Locked On Colts - Daily Podcast On The Indianapolis Colts - Indianapolis Colts' Anthony Richardson Starts Joint Practice, Nick Cross Shines

Starting point is 00:00:00 Joint practices with the Chicago Bears kicked off and QB1 had himself an efficient day. Let's get to it. You are Locked On Colts, your daily Indianapolis Colts podcast. Part of the day here. This is your daily podcast covering your Indianapolis Colts. Part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. I am Zach Hicks, and joining me today is Horseshoe Huddles Boots on the ground there in the pitch black night. If you guys are joining us on YouTube, our guy Jake Arthur, just again, the greatest beat writer in Indianapolis Colts history.

Starting point is 00:00:58 Now, that's what we say here on the show. I can't like beat writers. On today's show, though, guys, we're going to be talking about the Colts offense and this joint practice against Chicago Bears. We're talking about the Colts defense, which will be a little bit lighter because Jake was watching more of the offense today

Starting point is 00:01:14 and watching QB1. And then we're going to kick it off. We're going to finish up this entire show with your guys' questions and all the things that you really wanted to hear about this joint practice. I'm sure you guys will have quite a few questions there at the end. So make sure you throw them in the comment section.

Starting point is 00:01:28 If you're joining us on YouTube, if you guys are joining us on audio, just remember we go live stream after these practices to talk about everything that just happened. So you guys can join us there on our YouTube channel, Locked on Colts, and just have some fun and join the conversation with us. So Jake, talk about this Colts offense. There were some slight disagreements and reports from people about the type of day quarterback Anthony Richardson had today. Obviously, Stephen Holder put out something saying it was one of his roughest practices yet. But by all accounts, it looked like he had a really efficient 11 on 11 day. A lot of Bears reporters were dishing out praise to Richardson throughout the day. Uh, so what did you see from QB one as a, I think is what his first practice now of,

Starting point is 00:02:10 of after being the official, uh, quarterback, one of the Colts, uh, second one, uh, Stike, Stike and crown him QB one after the bills game. Um, so no, it was this, his performance kind of required nuance when examining it. So in 11 on 11s, he was pretty efficient. He was 15 of 19. You could consider it 16 of 20 also, depending on penalties, what have you. But a lot of underneath stuff spread the ball around to a lot of different receivers. His first five completions were to different guys. When you consider he didn't have as many downfield throws as he normally does,

Starting point is 00:02:52 it makes a lot of sense because he's going against Matt Eberflus' defense. We all have experience seeing that for four or so years. That defense, for its flaws, does not give up big plays downfield. And then so going against a rookie quarterback, of course it didn't today. So a lot of underneath stuff for Richardson, which is kind of good because that's kind of the biggest area he needed to work on. You know what I mean? It's like going to the driving range and not taking your driver with you

Starting point is 00:03:20 because you know you need to work with your irons. So it was a pretty good day of work for anthony being able to get a lot of the shorter stuff out of the way but seven on sevens was not great um pretty pretty inaccurate i don't want to say inaccurate it always kind of comes down to a timing thing uh some miscommunications he did uh, interception where him and Josh Downs just weren't necessarily on the same page. Uh, it was, it was kind of a good chunk downfield over the middle of the field. Um, he just kind of skied it and Eddie Jackson was there to pick it off. Uh, after, after practice Downs just kind of said it was a miscommunication. Shane did as well. Uh, it basically, you know, with Downs, they're entrusting him to use his instincts as a

Starting point is 00:04:06 route runner a lot uh so i think down sensed something in the secondary where he cut off the route in a different direction where he thought it should go and richardson just wasn't anticipating it that's kind of what it seemed like um but other than that richardson just uh i don't know it seems like when he doesn't have pressure coming at him, it's not enough to speed up his clock. Because he holds onto the ball too long in seven-on-sevens also. He's just always kind of trying to look for something, make a play when it's not necessarily there.

