Locked On Colts - Daily Podcast On The Indianapolis Colts - Indianapolis Colts: Bryce Young Could THRIVE in Shane Steichen's Passing Offense

Starting point is 00:00:00 The Colts already got arguably the top offensive head coaching candidate this cycle. Might they follow it up with the top quarterback in the draft? Let's get to it. You are Locked On Colts, your daily Indianapolis Colts podcast. Part of the Locked On Podcast 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. This episode is brought to you by FanDuel Sportsbook,

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Starting point is 00:01:23 Zach has been starting. On Monday, he put it out on horseshoehuddle.com, profiling each of these top four quarterbacks in the draft and how they match with Shane Steichen. Up first is the most often considered top quarterback in the draft, Bryce Young, and how he fits with Steichen and potentially the Colts. Will they need to trade up to get him? Will concern about his height, shuffle him down and make him available at number four? I don't know. We'll see though. But Zach will tell us if the Colts do get him, how exactly he fits with Steichen. So up first is his history in empty sets at Alabama, you know, the frequency at which he has used them and how he can kind of thrive in those in a quick passing environment. So Zach, why don't you go ahead?

Starting point is 00:02:12 I'll open the floor to you. Tell us about Bryce Young and these empty sets. Yeah. So I think a lot of people have this misconception about Shane Steichen's offense there with Philadelphia, where yes, it was very dependent on the run game and Jalen Hurts' ability to affect defenses with his rushing ability. But on top of that, you know, there still was an effective passing game built around it. Yes, having that plus one rusher in Jalen Hurts for teams to account for did open up the passing game,

Starting point is 00:02:41 but Shane Steichen was able to build a system that played to Jalen Hertz's strengths. And a large part of that system was something we call empty theory. So empty theory is something that my guy, Honest NFL on Twitter, if you guys are familiar with his work, phenomenal football mind, he used to work with the Philadelphia Eagles. He taught me all about empty theory the other day. So shout out to him. Great dude. Great resource. One day I will figure out his name. But The Honest NFL. And I'm going to put up a diagram that he shared with me.

Starting point is 00:03:10 If you guys are watching on Twitter, or sorry, watching on YouTube, you guys can pause the video and read about it all you want. This diagram right here is going to show all the different reads and ideas around Empty Theory when it comes to facing you know man coverage versus zone coverage pressure looks and stuff like that you could see so many different things with empty theory and where quarterbacks will attack defenses within empty theory one thing one reason why i bring up empty theory is not that shane steichen is this big proponent of empty theory and a guy who created empty theory but you know who is the biggest proponent of it?

Starting point is 00:03:47 Bill O'Brien. Bill O'Brien is by far and away the biggest proponent of this. I think he ran empty sets with Houston back in the day, like 20% of the time. Like 20% of all snaps with the Sean Watson and Houston Texans was out of empty personnel. And then he goes to Alabama with Bryce Young the last two seasons, and they're running empty personnel 15 to then he goes to Alabama with Bryce Young the last two seasons, and they're running empty personnel 15% to 20% of the time as well. So Bryce Young is very adept to empty personnel,

Starting point is 00:04:14 getting guys out in space and reading off of empty theory, which, again, I'll throw up this diagram right here. You can see where the hot check, where the hot reads are. You can see the benefits of being an empty and how it impacts blitz reading and just certain matchups in that way. Shane Steichen is not a guy who comes from a background in empty personnel or empty theory, but he saw with Jalen Hurts, a guy who can find success that way. So with Jalen Hurts, he built around a quick passing game that kind of revolved around empty sets and empty theory.

Starting point is 00:04:40 You know, they, uh, I think they ran empty sets, uh, 10% of the time last year. Now, some of them time last year now some of them they did rush out of those sets so it is a little bit skewed by the rushing attempts with Jalen Hurts but they did in like you know ingrain that into their offense this past year so when I look at Bryce Young's fit with Indianapolis Colts and with Shane Steichen I'm looking at what they did with empty sets there with Jalen Hurts because we actually have tangible evidence that Shane Steichen can buy into empty theory and buy into usage of heavy empty sets to help out his quarterback and that's something that Bryce Young is going to be coming into the NFL with extreme knowledge of

Starting point is 00:05:16 so we have that kind of history there with Shane Steichen and using these type of sets to benefit his quarterback and Bryce Young is someone who already benefits in that system. So when you look at those two, this is where I see a really good marriage between these two aspects. Bryce Young can operate really well out of these sets. Shane Steichen has a history of using these sets just recently. And I think that's going to bode really well for his time in Indy if he were to be the draft pick.

