They never got to see those two players really play together, but it seems that excitement kind of carried over from last year to this year. What have you seen from Jonathan Taylor this year? And is it much better compared to obviously last year when we saw him, you know, head down, not talking to anybody in training camp, like having him on the field just in general is a better vibe,

Starting point is 00:07:59 obviously, than what we saw last year. Oh, yeah. The vibes are good this year for Jonathan Taylor. Last year, the vibes were not good. Uh, but no, he's, he's smiling. He's not sulking. He is, you know, he's engaged with everything. Most importantly, he's out there and, and participating in practice. Um, but no, I think that is so critical because there's, there's all these eyes and projection on the Richardson Taylor tandem, but the unspoken part of that is the little details that they need to learn about each other.

Starting point is 00:08:29 Like stuff that we're not even ever going to really notice. Like when it comes to RPOs and whether or not, you know, Anthony's going to keep it or release, like there is such small details that Jonathan is probably going to start picking up on. Or is like, if I see Anthony take this little like stutter step here, he's probably going to do this. Like some of that stuff,

Starting point is 00:08:50 again, it's so minute and stuff that none of us are really ever going to notice, but it's really important for them to get it. And, you know, depth of handoff and like what it's going to look like in pistol and shotgun and, and,

Starting point is 00:09:04 you know, under center, all that stuff that honestly is boring for fans to probably hear about. That's all ironed out now. And I think that's the biggest, one of the biggest factors of everybody being healthy right now is all that is being ironed out now before the season, there was so much catching up to do last year that everyone was doing everyone was learning on the go because it was the season and there's no time to test this

Starting point is 00:09:30 or that like you got to be ready to go now all the the groundwork is finally being laid right now when it's supposed to be laid yeah absolutely it's a big difference than last year in terms of injuries in terms of contract holdouts and newness, because, again, new coach coming in and new quarterback coming in. You know, everything feels a lot more established this year. And I think that was what Chris Ballard's goal was, obviously, in resigning everybody this offseason and bringing everybody back. But we're going to transition, guys. We're going to talk about the defense, who stood out on defense so far, and what Jake has been seeing with this Indianapolis Colts defense through the quarter mark of training camp.

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Starting point is 00:11:12 we're at the quarter mark of training camp, so no practice today. Don't worry, we have Jake Arthur, our credentialed boots on the ground, talking all about what he's seen so far. We're going over to the defense now. And before we really get into the nitty gritty and the details about who started and who's impressed, you know, we have a couple injuries on defense to be a little bit worried about. Two at pass rusher. We have one at defensive tackle still where he hasn't practiced a ton. So Jake, what can you tell me about these injuries from your obviously expert doctor opinion? Obviously you've already done all the research

Starting point is 00:11:44 on these injuries here. Sure. Like I play a doctor on TV, so that's good enough. There you go. There you go. So, okay.

Starting point is 00:11:50 So Dio Odengbo, I believe left Saturday's practice a little early. And then Samson Ebucon got injured somewhat early in practice Sunday. So Shane Steichen said afterward that it was a calf injury for both. I didn't see dio but plenty of people from the stands told me that they saw dio riding a stationary bike uh during sunday's practice so him being out there and doing something to get loose makes it feel like it's probably not anything that's going to keep him out a long time um i know we're all kind of jaded

Starting point is 00:12:23 because the the term calf injury when it comes to the Colts, especially during training camp, means summer long and retirement and the worst thing possible. I haven't heard anything about educoms yet. It's probably good that today is an off day, so they have the day to not only figure out what's going on with him, how long that's going to take him to be out, but also a plan for who to shuffle in there in his spot. So obviously it was Taekwon Lewis Latu was more likely to start eating into when it comes to the snap counts. So that gives Latu more opportunities to be with the first unit, which he really hasn't done much of during camp.

Starting point is 00:13:17 He's been more of a NASCAR package guy, which they haven't practiced that yet during training camp. So that's why we really haven't seen many first team reps for him. But this is going to mean more for both Taequann Lewis and Liatu Latu. Hopefully it shuffles the guys at the bottom up a little bit as well, because we've seen a little bit from Isaiah Land, but I've seen very little from like Titus Leo, for example. Jannard Avery has seen just about as much action as Isaiah land.