Starting point is 00:04:42 So seven-on-sevens is almost always his worst portion of practice. And it was again today. And I think it just looked worse because he threw the pick to Eddie Jackson. And then on his very next play, he almost threw a pick again on a kind of a more shallow outside throw to the boundary to Kylan Granson. The linebacker was right there to bat it, bat it away and almost intercepted it. So again, not a great day from seven on sevens, but in general, in 11 on 11s, it was efficient. I didn't really know how to categorize his day. I didn't want to call it good. I didn't want to say it was bad, but he was efficient.

Starting point is 00:05:18 Yeah. If you guys want to drop questions about why we think Richardson struggles a little more in seven on sevens versus 11 on 11s, that's's great we'll talk about that in our final segment with the questions there but i did want to move on to josh downs getting a lot of work with the first team today because obviously we talked about this all training camp where it's like it felt like just a matter of time before josh downs becomes that starting slot receiver for the colts but it seems like it's kind of happening now it seems seems like the last two practices, it's been Josh Downs with the ones. Obviously Isaiah McKenzie has been rotating in there a little bit,

Starting point is 00:05:49 but it seems like the time is now for both these young guys, both for Anthony Richardson and for Josh Downs at slot receiver. Yeah. After practice, Shane Steichen was asked about it again because I asked him about it on Tuesday. I was like, you know, you just made Anthony QB one and Josh Downs ran exclusively with the ones today. Is that an indication of his promotion too? And he kind of just alluded to, it's still a rotational thing. And after practice today, he talked about there's

Starting point is 00:06:16 room for both of them to be on the field. So receiver, you know, it's kind of different because they use so many different mixtures of receivers, but on the depth chart, I think Josh Downs is the starting slot now. I just don't really find it to be a coincidence of the timing of this, putting him in there as they make Anthony the official starting quarterback. It's the right move. I mean, Downs has looked great. He's catching everything. He's getting a ton of work in 7 on sevens and 11 on 11s.

Starting point is 00:06:47 He even looks really good in one-on-ones. He couldn't be beat today. He's just so crafty. And he has, he just has a sixth sense as a route runner. He just knows where to go and where to find the soft spots and coverage. And that's really, really invaluable. And I think, you know, Shane Steichen holds him in high regard. We already knew Reggie Wayne does. So I can't imagine he's not really the

Starting point is 00:07:12 starting slot going forward. Yeah. And now we have one more topic to talk about here before we get out of the offense. And I, it's kind of a bearing the lead a little bit. I know, obviously we want to talk about Richardson and downs, but this Col colts offensive line tonight i did not hear one single good thing about them i know ryan kelly missed today's practice with a foot injury uh starting right guard will fries also left early with a calf injury brayden smith was in his first practice back after his little unique little uh injury that he had so you know there are maybe some reasons but there's also reasons why we're scared of this offensive line after everything we went through last season. And it seems like they had an atrocious practice today, Jake. Is that a fair assessment to say that they failed the stinkometer tonight?

Starting point is 00:07:55 Yeah, it was it was closer to the bad portion of the stinkometer today. I don't want to say it was atrocious because some of it was attributed to penalties. You know, they didn't really get much going in the run game and they did give up a couple sacks. But again, Anthony's holding on to the ball for a while. There were several times where we made a comment like, wow, look at this. You know, look at this protection. He's got a lot of time to throw. So it was it was kind of if it's if it's right down the middle it was leaning towards more of a three on the scale of one to ten um but it wasn't a great day again in

Starting point is 00:08:34 general um the pressure didn't really worry me but the the penalties and the lack of a run presence did did worry me a little bit because this bears defensive line, isn't really a formidable front. I mean, Matt Eberflus is, is good at what he does and coaching the defensive front, but their line isn't that great. So I don't know.

Starting point is 00:08:57 We'll, we'll see what tomorrow brings, but yeah, they definitely failed the stinkometer today. I think I saw it was what two false starts and four holds, I think is what I saw somebody put out there. Yeah, there was like six penalties altogether on the offensive line. It was ugly.