Starting point is 00:05:42 So I'm kind of curious thinking of that. So empty sets, obviously no backfield. It's just the quarterback, all the pass catchers split out wide or throughout the lineup. Do the Colts have the personnel for that right now, or will they need to work on that more? Adding a slot receiver, what do they need to do in order to kind of run that successfully? So here's the beauty with empty personnel. It's not defined by certain personnel sets. You know, it's not always going to be four receivers, one tight end. You know, you can have certain sets where, you know,

Starting point is 00:06:16 the Philadelphia Eagles does a lot with Shane Steichen. There were certain sets where they had Boston Scott and Gainwell, Kenneth Gainwell out as the wide receivers. They had A.J. Brown and Devontae Smith there in the slot. And then they had Dallas Goddard in tight on the line. And they would just attack those slots there with A.J. Brown running a quick slant or Devontae Smith running a quick out or something like that against linebackers or against safeties or against slot corners.

Starting point is 00:06:41 And just attacking those matchups with how they use the personnel groups. So for the Colts, it might not come down to, you know, we're going to put Zach Moss out wide and Jonathan Taylor out wide because who's going to be threatened by those guys. But it could be, you know, Michael Pittman Jr. and Paris Campbell on one side, Jelani Woods out wide on the other, Alec Pierce in the slot. You know, you could just be kind of creative with who you have. Yes, they probably need to add more weapons to this offense if you're going to be

Starting point is 00:07:07 creative like this but you can be creative by throwing you know again Jelani Woods uh Alec or Andrew Ogletree uh Kylan Granson you know these are guys that you could throw out there they have some tight ends they're athletes they have Alec Pierce they have Paris Campbell potentially if they bring him back they have um Michael Pittman Jr. who can play slot or outside. So it's not really kind of like, oh, we need four receivers for this. Oh, we need five receivers for this. It's how do we best utilize the weapons that we have and how do we get beneficial matchups?

Starting point is 00:07:37 And what we saw a lot with the Eagles last year and with Bryce Young in Alabama is they would put their best receiver in the slot and spread everything out wide and be like, hey, this third and four, you have AJ Brown versus a slot corner. There you go. Or AJ Brown versus a safety or Devonta Smith versus a linebacker. You know exactly where you're going with the ball. Even if that opponent is lining up to blitz six guys on you, you've because you don't have a running back to block. You have your hot read right there. You have your hot read down, down to a key because you know where your, where your to block, you have your hot read right there. You have your hot read down to a key because you know where your prime matchup is.

Starting point is 00:08:08 So that's what empty theory is in a nutshell. I'm not a huge proponent of it. Frank Reich wasn't a huge proponent of it. He liked to keep that running back back there, but we have a known tangible history of Shane Steichen using empty theory. We have Bryce Young obviously operating at a high level there at Alabama.

Starting point is 00:08:23 So if the Colts were to select Bryce Young, that's a really good marriage right there between those two. That makes me feel like Paris Campbell would be a must resign. Cause that seems like he would really eat in a scenario like that. Cause the quickness over the middle on those quick, quick shots, that seems like a good one. And also not for nothing,

Starting point is 00:08:42 but you know, the empty sets and everything that kind ofends itself to the Drew Brees comparison that some people like to throw out there with Bryce Young. Right, right. Yeah, no, and it kind of goes back to a little bit of Shane Steichen's history, too, where I feel like a lot of Steichen got this from the Ken Wisenhunt days of his career where he was under Ken Wisenhunt. Ken Wisenhunt's entire philosophy was built around the run after catch.

Starting point is 00:09:03 You know, to spread everything out. It could be four receivers, five receivers, it could be in the gun, it could be under center, whatever. We're going to get as many run after catch opportunities as possible to let our playmakers make plays. And I think that's where Shane's second kind of adopted this empty theory type of thing with Philadelphia, where, you know, they worked in heavy screen game, heavy RPO game, heavy, you know, empty set game to where they could get the ball out in space because they want these guys to create after the catch so yeah there is kind of a history with shane steichen empty theory but he really picked up on it uh when he saw what jalen

Starting point is 00:09:33 hertz could do which shows the malleability of shane steichen obviously he will adjust to his quarterback but taking away the fact that he can adjust to his quarterback he won't have to adjust to bryce young because he already is doing this, you know. And this is why Shane Steichen got a head coaching job. He got the head coaching job for his work with Jalen Hurts. And if you're looking at the passing game that Jalen Hurts is coming from, it best fits Bryce Young, what Bryce Young was just doing in college. So pretty much everyone's universal biggest concern with Young is his size. He might be the size of a high school sophomore soaking wet.

