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Starting point is 00:00:57 Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com slash Locked On NFL. That's LinkedIn.com slash Locked on NFL to post your job for free. Terms and conditions apply. What's up, everybody? I am Jake Arthur. He is Zach Hicks. You know the two of us from horseshoehuddle.com. Coming to you live again for the first time in a bit. That'll kind of be our format for a good chunk of training camp coming up here. But yeah, you know us from horseshoehuddle.com again. I'm the kind of boots on the ground daily credentialed media member. And Zach is just the nicest, sweetest film guy in the whole game today. So you're just trying to make up since the grimy

Starting point is 00:01:39 comment a couple of years ago. Well, I'm building you up because I'm going to come back with something devastating in the coming days. I just got to figure what it's going to be. Something that you think is, is nice, but it ends up being an insult again. Okay. I'm ready. Exactly. Yep. But on today's Eve Eve of training camp, uh, it was actually kind of a busy day for Colts related stuff that had nothing to do with training camp really. But the team will report on Tuesday to camp. First practice will be Wednesday. We're going to, you know, we're going to kind of touch on some of the big items that we're focusing on

Starting point is 00:02:13 throughout camp, you know, things coming up in the next day or so. But also talk about some of these non-camp related news items. So yesterday or yesterday, yeah, Al-Kadin Muhammad was announced that Al-Kadin Muhammad was announced. It was announced that Al-Kadin Muhammad was coming back to the Colts. Uh, that is the defensive end who is here from 2018 to 2021. Uh, Matt Iberflues is basically Matt Iberflues' staple. They were here married together the whole time.

Starting point is 00:02:41 Um, Muhammad went and joined Iberflues when Ibraflux became the head coach of the Bears. He hit free agency again. And now months into the game of the new free agency, he has found his way back to the Colts. Zach, you kind of had a fun little tweet reaction to that. I found it in a piece today that was Colts fans react to Al-Kadim Muhammad signing. Really? You made the list. You did.

Starting point is 00:03:07 Wait, wait. It was Kevin. It was Kevin. Oh, Kevin. Okay, it was Kevin. I didn't see that. That's hilarious. I got to look that up.

Starting point is 00:03:15 Yep, you made the list. Yeah. No, Al-Kadim Muhammad, man. Super happy to have him back. I'm just completely off topic here, but what's the record for defensive end snaps in one season i'm just curious like this has nothing to do with the defensive end you'd say a thousand so he's gonna triple it probably yeah yeah like three thousand snaps

Starting point is 00:03:35 he's gonna get 150 of the defensive snaps this year is what he's gonna get but in all honesty look al-qaeda muhammad, very solid rotational player to have. Good run defender. Obviously not a guy that you really want out there on pass rushing downs, but he's not capable of rushing the passer. He can do it. It's just, you know, you don't want him to be the guy who's rushing the passer 500 times in a season.

Starting point is 00:04:03 You don't really want anybody doing that, obviously. But Al-Q muhammad you certainly don't want to be the guy doing that so as long as he settles into being that like you know healthy scratch defensive end every single week or a five snap a week type of player it's perfectly fine to have that like that that's like what what was khalid kareem last year late in the season yeah like if he's just that that's like what what was Khalid Kareem last year late in the season yeah like if he's just that that's perfectly fine or Isaac Rochelle a couple years ago like if he just settles into what that role is this is a good signing but if he if the ever if the Iberflues thing happens with him again like I can't imagine it does like there's there's almost no way it happens again with all I mean Abukam is much better

Starting point is 00:04:45 obviously they just signed to a big deal Quiddy and Dio have both been showing a lot in recent uh you know late last season and in recent memory uh and then you have some other players Jannard Avery's pretty interesting Titus Leo's interesting like there's really no reason for him to get those snaps but you know when it comes to the Coles now, Kaden Muhammad, you can never really count it out. So as long as he's settling into that, like five snap a week role, I'm pretty happy with the signing, but outside of that,

Starting point is 00:05:13 you know, can't body. Hopefully we'll see what happens with it. Yeah. For me, honestly, like, I think it's a decent move.