Starting point is 00:09:13 Again, Pinter's in there at center. Arlington Hambright played most of the time at right guard, which I didn't really notice him doing anything poor. I think a lot of the pressure was mostly coming around the edges when it was coming. But in general, it looked like a unit that had just been thrown together. And it shows you how important that continuity is. And you kind of hope that the same starting five that they've had all offseason goes into week one. Yeah, yeah, for sure.

Starting point is 00:09:40 I think we're going to get a lot of questions here that we might have to answer in the final segment. But the time, it's at least time to work out some more alignment after what we saw from the second team the other day. And now with injuries piling up across the offensive line. So we'll see what the Colts do. They do have that fourth waiver claim spot. So maybe they can do something there. But coming up, guys, we're going to talk about this Colts defense.

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Starting point is 00:11:50 some defensive topics here. And obviously one of the biggest news and notes are these young safeties making some plays happen out there. I know, again, you weren't really watching defense, but I saw Nick Cross had multiple interceptions. I think Ronnie Thomas had an interception tonight. So pretty promising sign again from a defense that did not get a lot of turnovers last season at all. Yeah. The Colts past defense definitely won the day on that side of the ball. And it was young guys getting all involved. Nick Cross, of course, two interceptions, one in seven on sevens against, I think that one was PJ Walker the one against Justin Fields was in 11 on 11s I believe both of them were off of batted passes so you know he's able to get the tip drill working that they always practice Rodney Thomas had another interception

Starting point is 00:12:40 of Justin Fields and 11 on 11s Dariusarius Rush, he seems like a guy that's going to be able to make plays in bunches because he did that during the spring. Hadn't really done it at the beginning of camp, but obviously had to pick six against Buffalo on Saturday. Had another pick six today against PJ Walker. So, or yeah, against PJ Walker, I think. He did give up a big play to Velas Jones, but that's just kind of the highs and lows you're going to ride with these young guys. But no, the young guys are showing great playmaking ability, and for a team that really lacked takeaways last year,

Starting point is 00:13:16 that's going to be pretty big. Yeah, I kind of want to go to a more macro conversation about this Colts secondary if we have time here in this segment, but did you have any other news and notes when it came to the Colts defense I know uh Jannard Avery went down with an injury did you get any update about that yeah uh we had we didn't know what that is yet he got carted off um his might have been I I don't have too many details on that so I guess I don't want to speculate yet and we didn't hear about about it from Coach Steichen. So maybe nothing too crazy, but we'll see. Quitty Paye and Samson Aboukham had a nice sack late in practice against Justin Fields.

Starting point is 00:13:56 That's when they were running the hurry up. They were running two-minute drills out there, two-minute and four-minute. So to be able to get to a very mobile very mobile quarterback, uh, in an end of game situation is pretty good. Um, there was a series from Dallas flowers and, and, uh, Tony Brown that I really liked. So Justin Fields beat both of those guys downfield, uh, when the flowers, uh, it was no. Okay. So he had DJ more on a deep throw over the middle of the field against Tony Brown and then later he had a deep throw to Velas Jones again actually I think down the left sideline and that one was with Dallas Flowers

Starting point is 00:14:38 in coverage so right after in consecutive plays Brown gets a pass breakup and then Flowers gets a pass breakup again during Flowers gets a pass breakup. Again, during the late game session. So I liked how those two guys rebounded from that. And then we always have to put our little flag on these underappreciated linebackers. Liam Anderson ended the game, baby. PJ Walker was out there trying to make something happen. Ended the day with a pass breakup.

Starting point is 00:15:05 You cannot get past Liam Anderson. Don't even try. You with your random linebackers. I knew Liam Anderson would be your guy this year, but no, that's good to hear. It's good to hear the defense is able to buckle down, buckle down late.

