Locked On Colts - Daily Podcast On The Indianapolis Colts - Indianapolis Colts' Anthony Richardson Status Up in the Air vs. New York Giants

Episode Date: December 27, 2024

Will the Indianapolis Colts build momentum and get another victory on Sunday against the New York Giants? Will Anthony Richardson play? Jake and Zach break down this matchup. Become a Locked On Colts... insider! Ask your burning questions and get prompt answers from someone who's around the team every day! Get special access from the locker room, practice field, and press box! JOIN HERE! Find and follow Locked On Colts on your favorite podcast platforms:🎧 https://lockedonpodcasts.com/podcasts/locked-on-colts/📺YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLdpxJspi1hMh5HL7ExpWOQLocked On NFL League-Wide: Every Team, Fantasy, Draft & More🎧 https://lockedonpodcasts.com/podcasts/locked-on-nfl/ Follow Jake and Zach's written work on HorseshoeHuddle.com, and give them a follow on Twitter @JakeArthurNFL, @ZachHicks2, @LockedOnColts, and @ColtsOn_SI, as well on TikTok and Instagram! Today's episode is brought to you by Gametime. Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONNFL for $20 off your first purchase. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Hillsdale CollegeAll of Hillsdale’s courses are self-paced so that you can start whenever, and tune in wherever. Plus, you can go deeper with readings, quizzes, discussions - or just enjoy the lectures. Go right now to hillsdale.edu/lockedon to enroll. There’s no cost, and it’s easy to get started.PrizePicksDownload the app and use code lockedonnfl to win $50 instantly when you play $5. You don't even need to win to receive your $50 bonus; it's guaranteed! Prizepicks. Run Your Game.Click Here: https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/LOCKEDONNFLGametimeDownload the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONNFL for $20 off your first purchase. Terms Apply. Download Gametime today. What time is it? Gametime.FanDuelYou can start the season with a big return on FanDuel. New customers can place a FIVE DOLLAR bet, and you’ll get started with TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS in BONUS BETS - if you win your first FIVE DOLLAR BET! Visit FANDUEL.COM to get started.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as non-withdrawable free bets that expire in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN)

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Is Indianapolis Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson set to miss another game this season? Let's get to it. You are Locked On Colts, your daily Indianapolis Colts podcast. Part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. Thank you all for tuning in and making us your first listen of the day. This is your daily podcast covering your Indianapolis Colts, part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. Today's episode is brought to you by GameTime.
Starting point is 00:00:34 Download the GameTime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONNFL for $20 off of your first purchase. Hello, everyone. My name is Zach Hick, your resident film nerd of horseshoehuddle.com, and I'm joined, I like to say as always by Jake Arthur, but it's been a minute since we've been together, but joined by Jake Arthur, of course, here. We have a fun show for you guys planned. We're going to talk about how the Colts defense is set up for hopefully their best game of the season this weekend, how the Colts offense might have a new signal caller under center,
Starting point is 00:01:06 and will that signal caller, a.k.a. Joe Flacco, get his redemption from the last time we saw him out there if he is set to start. But first, we have quite a few injuries to talk about, Jake. I mean, I know I'm burying the lead a little bit here, but there's one that we will get to. But go through the injury list for me, Jake. You were there at practice when Shane Steichen was talking through the injuries.
Starting point is 00:01:27 Yeah, so no one has ruled out yet, which we were all kind of waiting to see who they would rule out who hasn't been there all week, but they're not ruling anyone out yet. But with that said, we've got six guys who are questionable. Offensively, you're looking at tight end Mo Alley-Cox, who, of course, is a starter, and then Quentin Nelson, I think he's going to be fine. I'm not really ever worried about Quentin missing time. Defensively, of course, you've got more starters.
Starting point is 00:01:55 It's always ideal when two of your top three linebackers are questionable, Jalen Carlisle and EJ Speed. Juju Brents, they're still kind of working through the motions to see if he is going to be available to come off of IR yet. And then Jalen Jones is off the injured list. Alec Pierce is off the injured list, so he's back. So you got some guys who are questionable, but the good news is you got a couple guys who are back. But the biggest one, obviously, is Anthony Richardson. He, of course, has not practiced this week. He's got back and foot injuries. Shane Steichen said today that it's
Starting point is 00:02:33 more so the back that's giving him problems, saying that it's just really sore. It happened at some point during the game last Sunday against the Titans. And, you know, it was something maybe adrenaline carried Richardson through it, but he came out of the game, basically feeling really sore with that. So as they've always done, basically anytime he is injured, they've kind of put them in bubble wrap and been really cautious with it. But the interesting part of it, you know, he had the oblique injury earlier in the season. I think it was week six and seven, maybe that he missed, but he at least practiced those two weeks that he missed.