Starting point is 00:05:21 Like it's a decent signing in context like if he if he's your khalid kareem or isaac rochelle perfect awesome because he's better than those guys honestly um i mean that's what the colts were trying to fill that with he's a guy that can get you five or six sacks like he's a decent edge setter like he's a pretty decent player you just don't want him playing over diaio, a dang bow and other young guys that you're trying to get developmental snaps. You know, that was always the problem. You know, he was, he was never someone you don't want on your team. You just don't want him taking the lion's share of these snaps. And so it's a different defensive

Starting point is 00:06:00 coordinator now, but same general manager, uh, Chris Ballard, I don't think, is a guy that pushes his players on the coaching staff necessarily. So, I mean, it'll be all up to Gus Bradley and Nate Ollie how much Muhammad really plays. So that's, to me, I'm going to trust that they're turning over a new leaf when it comes to his playing time. But again, in terms of being a backup defensive end, I'm super cool with it. Like he's not a bad guy in that role. So again, Dio Dangbo cannot be hurt again. That's what we're trying to protect.

Starting point is 00:06:34 Yes, yes. But an unfortunate piece of news that kind of started the day on Monday, Naheem Hines, former Colt, obviously this doesn't affect the Colts this year, but it's still newsworthy nonetheless. He's going to miss this season. He was in kind of a freak jet ski accident where another jet ski driver collided into him while he was stationary. He reportedly tore his ACL and he'll miss the whole season. It sounded pretty scary how it was initially reported serious,

Starting point is 00:07:09 but non-life-threatening injuries, which, you know, very, very grateful for that. We love Naheem here, so we hate for anything bad to happen to him. But, you know, just that's great to hear that under those circumstances, you know, the only thing in jeopardy was his football career for this season. Yeah. Yeah. I don't have too much to say on this, but just happy that it's not life threatening. You know, hopefully he can get back out there later in the future, but at the end of the day, you know, he survived it. Jet ski injuries and jet ski accidents are insane. And people do not know how to drive those things when they get out there. And that's how you

Starting point is 00:07:44 get accidents like this. So I'm just happy. It's not like threatening and, and he know how to drive those things when they get out there. And that's how you get accidents like this. So I'm just happy it's not like threatening and, and he's able to walk away from it. Maybe not walk right now, but you know, he's able to get away from, from that injury with relatively, you know, again, not like threatening injuries with it. And so to bury the lead in segment one, the Colts now actually have all of their rookies under contract.

Starting point is 00:08:07 It was funny because we were in our Slack chat for Horseshoe Huddle, getting everyone ready for Blake Freeland and Juju Brents to sign their contract. And then, oh, here comes Anthony Richardson 10 minutes later. So out of a robust 12-man rookie class, the Colts now have all 12 members under contract. I wasn't really fearful that things with Richardson were going to linger much longer. I know this entire time he's been really eager to get started, hasn't wanted to leave Indy. The Colts obviously want to get him under contract. And the rookie structure obviously makes it significantly easier to get that done.

Starting point is 00:08:43 There's just offset language and things that kind of always have to be tied up. But yeah, everyone under contract coming into camp. Yeah, there was just no rush. I mean, obviously the deadline coming up for Richardson's contract was tomorrow. So you definitely want to get that one done by tomorrow, but they were waiting to see what Bryce Young's came in at. They're waiting to see what CJ Stroud's came in at, and they were going to base kind of their conversations and their negotiations off of those two contracts. So once we saw Bryce Young and CJ Stroud's knocked out the other day, or CJ Stroud's actually knocked out earlier today, I believe.

Starting point is 00:09:16 Once those got knocked out, you know, Richardson's was bound to happen within, you know, the next day or so. So no worries there. I know they kind of took it down to the wire, but as a lot of people it down to the wire, but as a lot of people say, deadlines for action and deadline was tomorrow and they were able to knock it out. Yeah. I think the only holdup was like all of the signing bonus guaranteed up front at once. Like that, that was pretty much the only thing. So I think Stroud's was the same way. So

Starting point is 00:09:39 those three quarterbacks in sequence, you were just kind of waiting to see how, how each of them were going. So next up, we're going to again, talk more about training camp, kind of get into the nitty gritty. What are some of the more important dates to keep an eye on and some of the significant happenings coming up? Some of the people we're going to be talking to upcoming soon and just kind of diving into the whole thing here. But first, a word from our friends over at LinkedIn. These days, every new potential hire can feel like a high stakes wager for your small business. Of course, you want to be 100% certain that you have access to the best qualified candidates available. And that's why you have to check out LinkedIn Jobs. LinkedIn Jobs helps find

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Starting point is 00:11:33 We're going to go live around 4.30, 4.35, you know, this kind of timeframe every single day, Monday through Friday throughout all the training camp. Even if we're not going like fully live some days, we'll pre-record some stuff and throw it out there at like 4.30-ish. That way you guys are going to get consistent content from us throughout the whole month of August and all of training camp at this exact time. So 4.30, 4.35, 4.40.