Starting point is 00:15:17 Cause I did hear a lot of stuff early in practice. You know, the bears were able to complete a lot of deep passes, a lot, do a lot of things down the field. And it seems like the defense did rebound well late and late in the day so that that's really good to hear um i did kind of want to again go to more of a macro conversation about this cold secondary right now because it seems like they have three pretty decent young safeties that they have and obviously i think this cornerback group is really starting to figure

Starting point is 00:15:44 itself out you know what we're going to get from this cornerback room and kind of what the rotation is going to be. So would you agree with me right now, Jake, that if the season were to start tomorrow, the two starters at corner would be Baker Jr. and Dallas Flowers would be your two starters. And then you would have Juju Brents and Jalen Jones as your next guys up on the outside. Yeah, talking strictly about the outside, not including Kenny in the slot and Tony Brown in the slot. Yeah, that's how it would be outside. Daryl Baker and Dallas Flowers outside, Jalen Jones and Juju Brents on the outside with the second team.

Starting point is 00:16:22 That's how it's been so far. I think Darius Rush is going to be catching up quickly. But Jalen Jones, he's been the only constant among those rookies. And he's had a really strong showing. He's not been outstanding or anything, but he's progressively getting better. And he's not constantly getting beaten. So he's had a really strong offseason as well but again i think it's just a matter of time till rush kind of pokes his nose in there again yeah darius rush versus jalen jones

Starting point is 00:16:51 feels like a rocchison versus isaiah rogers thing where yeah darius rush is going to get you the more highlight plays and the interceptions and and the really really great uh highs or whatever but he's also going to have the lows where he's going to get beat deep he's going to get out muscled down the field uh he's going to get beat by a really good route or whatever where jalen jones just like a rocky sin is just going to be on top of every route you know he's going to be really competitive there's not going to be many interceptions but there's going to be a lot of past breakups uh so i think that's a really interesting battle there and honestly again if both these guys are playing well i i'm not complaining you know we need these young

Starting point is 00:17:23 corners to be stepping up so uh really interesting there with the cornerback room. And then safety room, we actually had a good question here that I didn't want to save to the end. They're going to have to find ways to get Nick Cross on the field, aren't they, this year? And I think what we can say these last couple practices, and you can see a little bit in the game, he didn't play too much in the game, but it's like, I do think Nick Cross is going to play himself into a position where it's

Starting point is 00:17:45 like, yeah, I think we need to get him on the football field this year. Even if that's at the expense of Blackman, Julian Blackman coming off a little bit more or an extra linebacker coming off more because you don't want to sit this 21 year old athletic freak and not get him the experience that he needs. Yeah. And I've kind of gone from thinking he's a guy you have to get on the field and find reps where you can like an EJ speed. And eventually I think I'm going to get to the point where, when is he your starter at strong safety? Uh, because I mean, Julian

Starting point is 00:18:18 Blackman is going to be a free agent. He, unfortunately for him is no stranger to injury. You know, he is, he's only participating today in like his second or third practice of camp. Uh, and cross has been out there the whole time looking good. He's, he was running out there with Rodney Thomas a lot today and yeah, his, his trajectory is only going up. Like they're going to have, they can't just shut him out of the defense like they did last year. It's totally different scenario this year than it was last year um but regardless of whether he's the starter he has to get snaps and then he's eventually probably going to be the starter yeah i think it it's really interesting again this young this young defensive backfield where i'm not going to crown them by any means i'm not going to sit here and say

Starting point is 00:19:04 oh this group is going to be amazing. The Colts are in a great spot with these young guys because it's going to be like the Anthony Richardson thing where it's going to be some really bad moments, but there's going to be hopefully some good moments in there as well. But I'm really liking how these battles are turning out. I'm liking some like how these guys are playing. You know, we're not seeing a bunch of guys shrink under the pressure of these camp battles. And you're seeing guys like Nick Cross and Darryl Baker Jr.

Starting point is 00:19:27 and Dallas Flowers all come out better for it. So I'm excited for this defensive backfield, even if it's not going to be perfect this year. Yeah, for sure. Again, there's going to be a lot of growing pains. We're going to have to hear fans call guys busts and that they're no good a lot. But again, it's just like an offensive tackle.