Starting point is 00:03:13 He did not practice this week. So they're not ready to rule him out. They said, you know, we'll see how the next 48 hours go. So however he responds to treatment and if it starts to feel better this weekend, you know, all the mental stuff, you know, he's been able to take all the mental reps. He's been there at practice, just hasn't been physically taking those reps that Joe Flacco has. But if that is the case where Anthony cannot go, it will be Joe Flacco. One more go at it, you know, throw, throw in his hat in the ring one more time to see if he can get a little
Starting point is 00:03:46 redemption from the brief period that he was the designated starter. Yeah. And I have so many thoughts on how this week has transpired with Anthony Richardson's injury update. I mean, it feels like it came out of nowhere on Christmas day. We were, we were told that if they practice he had been, he would have been out. And then he missed the last two days as well of practice. And I just think this situation is the cherry on top to everything that we've gotten from Anthony Richardson and Shane Steichen this season.
Starting point is 00:04:15 You get your starting quarterback who has been dealing with injuries the last two seasons, missing practice all week with, you know, not a super specific injury, which of course that's the Shane Steichen specialty here. We get the Shane Steichen saying it's soreness that he's dealing with, which is an awful way to put it. Like, even if he is just dealing with soreness, don't tell people that because now if he misses this game, you're putting a target on his back and you are telling everybody this is a soft player. That's just what it is. The second you say that S word, you say sore, that just ruins any chance of this game. Maybe that's what he wants. Maybe he wants Richardson to feel that
Starting point is 00:04:54 pressure to play on Sunday, but I don't know. I hate that choice of word. Just say it's a muscle issue with his back. Every one of us who's like near the age of 30 or over the age of 30, Jake, I mean, come on. We know what it is when you say a muscle issue in the back. I have muscle issues just living my life and not being hit by 200 pound people. The second you say back, I'm like, okay, cool. You can take all the time you need, buddy. That hurts. That's out. But no, the second you say soreness, it kind of ruins all that. But let's just take all the information that we've been given at this point from Shane Steichen, that it has been
Starting point is 00:05:29 soreness that Richardson's been dealing with. He's been held out all week. The next 48 hours will be paramount to see if he'll play. But if he doesn't play, man, with, again, back soreness, that's what we are being told right now. So I'm going off of that. It's a tough look, man. It really is a tough look because look at the guys that are going out there and playing on Sunday. Jalen Jones is going to play in this game with a throat injury, a throat injury. Alec Pierce has cleared concussion protocol. He's not super healthy going into the game. Quinn Nelson was screaming so loud I could hear it in my living room when he hurt his
Starting point is 00:06:03 ankle last game. He's likely to play this game. I know he's questionable, but he's likely to play. You got Michael Pittman Jr. fighting through his back injury all season long. Like, these guys are fighting through injuries to play in this game for what appears to be a chance at the playoffs. I don't think they're going to have a chance at the playoffs, but we shall see. And if you guys follow me on Blue Sky, you know I kind of changed my tone on this a little bit because in my brain, the Colts are eliminated from the playoffs. But even if you have a 1% chance of making the playoffs, this is a must win game in a playoff type game. And like soreness is not something that can keep you out of this game. So maybe
Starting point is 00:06:39 this is Steichen just being vague and saying like, oh, it's soreness or whatever when it's actually something more serious. And then I'll certainly take back a lot of what I'm saying here. But if it truly is something like soreness and this is a playoff caliber game and you're the starting quarterback of a team, you got to play like you simply have to play And it's not looking like he's going to. So, again, it just kind of adds to this dog pile of a season of Anthony Richardson's had in 2024 where, like, everything feels like a step back this season. And this is just part of it. Another injury, another, you know, questions of the S word against soft is going to come out. And then, you know, with the playoffs on the line, he might not be out there. So it's just a bad look for everyone involved, for the, you know, the organization and
Starting point is 00:07:32 for the player, if he does miss this game. Hopefully it's not too serious and he's good to go and he gets taken off the injury report going into Sunday and we all overreacted. But as of right now, optically, this is just another mess for the Colts optically. And hopefully again, I'm overreacted but as of right now optically this is just another mess for the Colts optically and hopefully again I'm overreacting but I don't I don't know if I am right now Jake well I don't know if it's overreacting because you're just going based on the information you've been given you're from the team you know Shane Steichen is the one that called it soreness but I agree regardless of whether they're in the hunt or not. I mean, Saturday, they could be eliminated because, you know, the Chargers and Broncos can, you know, knock them out, whatever. But especially if you still have something to play for, you know, you've got to be the guy that goes out there.