Starting point is 00:11:57 Tune into that time every single day on Locked On Colts for all your daily content. All right, Jake. So we're getting into some important dates, important just newsworthy things for training camp. for all your daily content all right jake so we're getting into some important dates important uh just newsworthy things for training camp just because this is like you said training camp eve eve or eve eve-ish whatever however you want to say it there uh with that um you know training camp is coming up it's the biggest event of the summer when it comes to your football fandom here so what what important dates do we have to watch? I know the Colts have,

Starting point is 00:12:26 they have two joint practices this off season, which is pretty insane. Well, they have two that are open to Colts fans. They're actually got three. So yeah. So, you know, they report on Tuesday players and everyone report on Tuesday, their first practice will begin Wednesday, but you fast forward a couple of weeks. You've got joint practices with the Chicago bears on the 16th and 17th. And then that actually concludes the portion of training camp in Westfield. Uh, uh, and you know, for the Colts, everything else

Starting point is 00:12:59 after that, uh, they go and visit the Eagles out in Philadelphia, the Philadelphia area, on August 22nd ahead of their preseason game. So it's kind of cool this year. Training camp, again, for Colts fans ends with two night practices, joint practices with the Bears. So that's pretty cool. They also have night practices this upcoming Saturday, the 29th, and then Saturday, August 5th as well. So those night practices are always really popular, always get sold out. So they've got several of them this year. And for two of them to be against the Bears, it's pretty cool.

Starting point is 00:13:34 Yeah. So when you say night practices, Jake, are you talking night practices for old people like us? Like, is this like 6 p.m.? Or is this like, what is it, like a later practice? Yeah. like 6 p.m or is this like like what is it like a later practice yeah i think the yeah i think they normally go six to eight if i i don't have the schedule right in front of me but i think it's about six to eight six seven thirty so forth okay yeah those are those are night practice for old people like but those are in the morning this year yeah yeah sorry exactly otherwise it's like 9 a.m 10 a.m lots of those yeah yeah you're cutting out

Starting point is 00:14:12 a little bit on mine or i'm cutting go ahead yeah i don't know you've yeah you flickered i also have storms coming through here so you flickered to me but also i have storms coming through my area so i don't know if you're in central Indiana right now, you know exactly that there's storms coming through. All right. All right. This is what happens when you go live guys, you guys put in the comment section, if it's Jake messing up or it's me messing up, but that's what you got to do. Make sure. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's you. I think it's you. I have all the technology on my side here, but I'm just going to start talking. No,

Starting point is 00:14:48 with, with training camp coming, what's really cool. They're going to get a two joint practices this year. Obviously for Colts fans, you only get to see the Chicago bears ones, but two of them out there in Indiana. That's awesome.

Starting point is 00:15:00 And then we have Nathan here in our comment section talking about being a Hoosier in Delaware. So greatly appreciates our our coverage and he's going to be able to watch them in Philly. But no tickets being sold for that preseason practice, unfortunately. Well, Nathan, we appreciate it. But, yeah, you know, the Colts are going to be out there in Philly for those couple of days with some joint practices. But, yeah, I think this is a good experience for the Colts. You know, typically you only get the the one joint practice session per offseason. And that joint practice session is usually the most physical.

Starting point is 00:15:30 It's the most competitive. It's where you really learn a lot about the players. I know a couple of years ago, when I was out of training camp a couple of years ago against the Cleveland Browns, there was a fight every single day. And that Cleveland Browns won. They couldn't even finish that second joint practice with Cleveland Browns there was a fight every single day and that Cleveland Browns one they couldn't even they couldn't even finish that second joint practice with the Browns because like they were fighting during punt like punt drills and everything that was ugly yeah so now the Colts get two sets of those this year and that's where you really again you get to see

Starting point is 00:15:58 the true winners and losers of each day and see which players are able to compete against another team's players out there so uh those are gonna be big for the colts there but uh yeah i know training camp coming up i'm sure they're gonna have a lot of fan events here in india unlike you know what nathan's saying here where i guess the eagles are not selling tickets for that pre-season practice the colts do a really good job of giving tickets out for people i think do tickets cost anything jake i think they're free, aren't they? No, they're free, but you do have to have a ticket for admission.