Starting point is 00:19:45 It gives up one sack, which negates an entire game of being a stalwart. They're going to give up some touchdowns. They're going to give us big plays, but you just want to see these guys grow and kind of limit those plays and things like that as the season goes on. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Now coming up, guys, we're going to go to some of your questions again. If you guys want to leave us questions, if you're listening on audio here, join us for our live streams throughout the week, and you could really enjoy a lot of questions and really interacting with us after practice.

Starting point is 00:20:10 So coming up, we're going to answer some of your guys' questions about this joint practice with the Chicago Bears. All right. So first up, we got our guy Techno Gamer. Techno Gamer is joining. He's always the first one in here. So we have to throw him up here, obviously. But how are the linebackers looking? Is Shaquille Leonard still looking good out there? I didn't personally hear anything about the linebackers tonight, but did you see anything from Leonard or the other linebackers tonight? I kind of made a mental note during positional drills

Starting point is 00:20:39 that he was moving around really well. I didn't really notice anything from him in the team drills. Again, I only saw like 20 minutes of the Colts' defense in team drills. But, no, Leonard looks good out there. I mean, this is honestly probably a really good team for him to go against right now because I think it was Gus Bradley said the next thing they want to see out of him is just tackling consistently and things like that. That's kind of the next checkmark he needs to hit. this is a bears team that's very very run heavy so he's going to get all the opportunity today and tomorrow and then if he plays saturday uh to kind of check

Starting point is 00:21:16 those boxes yep we got our guy uh sin affinity and beyond sin affinity and beyond i believe says for the love of god sign reisner or norwell free agent right guards that are available right now um i knew we're going to get some comments and questions about this but uh look i'm not saying that like here's the thing if an offensive lineman is still available at this point in the offseason odds are they're not going to be that helpful for your team because the whole league just does not like holy doesn't have quality on the offensive line like that's just not a thing across the league so there's there has to be something with Dalton Reisner still being available with Andrew Norwell still being

Starting point is 00:21:54 available so I'm not saying these guys are not could not be upgrades for the Colts but like thinking that the Colts are going to find a perfect fix out there at this point in the offseason I don't think is realistic even though I do agree that like, why not just bring in some more bodies at this point, there's enough injuries, there's enough poor play with the second unit. Why not bring them out there? But I don't think there's going to be that instant fix out there and free

Starting point is 00:22:17 agency at this point in the off season. No, I agree. And it's, it's kind of let the best man win, but you're so close to the season now that it's like, if you were going to do it, you should have done it a month ago. There is kind of a clear weak spot right now on the line with,

Starting point is 00:22:32 with Will Fries and shoot, even some depth would help. Like Dan Skipper has not erased the concerns in past blocking that you thought. So, I mean, it's not just fries either. Like fries could get them through the season and I don't think it'd be a big deal. But you're still looking for depth in some other areas. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. We did get a question from David here asking about did Jonathan Taylor show up today or not? Cause I think we didn't address that at the very top of the show, but Jonathan Taylor was away from the Colts again today with a personal matter.

Starting point is 00:23:04 We're not going to speculate anything more than that, though, because you guys know us. We don't like to speculate on that stuff. But they did say it was an excused absence for him today. So that's all we're going to say. We've talked about this enough here. Well, from the people I've talked to, because when I reported, you know, the Colts released the statement. There was a lot of people just thinking this is like another layer to the saga. My understanding from, you know, people I've talked to and from what they've heard

Starting point is 00:23:31 is this is like a legit excused absence. Like it is a real personal matter. He has to go 10-2 away from the team. So I'm going to err on the side of, you know, keeping him in my thoughts for whatever is going on. Like, I'm going to try and compartmentalize and keep this away from the ankle and the hold in type of stuff. Yeah, this seems like a legit thing a person is going through. Yeah, the one thing I will say about this is, you know, when it comes to a personal matter and stuff like this or something that could be really serious,

Starting point is 00:24:03 the worst thing you can do is assume because we all know what they say when you assume I'm not allowed to say it here on the podcast but we all know what they say when you assume and don't do that with something that is a personal matter or maybe not again I don't know but just don't do that with something that could be really serious so that's all we're going to say about that here our guy Technogamer had another question here is the pass rush improving? He says he's pretty unsure about some of the defensive ends still. I will say one thing before you get into what you saw in practice or what you heard in practice.