Starting point is 00:08:17 Like, sure, you may not be able to perform at the level they need and want you to as a quarterback who can do things with his legs. But this is the time of year where all those guys feel like they're dying right now. You know what I mean? Like, like you mentioned that long list of guys who've been playing through everything, but this point of the year, everyone is sore. Everyone feels terrible. And it's just, it's something you got to play through. So I totally agree. Yeah. I mean I'm not trying to make cross sport comparisons here but my favorite team in hockey the Washington Capitals Alexander Ovechkin is about to return from a broken fibula after like a month out like
Starting point is 00:08:54 and he's 40 years old I mean like again not trying to make comparisons across here but like in in sports you you have to play through some things I'm not saying be crazy and play through like torn ligaments or something like that and certainly take care of your body. But when the playoffs are on the line like this, and they kind of are, I guess, you got to get out there and play, man. Like even if you can't run to your full potential, maybe that's maybe the Colts are saying Richardson not 100% doesn't give us a better chance than Joe Flacco.
Starting point is 00:09:23 And then that's even more concerning in another way. Maybe that's another concern. Because if they don't feel comfortable putting Richardson out there if he can't run, and Joe Flacco they think is the better option, we saw what Flacco looked like last time he was out there. Flacco's not the better option, even on the roster, compared to Sam Ellinger, maybe. It's just not a winning formula. So it's just a bad look,
Starting point is 00:09:46 regardless of what it is, like no matter what this actually is, because again, the Colts don't tell us much, which is fine. Like that's, they don't have to tell us much. That's, it's completely what they want to do. But based off of what we've got, it's just a bad look and I hope he plays. And so we can just kind of push this aside, but it's just another like addition to the growing concerns with this whole project. And it could also be a thing where they just don't want to admit the fact that they feel like they could beat the Giants with whoever at quarterback. And you know, they're never going to say that if they, if they are confident they could beat the Giants regardless and they want
Starting point is 00:10:25 Anthony as healthy as possible for a potential must-win game in week 18 against the Jaguars I think we all get that it's just the information that's been shared so far is not great yeah yeah so here in a moment uh we're going to talk about know, the defensive side of all there's injuries there as well. What it could look like against a Giants offense that is very charitable this time of year at Christmas. But yeah, we're going to talk about that and final verdict at how we think this game is going to shake out. All right, it's the holidays. And I don't know about you guys, but there's a lot of good sporting events and going to events in general that you can kind of tie together with the holidays. Basketball is going on. I've got fond memories from attending Colts games when I was younger around this time of year as well.
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Starting point is 00:12:27 and use code LOCKEDONNFL for $20 off of your first purchase. Terms apply. Again, create an account and redeem code LOCKEDONNFL for $20 off. Download game time today. What time is it? Game time. All right, so defense, Zach. this one I'm pretty comfortable with uh the Giants do have some dudes on their offense but you know at the end of the day the quarterback situation is what it is I mean Malik neighbors that's a guy that scares you
Starting point is 00:12:59 but even he's limited by what he's surrounded by. You know, Tyrone Tracy, really good player. The Colts probably should have drafted him in hindsight. You know, he's from the southwest side of Indy. He went to Purdue. He was at their local pro day. They need more than Trace Herman and Tyler Goodson in the backfield behind Jonathan Taylor. And Tyrone Tracy's had a really good rookie year for a terrible offense. But the Giants, you know, their offensive line,
Starting point is 00:13:26 they're going to be without starting center John Michael Schmitz. Malik Nabors himself we talked about was questionable with a toe injury. Now the Colts might have some of their own issues. We mentioned Jalen Carlisle and EJ Speed are questionable. Of course, Speed was out last week with a knee injury, and Carlisle was the starting will linebacker in his place. But Carlize with his shoulder injury, you know, he's been let's see, he was limited. He got limited Thursday and full on Friday.