Starting point is 00:13:45 Those guys obviously probably don't factor into the regular season roster, but you want to see more of what they can do. And if you want to get them on the practice squad, so have you, but yeah, those injuries, hopefully they don't take too long, but it's, it's going to give some other guys some important reps. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. And one thing I do want to make of note, and again, I'm not a doctor by any means, I'm just a dude who played some sports in high school and stuff so just obviously take this anecdote for what it is but i saw a lot of people commenting on yesterday's video saying like samson ebucom out for the year like this is awful like sucks it loud too loud too now has to start and stuff and i think a lot of people are basing that off

Starting point is 00:14:23 of the pain he was in and him getting carted off practice but when I saw that it was a calf injury calf injuries are painful man they're just very painful and regardless of it's a pole or a strain or whatever it is they're extremely painful and they're hard to walk on so I could see the cart being a thing for like a calf strain and that wouldn't necessarily be a season-ending injury so before we get all doom and gloom and saying oh no our pass rush is down a very important piece let's just kind of see what the prognosis is and see what uh what actually happened with him there if it is a calf injury hopefully that's nothing too serious and he can be back by the end of training camp but moving past injury news because look injury news sucks and we hate talking about it on

Starting point is 00:15:05 here. Let's talk about some of the performance on the field, which guys have really stood out to you so far on defense thus far, Jake, in training camp. Yeah. So on day two, the defensive line had that hellacious day where they just made the offense look terrible. Really just about anyone except for Anthony Richardson, it seemed uh so Latu has had a really good camp so far like he's living in the backfield making life very difficult for Jake Witt um I'm sure Witt would probably like to let Blake Freeland get some of those left tackle reps at some point soon uh so Latu has looked great which is awesome because that's your first round pick first defensive player off the board and again again, with these injuries, he's probably going to need to play a little more.

Starting point is 00:15:48 Buckner and Grover, of course, blowing things up. I think EJ's speed has looked pretty good, which is, it's a delight because for the last two summers, we have, I feel so bad saying this, but we've kind of had the Shaquille Leonard cloud hanging over both training camps of when's he going to be out there? When's he going to be himself? Leonard, Leonard, Leonard, we got to find a way to get him into the lineup. That's not, that's not a problem anymore. You know, it's Zaire Franklin and EJ Speed are your guys. Let's roll. You plan around that now. So that's really good. Cause Speed is another guy who no one ever has a bad thing to say about, and everyone's so excited about the player he can be.

Starting point is 00:16:29 Because whether it's special teams or defense, he has proven to make big plays happen. Obviously a very good run defender as well. Will Jalen Carlisle win that third linebacker spot? At this point, I see a clear path for it. I did not see the first team defense run any base at all yesterday so because I was looking for if he was going to keep getting those first team reps but they were running sub packages pretty much the whole time but Carlisle got out there with the first team the day before at will which meant EJ slid over to Sam, and then you have Zaire at Mike. I think that's the move when the regular season comes,

Starting point is 00:17:10 especially now Ronnie Harrison is vacated to safety. You don't have two of those guys now, and Carlisle, as long as he keeps progressing like a rookie should, he seems like the most logical choice to be that Will linebacker. Yeah, it's exactly what Gus Bradley's coaching staff did with Divine Diablo. And he mentioned that. Without saying names, he talked about Richard Smith and them as a group having that experience turning college safeties into linebackers.

Starting point is 00:17:37 So that's clearly their plan. It's the exact same path where they got him in at Will the first year. And then when there was an injury at Mike, they even got him in at Mike the first year and then when there was an injury at mike they even got him in at mike at times uh during that first year so uh divine diablo i think was a like the 99th overall pick uh that year that that gus bradley's uh like the whole scheme was there in vegas carly's a little bit later a pick a fifth round pick but still it's kind of the same type of transition there and a similar type of pick there uh one more thing i wanted to ask you about before we get out of this segment here, Jake, is

Starting point is 00:18:07 the battle for cornerback two. I've seen good flashes on, you know, from people posting clips I've seen and heard good things about both Jalen Jones and Dallas Flowers. Do you think we have any separation there? Like, has Jones solidified himself there? Or are these guys still kind of going back and forth and you can't really say right now? Yeah, well, we'll call it cornerback three just because kenny and juju are pretty much locked in um but no i think it's jalen jones job to lose uh i really they have been rotating dallas flowers and jalen jones but it it very much seems like all the plan is like when, when the, the defense goes out there that,