Starting point is 00:24:32 I was pretty impressed with Khalid Kareem in this past preseason game. If we're just talking depth pass rushers, I thought he had a really good game, had a really nice sack off the edge. And I also thought our boy Adetomi had a really good game as well. He still doesn't really know how to disengage from blocks, but his explosion is enough to drive guards into the lap of quarterbacks.

Starting point is 00:24:52 So I did like what some of these guys did in this past preseason game. And have you seen anything these last couple of practices since then, Jake, that says like, hey, you know what? These rotational pass rushers are looking pretty good. Well, I do want to note that Quidipe and Samson Abukim teamed up for a would-be sack on Justin Fields today.

Starting point is 00:25:09 But no, I think Titus Leo has shown some nice things. He's got some juice to him. I think Taequann Lewis, again, I hate to sound like this, but for however much he's able to give you this season, I think he's still probably getting his legs under him, but he's always been pretty productive when he's out there. Al-Kadim Mohamed has been very productive in his role during camp. So the rotational guys, I don't know if this defensive end group

Starting point is 00:25:41 is going to give the Colts the production that they maybe hope for. But I don't think it's going to be a huge problem. Like the Colts have been much worse off at defensive end than they have what I think they have now. I don't know that we're going to see those long stretches of time where they fail to even hit a quarterback. You know what I mean? Yeah, I think having a trio as your top defensive end, you know what i mean yeah i think having a trio as your top defensive ends you know a rotational trio of quitty pay samson abukam and uh dio dangbo is going to be really solid for the colts this year so we you know obviously you're looking at other guys below

Starting point is 00:26:14 that to make the team and and see if they can provide anything but i think that top trio is going to be really solid you know you have two of those pass rushers going into year three hopefully really healthy this year with those two and then ab a book is a really quality pass rusher. They signed it for agency. So I think, I think that trio is going to be fine. I'm not too concerned about them. And obviously I'm not concerned about DeForest Buckner either. I think, you know, I think I would,

Starting point is 00:26:36 I think I can live with the fact that like, maybe you don't have like any premier pass rushers, but you do have edge guys that are all decent run defenders as well. Yeah. I think having a handful shoot, pretty much almost all those guys have are multifaceted. They're not, you don't really have any designated pass rushers in this group as far as we

Starting point is 00:26:59 know. Yeah. Yeah. We have another question here. Could anyone supplant Tony Brown at slot corner number two? I know Jake and I have talked about this a couple of times on the podcast this offseason saying like, hey, why not get a Dallas Flowers in there as the backup slot corner just so you don't have to keep a Tony Brown?

Starting point is 00:27:16 And we're not saying this because we dislike Tony Brown by any means, but it's more so that you can keep more of these younger guys here. But so far in camp, it really doesn't feel like the Colts are trying out anybody else at slot. Right, Jake? Well, Chris Lamons has seen a lot of work there too. I mean, we saw him out there Saturday. Like he's gotten a lot of run with the ones, twos and threes at slot. And again, I'm not super sure why, like he hasn't looked like a detriment yet,

Starting point is 00:27:42 but he's going to be suspended to start the year. So if he sticks around on the team after his suspension i imagine he is the next in line in the slot okay and what it's worth i think trevor denbo might be your emergency nickel or maybe nick cross they didn't mention nick cross a couple times yeah i mean julian black on nick cross factor into that as well. But as far as guys who aren't coming in from really a different position necessarily. Yeah. Or our utility guys, but.