Starting point is 00:13:55 So he's certainly ramping up to perhaps be able to play. But obviously, if it's the Zyra Franklin and Grant Stewart show on Sunday, you can live with that. But I mean, you're losing a little athleticism there. But what do you think about this one? From the recon I've done about the Giants, there's just not a ton of threat there. There's a couple of good players, a couple of good skill position guys. But is there really anything there that makes you think, even this Colts defense, which has its lapses and being able to tackle and whatever their problems may be,
Starting point is 00:14:30 like is there anything this Giants offense does that has you saying, like, eh, they got to watch this? No. All right, next segment. Okay. Next, yeah, next segment. We're done. No, being honest, though, like this Giants team is just in a horrendous spot.
Starting point is 00:14:45 I mean, it is just a terrible, terrible football team. There's a reason why they're sitting at number one right now in draft order. Like two and 13. Yeah, two and 13. The Colts have more wins at MetLife Stadium this season than the Giants do. Shout out to Chappie for putting that one out there the other day. But yeah, I mean, this Giants team is a mess. I mean, they released their starting quarterback midway through the season.
Starting point is 00:15:10 Since then, it has just been this Rolodex of trash at quarterback with Drew Locke having his struggles. I mean, Locke's probably their best option at this point, and that's not much. You know, last week had two pick sixes in that game against the Falcons. The Giants' defense actually played kind of well in that game, but they couldn't get the win because Drew Locke was giving the ball to the other team. Their other options have been Tommy DeVito and Tim Boyle.
Starting point is 00:15:37 So who knows if we see one of those guys out there on Sunday. Hey, they saw Tim Boyle with the Dolphins. That's the situation the Giants' you know yeah that's that's the situation the giants qb room is in is the colts can face tim boyle for two different teams right right so yeah i mean look malik neighbors i think is going to be a fantastic player in the league tyron tracy was good fine by them uh i would i want to say more positives but i don't have wanda robinson i think is a fine slot receiver. Slayton can make some big plays.
Starting point is 00:16:08 But at the end of the day, when your quarterback is backup quality at best, these aren't even backup quality guys. Drew Locke's probably the only guy capable of being a backup in the NFL talent-wise on this roster. They're just in a bad place. So the Colts really got to dominate this game defensively. I will say one thing, you know, here's one thing positive for the Giants, or if you're, you know, putting money on the over in this game or something like that. The Colts defense this season has been a type of defense that will give you a shot to win against the Buffalo Bills and
Starting point is 00:16:40 the Detroit Lions and come out and play their best football against those teams. But they will also give teams like the Tennessee Titans and the Jacksonville Jaguars and the New England Patriots a chance to beat you as well. So we have seen this Colts defense play down to their competition quite a bit this season, but it would take a new level of playing down to their competition to blow this one, I think. It reminds me of a couple of years ago. I remember I was talking with Patricia during the crossover with the Colts and Giants and it was reverse situations a couple of years ago in 2022 where the Colts were the train wreck of a team
Starting point is 00:17:17 and the Giants were the fringe playoff team like potentially going to make it. I think they ended up making the playoffs, but kind of a similar boat as the Colts. And she was like, yeah, the Colts have some things on this roster that kind of could scare me. And maybe they could surprise the Giants.
Starting point is 00:17:31 And I said, look, Patricia, it's not going to happen. It's not going to like, this game will be lucky if it's within like 30 points. And I think it was like a 35 point difference in that game. I think similarly to this game, like regardless of who starts a quarterback for the Colts, Joe Flacco, Anthony Richardson, Sam Ellinger, the Colts just have way more talent. They're playing like a better team right now. And it like it really should not
Starting point is 00:17:55 be close. Like this is the one game this season where the Colts really need to blow out the opponent. I know they kind of had a blowout going last week before blowing it a little bit late, but this really is the game where regardless of who's starting at quarterback, this needs to be like a comfortable win for the Colts for you to feel any, anything about this roster, because the two teams that are going out there on Sunday, shouldn't even be comparable in talent. Like even if Richardson doesn't play, like it should be a healthy win for the Colts. I just don't see any way the Giants, the Giants just don't have anything going for them right now. They're just a bad football team. And I think Giants fans would agree right now.
Starting point is 00:18:32 Like we don't have any Giants fans in our comment section right now yelling at me for that. So I think we're good right now. No. And what you mentioned, that is like exactly how Patricia and my conversation went for the crossover. I asked her, I was like, is there anything the Colts should have circled in red? She's like, no, the only thing they do well is lose. And I was like, wow. All right.