Starting point is 00:16:28 Yeah. I mean, if you're planning on coming out soon, guys, it's clear bag policy, just like at the stadium. Tickets just go to colts.com, but they are free. So they make it pretty easy. Yeah, yeah, and it's really cool, too, because the, like, again, I've gone out there a couple times. I've been credentialed on on the sideline and I think I went to one practice out in the stands. And what's really cool if you're a fan going to these events and going to these preseason or these training camp practices is you really get the same access that the media does for the most part. Like the media will go and they'll go talk to the coaches and stuff, but you guys get to see the same thing that media is. You're not just relying on what we're saying at practice.

Starting point is 00:17:08 So if you guys are out there at practice and you're seeing something going on on the field and we say something different on here, you can be like, Oh cool. I saw, you know, I saw what was going on. So it's really not like this exclusive event. You know, it's something for all the fans to get excited about. You get to go see the new Colts players Anthony Richardson out there Juju Brents Josh Downs all those younger all those younger guys you get to see Samson Abukam new kicker Matt Gay you get to see him out there that's going to be exciting that's his ax bomb for I'm going to go introduce myself to Matt Gay

Starting point is 00:17:40 when I get out there this year so yeah training camp coming up is always a blast though. And for all you diehard Colts fans, which I'm assuming all of you guys watching this right now, all 50 of you that we have here on YouTube, I mean, you're watching Colts content in July at 4.30 or 4.50 or whatever it is. You're watching Jake bounce around on the screen here with his lightning storm happening.

Starting point is 00:18:01 Like you are clearly diehard Colts fans. So get out there to training camp if you can. Nathan, I'm kind of in the same boat with you unless I get out there to Indiana as well so I understand your pain uh but yeah get out there to the training camp go go see some players you know some players come over and they sign some stuff after practice too like it's a really really cool fan-centered event Jake can obviously attest to that more than I can because I've only been out there a couple times but But the Colts do it better than most teams. You know, I've been to a couple training camps at different teams. Colts do it better than most. They really let their fans see everything and get really excited throughout all of it. The Zach film dungeon. Oh, we highlighted

Starting point is 00:18:43 it at the same time. Yes. No, this is my film dungeon right here. I stay in this film dungeon. Oh, we highlighted it at the same time. Yes. No, this is my film dungeon right here. I stay in this film dungeon on the other side. It's record dungeon though. Yes, that's true. When we will do a live stream sometime this off season and kind of show everything going on there. But, um, but yeah, no, to just bring it back to training camp, make sure you guys are getting out there. It's going to be a blast, a blast for all involved. And if you guys miss it, then, you know, 430, 435 ish every single day throughout training camp. You guys can come here and and listen to what we have to say about it or listen to what Jake really has to say about it. Well, I just kind of chime in with some some craziness. Yep. Yep. That is right.

Starting point is 00:19:20 I mean, shoot, that's about all there is to know. I mean, we're obviously going to have coverage every day. Also,hoehuddle.com. We'll have camp notes there as well. So shoot, Zach, what do you say we move along and talk about some roster battles here in a minute? All right, everybody. So some of the biggest parts of training camp really, and especially this year, because everything is so new. There's a lot of the same faces, but it's under a different coaching staff. Everyone's trying to prove themselves. And so there is some genuine roster battles that we're going to see coming up here.

Starting point is 00:19:58 We'll just kind of start from near the top of the depth chart here. One of the more entertaining ones that we want to look at is at tight end so mo alley cox is the incumbent starter at tight end obviously has been for a year so now since jack doyle retired uh the last season was underwhelming as that lead guy uh whether you want to look at it as from a blocking perspective or as a pass catcher um meanwhile you have jelani woods coming in as a rookie last year, looking awesome in limited action. And so you've got to kind of think, is this the passing of the guard now? Is Jelani Woods going to take the mantle?

Starting point is 00:20:36 Then you've got other guys mixed in there for various roles, like the blocking tight end as well. Farrell Brown, Will Mallory, Drew Ogletree, Caden Smith. We talked about this at length in our tight end as well pharaoh brown will mallory drew ogletree caden smith there's a we we talked about this at length in our tight end uh preview episode but this is a really fascinating group that yeah yeah for sure no when when it comes down to you know the roster battles that you're looking at in camp the the battles that it's like make or break for pretty much everyone involved you know tight end i think is one of the most interesting because if you look at Shane Steichen offenses the last three years, you know, the three years that he's been the play caller for teams at least,

Starting point is 00:21:12 maybe not, obviously not deciding every single player at those positions, but been the play caller, so he has some control over the roster. If you look at the tight end position, he's typically kept between three and four after training camp. Last year was only three with the Eagles, but i think they had like eight guys up throughout the whole year so it was a lot of rotating door uh behind the top three guys uh but it's typically been that three to four and if you actually look at it's mostly the pass catchers they keep you know it's usually one big time blocking tight end and then a lot of pass catching tight ends so