Starting point is 00:18:46 you know, is the starters it's Jalen every time. Like, I, I think at this point he played so long and so much last year that it's like, yes, this is a competition it's open,

Starting point is 00:18:57 but flowers is only going to get it if Jones loses it. So more than it's flowers job to win it's Jones job to lose if that makes sense yeah that makes sense look it's intriguing to have the 22 year old out there just continually learning on the field rather than putting out a 27 year old coming off of a big injury so I totally get that that what the Colts are going for there it's like look we're going to give this young player every opportunity to win this job and if he can't then we have a good fallback option I'm very curious to see like even if Jones does win the job how the rotation looks at corner because Gus Bradley does not like to rotate defensive backs very often if you're the starter you're the start you're staying out there

Starting point is 00:19:38 you're not coming off the field I wonder if there is a little bit more rotation this year with Brents and Jones being fairly young players and having a guy like Flowers back. But we shall see, obviously, again, only the quarter mark of training camp. And now that we've talked about the offense and the defense, Jake is going to walk us through what is yet to come still in training camp

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Starting point is 00:21:41 Lowest price guaranteed. All right, Jake. So we still have plenty of training camp to talk. We have all of August to talk training camp. We got preseason games. We got joint practices. We have a lot of fun stuff coming. We're only at the quarterway mark here for training camp. So what should we be keeping an eye on going forward when it comes to coach training camp? Yeah. So we're obviously not done watching anthony richardson but we want to make sure like the routine stuff stays routine and that it doesn't look like a challenge i thought a great example was our guy colt's film room i think he tagged you and something right he at least tweeted it but it was anthony with really great footwork coming out of a play during 11 on 11s.

Starting point is 00:22:31 And boom, once you know, that's the play that was truly at minimum a 50-yard gain to Josh Downs. If Downs makes that last defender miss, it's a 70-yard touchdown. Very crisp play from the delivery to the catch execution throughout. So for Richardson, just those mechanics, the footwork, keep up the good work there. Just him getting repetition, all those reps and forming the good chemistry with his teammates so that they hit the ground running going into week one. I want to see if there's any separation between A.D. Mitchell and Alec Pierce. I think that's something that's probably being downplayed at the team level, but context clues tell us that maybe we've got a case of Pierce getting more snaps during the season, but maybe Mitchell's a bigger part of the passing game.

Starting point is 00:23:14 The tight end roles right now, I think Drew Ogletree is pretty much establishing himself as one of the top two. It's probably him and Kylan Granson right now. Will Mallory is still probably in that fifth spot because Mo is kind of leaning into that jumbo, that jumbo role. And then Jelani Woods is working his way up the depth chart right now. They didn't put too much on his plate, but he's getting up there. The return of injured players, allowing the other guys to get reps at their more natural positions. Braden Smith coming, he's back, but he needs to

Starting point is 00:23:54 get back into the team reps, which will send Blake Freeland down to the second level. Dio coming back, that doesn't affect anyone too much, but Ebukom. Really, Raekwon Davis, I think, is going to be a big one. He's dealing with the high blood pressure issue. But with him coming back, it'll allow Taven Bryan, as we all would love, to go back to three tech. Now that, of course, puts Adetomi down a peg, but it allows everyone to play in the spots they're supposed to play. You get some cross training, it's great. The younger guys continuing to get important reps. Jalen Carlisle with the

Starting point is 00:24:31 ones, if we keep seeing that. I know they want to give him some reps at Sam as well. Jalen Simpson and Micah Abraham, very important for those guys to keep doing what they're doing. Abraham has been taking advantage of Chris Lamans being out of the lineup. Ron Milas confirmed to me, Milas confirmed to me that Abraham is in the mix to be Kenny's direct backup because they've needed him out there with Lamont's hurt. And then I think when it comes to the Colts intentions and their lineups and everything, the joint practices will give us our biggest clues. So we have two more this week and next week are just normal ho-hum training camp practices. But the week after you get the two with Arizona,