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Starting point is 00:11:21 offense in Philly that we can't ignore that won't translate to Bryce Young. And that is the quarterback rushing element. You know, Bryce Young, or not Bryce Young, sorry, Jalen Hurts rushed the ball, I think like 175 times last year. Some of those were on, you know, QB scrambles and such, but I believe it was like 120 design QB runs, like by far and away the most in the league last year. Jalen Hurts was used as like a running back in a lot of situations. We saw in the Super Bowl, you know, seven QB sneaks,

Starting point is 00:11:49 a couple QB draws, you know, he did a lot of things as a rusher. So the reason why I wanted to throw this in here is Shane Steikens often still works with Bryce Young, despite not having that rushing element. It just, it does hurt, you know, it know it does hurt but Jake I wanted to just get your thought on this you know would you run Bryce Young at all with his size you know he's not a bad athlete it's just I don't I mean personally I would try to limit that as much as possible you know yeah I wouldn't draw up a bunch of design runs but there are but there are certain, there are certain carries I saw of his at Alabama that some of it was probably him, but I thought he was pretty good inside, you know, inside the five or 10, the opponent's five or 10 yard line. He's really quick and he's faster than the average

Starting point is 00:12:38 defender, you know, front seven defender. So he's able to get that separation and just get it going. So I wouldn't just drop a bunch of run plays for him no but like if you need four or five yards and you want to boot him to the outside or just do something with him to limit his exposure to big hits while still using his athleticism because I do think he's pretty fast and that he could turn a corner uh I think you can do it in that way but no I'm not sending him on qb sneaks all the time or i'm not putting him in the belly of the beast because if you're gonna make the investment in bryce young as a top 10 pick you have to be cognizant of the fact that he's undersized

Starting point is 00:13:18 and the biggest concern with players like that regardless of their muscle mass is always going to be injury so if you're going to make that investment like don't don't drive your brand new car 90 miles an hour all the time you know what i mean like right just have a smart idea of how to use them so there are certain ways to use his mobility without getting him hurt in the process right right and i completely agree with you and i'm glad that you went in the direction i thought you were going to go when i asked you that question i asked a question not knowing the answer i would fail law school but uh that's i agree with everything you just said you don't want to run him too much but i do think he has he gives you enough to where you know with outside zone rushes out of the gun you could occasionally flip in a

Starting point is 00:14:04 read option and get him on the edge and he could slide down for a gain of five or six just to keep the defense honest and keep that backside defensive end from crashing down so hard but I agree with you I don't want to run Bryce Young this is a guy who's going to be 5'9 5'10 185 pounds in the NFL no matter what he comes in at the combine he's gonna be like 185 pounds when the season starts it's just how how it's going to be. You know, I don't care what the combine says. It's going to be all water weight. So how do you mitigate that? How do you, how do you still let him work in Shane Steichen's offense when you don't have that rushing element? Well, Shane Steichen also used a lot of RPOs, you know, with Philly and contrary to popular belief, you don't have to be a mobile quarterback

Starting point is 00:14:42 to operate an RPO in fact RPO it literally means nothing if the quarterback can run or not for the success of an RPO so an RPO is a run pass option where you are either handing the ball off to that running back in front of you typically out of the gun because that's again this what Shane Steichen did they were 90% in shotgun last season so they were almost exclusively in shotgun last year and bryce young also was like exclusively in shotgun at alabama but so you're gonna you're gonna pretend like you're handing the ball off or you're going to hand the ball off that's your option that you're reading and then if you see those linebackers crash down too hard you're pulling

Starting point is 00:15:17 it out and hitting it over the middle or you're hitting an out route or hitting a quick screen it's all about what those offensive linemen are doing you know it doesn't really matter if the quarterback can run or not, because that's not what affects the RPO. The linebacker is going to bite when they see the offensive line moving like they're run blocking. Bryce Young was extremely proficient on RPOs at Alabama. They used it a lot. Like, they used it more than Philadelphia last year, and Philadelphia ran it on 20% of their offensive plays. So 20% of Philadelphia's offensive plays were RPO. You know, they did this a ton. And if you watch any Alabama game, you will see a ton of RPOs, again, probably even more than what Philly was doing. College stats are a little harder to find than the NFL ones. But if I had to put a number on it, 100%

Starting point is 00:16:02 would be more than what Philly was doing. Bryce Young is just super, super effective on these. He's got a really quick trigger. He's a really smart player. He knows when to read those linebackers and read the, what's the word I'm looking for? To read the conflict defender. That's what it's called, the conflict defender. You're reading that one defender

Starting point is 00:16:20 and attacking that empty spot behind them. Bryce Young is extremely proficient on it. So you can still have an effective passing game while not having that rushing ability because you have RPOs, because you have quick screens and quick wide receiver screens. Those can mitigate some of the yardage that you're losing on QB runs. That's what the Eagles did a lot last year too. A lot of quick screens, a lot of getting the ball out in space.