Starting point is 00:21:43 for me i would put jelani woods and kylan granson is pretty safe i think those are your two locks uh jelani woods will be your starter kylan granson will be your grant calcaterra um and and that type of player for the offense but outside of that i mean if they want to go with another pass catcher they have will mallory who they could go with or drew oak tree if he continues what he did last year and then when it comes down to that one blocking tight end, you're going to have a bloodbath battle between Caden Smith, Farrell Brown, and Mo'Ally Cox. Those are all three capable players that have played a while in this NFL and have been good blocking tight ends at some point in

Starting point is 00:22:18 their careers. All three of them are going to have a good chance to make this team, but it really comes down to what they do in camp, what they do in those joint practices, what they do in the preseason. So I think this is the most wide open depth chart in terms of like every single player at this position group has a chance to make the roster. You know, this is the only one on the roster, I think, where you can really say this.

Starting point is 00:22:39 So that's why I think tight end is one of the most interesting roster battles throughout training camp this year. Yeah, I'm pretty interested to see how much of a leg up Mo Alleycox is given because honestly, as we just said, you know, this should be a wide open group, but we'll see. Next up, we're going to look at defensive in-depth. And again, this is a really interesting group as well because you've got guys that can play inside and out um obviously you know quidipe samson abukam um you've got to throw in some guys now uh dio dango taekwon lewis uh al-kadeem muhammad

Starting point is 00:23:12 khalid kareem but then you've got your uh adebore or adetome adebore i think that was it yep i think you got it yeah and then you've just got some guys that could play inside now. He kind of fits along with Taekwon and Dio in that manner. So shoot, it's a lot of guys. You got your young guys like Titus Leo that you could see do something. Jannard Avery is a veteran, but he has kind of settled in as a pass rusher in the NFL because coming into the league, they didn't really know what to do with him.

Starting point is 00:23:44 It was kind of that Obanya Okoronkwo type of situation, linebacker, defensive end, whatever. So he's still kind of developing as a pass rusher as well. So this is going to be a fun group, I think. Yeah. Yeah. It kind of breaks into three type of molds. You got the guys who can play defensive end and can play defensive tackle like Adi Adi, Taequann Lewis, Dio Dang dangbo they're going to kind of

Starting point is 00:24:06 moonlight as both those positions and kind of fills a bunch of weird roles that way so if all three of those guys make it then that really limits the numbers that you keep on the defensive tackle and defensive end groups but then you got jenard avery he's a pure speed rusher you got khalid kareem and aqm which are guys who are more of the run stuffers. Then you got Titus Leo, who's kind of a wild card. You don't know if he's going to be ready to play day one. You don't know if they're going to want to stand him up at linebacker a little bit.

Starting point is 00:24:32 I know there was some talk about that too. Like, it'll be interesting. I think defensive end depth behind those top three guys of Dio, Quitty, and Samson Abukam is going to be really interesting. And, you know, for the first time, and I say this as someone who liked Ben Banigou a lot and and really wanted that to work out they don't feel hamstrung that with the need to keep a young player behind them it really truly is you know you have those

Starting point is 00:24:54 top three guys and then all the rest behind it is just whoever performs best in camp so defensive in depth is going to be a big one to watch in training camp because you want to have that rotation you want to have that rotation. You want to have a bunch of good, good players coming in and just seeing who wins out with this. This really interesting group is going to be fun to watch. And we're going to see those guys a lot, because especially the first couple of weeks of training camp behind the starters, there is no definition of the lineup, especially with Gus Bradley. He turns out those twos and threes, even,rees. Even the bottom of the roster guys will get some reps with who you would think is the two.

Starting point is 00:25:28 So you're going to have to write something new every single rep for those groups. Continuing on the defensive side of the ball, looking at cornerback. So Kenny is pretty much the only implant you know what is happening at cornerback. Otherwise, you got juju brents who again signed his contract today uh you would hope he takes over that other top outside

Starting point is 00:25:52 spot but who's going to have the other outside spot while kenny's a nickel is going to be darius rush dallas flowers uh you've you've got some veterans who you know ke, Kevin Tolliver and Tony Brown have experience and people may not think about them very much, but Jalen Jones did some really nice things during spring ball as well. So again, a group that you just don't, you know what Kenny Moore is and you don't know anything else practically. Yep. Yep. It's going to be a really fun one because like tight end, you know know you have all these guys competing for those bottom roster spots but you also had them competing to start like there's no there's what one starter spot locked up in that slot corner on the outside

Starting point is 00:26:35 obviously juju brents and darius rush have that inside edge but dallas flowers has experienced tony brown has experienced kevin oliver's been in the NFL for a bit. Jalen Jones has a ton of experience at the college level, despite also being only like 21 years old. So yeah, it's going to be a really fun group to see. And hopefully it's fun on the positive side, not fun on the, oh my gosh, we're going to be terrible. Because this could blow up in the Colts face going so young at corner.