Starting point is 00:18:51 So no, I mean, when you're around it, you know, like again, in 2022, when we were around that, we knew there was no chance going into those games. Like we knew the Colts weren't going to win any of those games, especially with Jeff Saturday at coach and whoever they were throwing out there at quarterback but like i almost want to say it's like just as bad for the or it might be worse for the giants right now i mean they have fewer wins than what the colts had in 2022 they and i i think they're just kind of almost helpless at this point they're very injured they've had some significant that their ir presence is big like they're some of their best players are are just unable to be out
Starting point is 00:19:33 there you know and it's they don't have the depth behind that to make things interesting and it's they're just kind of helpless and two weeks left the teams like this kind of just get in there early in the year like i look at like the patriots matchup for example you know drake may is an interesting creative player but you're like this team they're having some really bad moments on both sides of the ball and the colts kind of allowed drake may and the off the patriots offense to make things interesting there that doesn't exist in this matchup like the Giants are just bad and waiting to have their season ended like they're just getting through it that's not to say there's not guys out there playing hard and playing for
Starting point is 00:20:16 pride and everything but there's just at a certain point you you have hit your ceiling of what you can do your depth is compromised like there's just a talent discrepancy now yeah and maybe we'll eat our words on sunday maybe the giants come out here and punch the colts in the mouth i mean certainly i would be hilarious i think i wouldn't be shocked because this colts team again has played down to competition this season in a lot of ways so it wouldn't shock me but i would i it would shock, it would shock me. It would shock me. I'm not trying to talk smack on the giants here, but like they have been a, they're just a bad football team, like a really bad football team.
Starting point is 00:20:52 And the Colts should not play with their food here. It should be a comfortable win for the Colts on Sunday. Well, so I shared this in the media room earlier. There is some precedence here for Colts letdowns on weekends of my daughter's birthdays. The first birthday party we ever had for was the 33-point Viking swing. Her birthday party is this weekend, guys. The Giants, this could get ugly. There is precedence for it.
Starting point is 00:21:19 Keep an eye out. If something bad happens, we know that her birthday is a curse on the Colts. So I'm just throwing it out there. It could happen. You know, one thing I'll say before we have to get to our final segment is if they do lose this weekend with your daughter's birthday being the curse, schedule her birthday for the week of at Jacksonville next year. Like, I don't care if it has to be way too early or way too late, like on the same week of your birthday at the end of December anyway.
Starting point is 00:21:47 September, the weather's better. Like, I'm here for it. Yeah. So, yeah, coming up, guys, we are going to give our final thoughts on this game. And we kind of went through them there, but we'll wrap them up in a nice, neat little bow here coming up in just a second. All right. Locked on Colts every day as we are back talking everything Colts and Giants, the game that you guys desperately want to see this weekend.
Starting point is 00:22:14 I mean, everyone's going to be tuning in. It might be Joe Flacco versus Drew Locke, which we all know is a very, very exciting thing for everyone. But Jake, I know we kind of just joked about in the last segment, but what are your thoughts on this game? And do you think, I mean, outside of the Colts playing down to their competition, do we think that there is any way that the Giants upset the Colts in this one? I really don't think so. Like, I think it would have to take a complete and utter just no show from the Colts like the type of stuff we
Starting point is 00:22:46 saw from them in 2022 that type of showing has been much few you know few and further between under Shane Steichen it's happened a time or two but not against this level of opponent so even if the Colts had a terrible game, you could see them win a 6-3 matchup like Seahawks-Bears or something. But no, even if it's ugly like the Panthers game last year where all the points came from Kenny Moore pick sixes, I just don't see it happening. The Colts aren't a really good team by any means whatsoever but they have much more talent and at the end of the day talent wins out when it's two rough teams you know yeah my overall thoughts are like because I was thinking like maybe if like Flacco starts and you have that
Starting point is 00:23:39 disaster type performance that he gave against the Bills but that was a game against one of the best teams in football in the Bills and they lost by 10 in that game when flacco had like some of the most horrendous interceptions thrown because the colts defense made some plays because flacco was still able to move the ball a little bit so i i just don't see a way where the colts are completely unable to move the ball even if flacco has a couple turnovers and he's the starter and, you know, presuming he's the starter, you know, even if he does have some turnovers, like he'll still be able to move the ball a little bit. And the Colts defense, I think we'll be able to get some turnovers this weekend as well. So yeah, if Richardson starts, I mean, Richardson has too much of a high floor for what he does on offense. I mean, we've seen