Starting point is 00:28:13 Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I did hear Ron Milas talked pretty high about Nick Cross doing some, some slot stuff as well. So who knows? We could see a safety come down there. We'll have to see how it comes down, how that numbers game plays out. Two quick questions. We'll touch on these pretty quick here.

Starting point is 00:28:28 We have a question on how much Anthony Richardson is going to play this Saturday, if we've had any news on that. I believe we haven't heard anything about that yet, Jake. I don't think Shane Steichen has said anything about that. No, he got asked about it again tonight after practice. He said they're still working through it. If I had to guess, he'll probably play a series or two on Saturday and then perhaps not at all in the third game.

Starting point is 00:28:51 Yeah, that makes sense. That totally makes sense. Just my guess. Yeah. And then we have one more question here. Will Jelani Woods get out on the field this offseason? Hamstrings, man. Hamstrings are cool.

Starting point is 00:29:03 Hamstrings have been killing them during camp, and most of the guys who have come in with hamstrings have missed a couple weeks. So Woods hopefully is going to get back soon. Luckily, he's not a guy you need to see a ton from to know what he's able to do. But, I mean, still, right now, Kylan Granson is running away with everything because Moe Alleycox has also missed a week, week and a half with an ankle. And Will Mallory is finally back. Drew Ogletree has a shoulder.

Starting point is 00:29:32 You just want to see all these tight ends out there. Because these guys are missing a ton of reps. Yeah. I mean, Kylan Granson's eating them all up. Yeah. We know what Kylan Granson is. Kylan Granson has had a phenomenal camp. Yeah, but we know what he is at this point. I honestly don't even need to get reps from Kylan Granson's eating them all up, but yeah, we know what he is at this point. Like, I honestly don't even need to get reps from Kylan Granson outside. Just building that chemistry with Anthony

Starting point is 00:29:51 Richardson, because like, we know what he is. He's going to get you like 400 receiving yards this year, be a really solid dude. Um, but you want to see these other guys out there for sure. Yeah, absolutely. And so everyone with that, I think that does it for us tonight. We'll be back with you guys tomorrow. Another night practice, probably about the same time before we move on. I want to remind you guys about this new thing that we'll be doing before

Starting point is 00:30:19 every home game. So there's going to be a four hour tailgate over at nevermore at union station starts this Saturday. And for an hour of that, each, every home game. So there's going to be a four hour tailgate over at nevermore at union station, uh, starts this Saturday. And for an hour of that, each, uh,

Starting point is 00:30:29 each pregame, I'm going to be hosting, uh, kind of a special pregame show of locked on Colts. Um, I'll link the, uh, the link for tickets and everything like that and all the information,

Starting point is 00:30:39 uh, and the show notes, but it's a great deal. You get like an all you can eat buffet and open bar, which that's nice. Uh, and then, you know, there it's a great deal. You get like an all-you-can-eat buffet, an open bar, which that's nice. And then, you know, there's a ton of games. I don't know if you guys have been there yet, but that bar is really cool. But shoot, no, I can't encourage you guys to do that enough.

Starting point is 00:30:58 Also, obviously, I want to see all you guys out there. I'm used to talking to you guys on here. So come on out and show some love and have some fun at the game. And it all gets wrapped up in time to get over to the stadium as well. Yeah, you know, if you guys show a lot of love to Jake this season when he's doing all those live streams and those live performances out there, maybe I'll make the drive out there for one of them. If you guys

Starting point is 00:31:16 really want to, I'll make the long drive just so I can see you. Only if it's going well. I know. I just want to see all you beautiful everydayers in person yet again. So if you guys don't already, follow at LockedOnColts at Jake Jake, at the Reddifl, and at Zach Hicks, too, all on the beautiful platform that is called X. Also, subscribe to LockedOnColts podcast on YouTube or every list of your podcasts. We love your guys' ratings and reviews, and we'll see you guys back here tomorrow night.

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