Starting point is 00:25:15 the next week you get the one with Cincinnati. So things like RB two and three, I think we'll have a pretty good gauge on that. The wide receiver alignment, or at least their roles, I think we'll see more of that. Tight end, I think that's just a matter of it continuing how it is. I don't see that one changing drastically, but that is a battle we've been keeping an eye on. But cornerback and safety. Safety is the most up in the air one to me because it involves a starting position. I don't know. Ronnie Harrison, Nick Cross, Ronnie Thomas. If I had to put a pecking order right now,

Starting point is 00:25:51 I think it's still cross by the, by an eyelash with Ronnie Harrison right behind him and then Rodney Thomas. But cornerback, we obviously know the top four are, but does Jalen Simpson beat Daryl Baker Jr.? I've kind of been impressed with Amir's speed. And then Micah Abraham, does he hold on and keep showing, yes, you can trust me as Kenny Moore's backup? Because that's the spot that gets you on the roster, the week one roster. So I think it's going to be really important to see how those young guys take advantage of those reps. Yeah, yeah, for sure. My only thing I wanted to add that I think I'm excited to see and you can talk about this too, is like you mentioned, the young guys continually seeing like where their snaps go from here. I think Jelani Woods is a perfect one for that,

Starting point is 00:26:38 where do his snaps stay consistently at like tight end four or five or whatever it's going to be throughout training camp? Or do they ramp them up there and eventually get him up there with a drew Ogletree being like the pseudo starters on this team I'm curious to see that I'm curious to see if guys like Gould and AD Mitchell can keep climbing up and getting more reps with the first team I know Mitchell's already gotten some out there but do these guys work their ways into certain packages and and moments with the first team? That's going to be a big thing to watch there. Some other players on defense, like you mentioned, Carlisle continually getting those first team reps in base defense. I know we call

Starting point is 00:27:14 it base defense, but it's only like 15% of the time. So the sub package of base defense, basically. And then like you mentioned with like safety, can Nick cross hold off Rodney Thomas and, and Ronnie and Ronnie Harrison, that's going to be a huge thing for Nick cross because if he can't do this, man, I think we can officially call that, you know, the, the draft pick like not the greatest one. Yeah. There's a couple of guys where this is truly make or break. And I think he's one of them. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. And then you got, you know, the, the young guys at corner,

Starting point is 00:27:44 can Jalen Jones continue doing what Jalen Jones has been doing I think it's a great sign that he's been able to hold off Dallas Flowers to this point uh can you keep doing that and then other players can lie out to lot to eventually work his way into more first team reps and stuff like that I'm curious to see how they ramp those guys up like will it stay consistent where it's like okay we're going to keep giving our veterans more first team snaps and go from there? Or do they start ramping these guys up a little bit and work them out there with the first team and let them get acclimated to what the first team is doing? Yeah, absolutely. Especially with Jelani Woods, that is such a boomer bust move right now because I feel like he has a really niche role in camp right now.

Starting point is 00:28:23 I do think the intention is to ramp him up. And they talk a lot about developing these young players right now and putting them in a lot of different situations. So it would be unlike them for this time of year to make him just like a passing down guy. Go be the field stretching tight end. I do think they want to give him some opportunities to block and do complete tight end stuff just to see where he's at in his development uh but yeah i mean he's

Starting point is 00:28:50 going to be given the opportunity to go up the depth chart because he's got he's got the highest upside of of any other tight end on the roster um but these other guys man like everybody else is doing everything right and i mean he rebounded from a rough first day as well. So he's, he's gotta, you know, keep riding the high tide with the rest of the group. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. One thing, one quick thing I do want to say about the tight end group, especially with pads coming on, if one of these guys can show they can block outside of drew Ogletree and Moelle Cox, that's going to be the key to pushing Mo out off the roster, which I know a lot of the fans like that love the Colts want Moelle Cox off the roster going to be the key to pushing Mo off the roster, which I know a lot of the fans that love the Colts want Moelle Cox off the roster. The only way he's not making the team

Starting point is 00:29:30 is if one of Mallory, Grant, and Woods can be an effective run blocker because they're going to need that guy behind Ogletree that can block in the run game because if something happens, Ogletree, obviously you don't want to be stuck with nobody who can perform in the run game. One of these guys has to step up and I think Woods, it's a perfect opportunity, man. He's got Because if something happens, obviously, you don't want to be stuck with nobody who can perform in the run game. So one of these guys has to step up. And I think Woods, it's a perfect opportunity, man. Like, he's got the size. Like, get out there and show what you can do as a run blocker.

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