Starting point is 00:27:02 But you want to see all these guys get reps. And if the reps don't look good, then you can out and get a veteran uh that can come in and play but I'm excited for these guys I've heard some really really great things about Darius Rush and Jalen Jones so far this offseason uh and I think both those guys are going to be much further ahead than what their draft slots say uh so yeah I'm excited to see all these guys and what Han is asking here is juju expect to participate in camp i do think he's going to do a little bit i think they're going to kind of slow play it a little bit at the beginning yeah uh but i do think juju brentz is going to participate at some point in camp for sure yeah i wouldn't be surprised if he starts

Starting point is 00:27:37 out on the active non-football injury list because again since he's a rookie and he came in a league with the injury it won't be puffed but it's pretty much the same rules um since he didn't do anything with the team and in the spring i wouldn't be surprised if he starts it but they literally could take him off the list the next day like yeah coming on on the pup list or nfi does not really mean anything it just means today you're not practicing essentially um so yeah looking beyond that this uh this last group offensive line depth and i'm gonna be honest i'm gonna change the way i watch these guys this year because you can't get a lot from trench warfare really um in training camp because it's not full go like it's it's basically a dress rehearsal for the play essentially

Starting point is 00:28:26 but last year we could see that this group really stunk and the year before it too you could see that they were bad but you were like these guys really stunk yeah but but you're like i mean we're not in the games yet i'm sure it'll probably be better like they're getting killed by deforest buckner and grover Stewart, which is understandable. I'm not going to take that with such a big grain of salt this summer. If it looks bad, we know they didn't do a ton to the offensive line this offseason. We've talked about it. If it looks bad, I'm going to assume it's going to be bad.

Starting point is 00:29:03 They've got gotta earn it sorry sorry they did when the when the lions came into town that was an issue that's so funny i got it on that one no they really stunk like that that got me there for sure it was rough you really went off the script there. I put down O-line depth, Jake. You were like, no, I'm going to yell about the starters for a second. Everyone. But what I want to say about the O-line depth then,

Starting point is 00:29:36 because I love what Jake was saying there. Well, because we know who the five starters will be. We know who the starters will be. Yeah, I feel safe saying we have the five starters who are the same five starters that be we know we know who the starters will be yeah i i feel safe saying we have the five starters who are the same five starters that ended last season are gonna make the roster and then i would say blake freeland's probably gonna make it as well so you got like six guys that are locked in uh the colts typically keep eight to nine you know typically it's nine uh honestly they'd probably go 10 before they go eight. Uh, so behind that you got Dakota Shepley at, at center, you got Wesley French at center, Amila Key or junior at guard, Danny Pinter

Starting point is 00:30:09 at center, Carter O'Donnell, Jake Witt, who I've heard really, really good things about Jake Witt. So I keep an eye on him definitely in camp, but it's a lot of young guys that you just want to see what they can do. And it's kind of like corner where it's like, if all these young guys do not have a good camp or do what Jake said there. They stink. They just stink. Then you have to go out there and consider a veteran. But that's going to be something really interesting to watch with all those guys, especially a lot of centers to Shepley, French and and Danny Pinter. Like, do one of those guys move over to right guard? Do one of them, you know, bounce over to tackle or something? I don't know. Like, it'll be really interesting to see what they do with all those there.

Starting point is 00:30:47 But I think that's all we have for today, guys. All you beautiful everydayers, again, we're going to be going live around this time every single day. We're going to try to keep it consistent around 4.30. But with work commitments, you know, it might be like 4.35, 4.40. We'll let you guys know early in the day when we schedule the podcast each day. And also, I'm going to be out there for training camp a little bit, August 6th through 11th or 12th.

Starting point is 00:31:09 I will be out there for Colts training camp, making the long trek from Virginia to watch our Colts there in training camp. So if you guys don't already, follow at LockedOnColts, at JakeArthurNFL, and at ZachHicks2, all on X. All on X. No, no, no.

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