Starting point is 00:24:21 like outside of the Lions game where every receiver forgot how to catch the ball, Richardson's games typically produce points regardless of how pretty it looks, you know, because of his rushing threat, because of the impact he has, because he doesn't take sacks and stuff like that. And then Flacco, his high floor is just the fact that even if he throws, if he commits turnovers,
Starting point is 00:24:42 he's still going to sling it. He doesn't just go into a shell. so he will create some plays down the field um so I just don't see really a way the Giants can surprise the Colts again maybe the Colts defense plays down to the competition like they have at times this season but even then it would be I mean Drew Locke would have to have that one game a year that he has where he just goes nuclear, which, I mean, he did it last year, I think, against the Seattle Seahawks, I want to say, when the Giants played the Seahawks, but we haven't seen and Drew Locke for 60 minutes on Sunday. But I do think, or 48 minutes on Sunday, getting my sports mixed up there. But I just, you know, it's just going to be one of those games, one of those late season games between two teams that probably are not going to,
Starting point is 00:25:39 well, one team probably not going to be in the playoffs and one team certainly not going to be in the playoffs. It's just going to be one of those kind of games on Sunday. Well, the great equalizer with all this is weather. And so the Colts practiced outside today and it was cold and rainy and just gross. And they did that because that's what the weather is supposed to be like at MetLife on Sunday. And usually when the weather is a factor, the better team, more talented team wins. I feel like it's rare for there to be a big upset when the weather sucks and the colts are on the heels of rushing for a franchise record
Starting point is 00:26:10 335 yards last week which leads me to believe they should run the ball capably well regardless of its anthony or flacco with jonathan taylor on sunday maybe the the fastest NFL game of the season this year, because of the weather, because of the volume of running, maybe now, obviously we know Jonathan Taylor has not been as effective when Joe Flacco was at quarterback and they're not going to run for 300 yards again,
Starting point is 00:26:39 but we know what this offensive line is capable of just a week ago. Yeah. So all things considered and the weather perhaps making it equal, the better team should win out. Yeah, I do want to see a good running game again. I want to see some Tyler Goodson snaps in there too to run the ball a little bit, especially if Flacco's out there just to see some more explosiveness in there. And also, I don't want to see Jonathan Taylor hit 30 carries in a kind of meaningless game, like a somewhat meaningless game late in the season or what potentially could be a meaningless
Starting point is 00:27:09 game I guess depending on what happens on Saturday um so yeah get some good sin carries and I guess some Trey Sermon carries too but um yeah this is a Giants defense that's missing Dexter Lawrence that's missing Bobby Okereke that's missing a lot of the middle of their defense just had, they just allowed a big game to be John Robinson last week as well with the Atlanta Falcons. Like just run the ball, get out of this game with a win and let's get one step closer to ending this season in Indianapolis. I think that's my thoughts right there on this game. I know you guys kind of feel similar when it comes to just this cold season in general, just waiting for it to end so we can get into some draft content, some free agent content, some, you know, firing content.
Starting point is 00:27:52 You guys are excited about that stuff. But, yeah, Colts and Giants. Do we have score predictions, Jake? Do you want to go through score predictions for this? I mean, I think I – what did I give you in your prediction article? I gave you like a pretty big – I think it was like 27 to 13 or something. Let's see. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:07 27 to 10. While I'm looking for yours, I'm going to say 23 to six. Yeah. Um, I, I, I gotta see a shutout from the cold Steve before I believe it. You said 27, 13. Yeah. Yeah. So I would say 23 to six.
Starting point is 00:28:23 Um, I think the, the Coltsts offense some facet of it will be effective whether it's running the ball or what have you um flacco likes josh downs i think downs had seven receptions in each of flacco starts yeah so between the run game between josh downs high volume i think they'll be able to move the sticks at least a little bit. I like 23 points. Part of that is probably going to come from a pick six, or the defense will get a turnover deep in Giants territory or something. But yeah, I think the offense and defense will play relatively complementary to bring them a decent win.
Starting point is 00:29:05 If the weather wasn't going to suck, I would maybe give them more points, but 23 is probably a decent number for a somewhat overwhelming performance. Yeah, let's just hope Anthony Richardson plays. Give me a clean game on offense, a dominant game on defense, and let's get out of this game with a win. That's all we have for today on Giants Colts game preview. We want to thank you guys for making Locked On Colts your first listen today and every day.
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