Starting point is 00:16:41 And then on top of that, again, you got those Ken Wisenhunt triangle reads and those quick passes over the middle that could attack different layers of a defense. And this is where I think Bryce Young's even more developed as a passer than what Jalen Hertz was there in Philly. You know, Bryce Young is more proficient and more effective over the middle of the field than Jalen Hertz was, especially on those high-low reads over the middle. So you will lose some in the rushing game. I'm not going to deny that. I'm not going to say Bryce Young can even come close to what Jalen Hurts gave the Eagles as a runner, but you're going to gain a lot more as a passing game. And you're going to be able to

Starting point is 00:17:13 build off of what Shane Steakhan already started there in Philly. Again, heavy RPO game, heavy empty sets, heavy triangle reads, heavy wide receiver screens. These are things that were so dominant in that Philly scheme that Bryce Young is already doing at a very high level. So yes, again, you are losing that rushing element, but you're going to be able to pick up so much more in the passing game that Shane Stetkin already has set in motion from what he's bringing from Philly. So Young, if he lands an Indy, obviously won't be doing it all on his own. Just for my money, I thought with the more RPOs in 2021 when Jonathan Taylor was unbelievable, do you think that's something that is tailored better to his game? If you take Bryce Young and you implement more RPOs back into the offense like you were before,

Starting point is 00:18:02 is that something that's going to perhaps get Jonathan Taylor rolling again? Yeah. So here's the beauty of RPO passes and why they took the league by storm for years. I mean, Chris Collinsworth was calling everything an RPO. Every play action on Sunday Night Football, he was loving it because he was just obsessed with RPOs. Even when he was wrong on 90% of them, he was obsessed with it. And he was telling us all how everything was an RPO

Starting point is 00:18:25 because it was so hot right then. But with RPOs, you know, again, it's all about making conflict defenders think and guess. So if, say I'm a linebacker, right? And I have my keys and my reads and I'm reading, say if I'm an outside linebacker, I'm going to read one of the guards on every single play. So if I see a guard run blocking to start the snap,

Starting point is 00:18:43 to start a play, I'm going to shoot forward because I need need to stop that run I need to get to my gap before that lineman I need to stop it now say I'm the conflict defender to the offense and I'm flying forward and they're throwing the ball right over my head to where I was supposed to be if we were in coverage the next time they do that exact same play I'm gonna hesitate or I'm gonna stay in coverage and not attack up the middle. So this benefits Jonathan Taylor so much in so many ways, because if you have linebackers second guessing against any running back, it's going to lead to more yards and more, more yards out to carry and just more yards before contact. But Jonathan Taylor, if you're giving him

Starting point is 00:19:20 more space, which we saw last year, everything was so muddied for him. He could not have any space to move last year. If you are starting to make those linebackers second guess, if they should be dropping into coverage or if they should be tacking downhill, that's going to just give so much more yards to a guy like Jonathan Taylor. And again, I do think there are multiple quarterbacks in this draft that can operate an RPO heavy scheme. Bryce Young, I think is the best at it, but these are type of things that can operate an RPO heavy scheme. Bryce Young, I think, is the best at it. But these are type of things that can certainly open up things for Jonathan Taylor and lead to more success next year. So yeah, I think if they go to an RPO heavy scheme with a guy like Bryce Young, it's just going to lead to so much more success for Jonathan Taylor.

Starting point is 00:19:57 I think that's music to a lot of people's ears. So coming up in a second, we'll just check out why Bryce Young might actually be the best fit for Steichen moving forward. All right, Zach. So we know who Bryce Young is by this point. You know, the tape is out there. We know some of his strengths. Obviously, he can't change his size, but he does have, you know, the best quarterback coaching chameleon that was available in this cycle. Now with the Colts, is that the perfect matchup? Yeah, look, at the end of the day, and I go back to what Ben Solak told us, because it was just it was something that really rang with me. Again, we're talking about a guy in Shane Steichen who is that chameleon, a guy who can coach a guy like Phillip Rivers, who is an immobile pocket passer with not the strongest arm and get good production out of him.

Starting point is 00:20:51 And then he can go to Justin Herbert and incorporate more of a downfield attack and get great production out of him in that rookie season. And then go to Jalen Hurts and incorporate a rushing attack on top of that. You know, it's a guy who can call a lot of different things. But at the end of the day, Shane Steichen was hired for what he did in Philly. What he did in Philly is his magnum opus. You know, that's his masterpiece. That is his whatever, whatever Shakespeare's, is Shakespeare's Hamlet. You know, whatever one of you think is Shakespeare's best. That is what Shane Steichen is known for, you know, what he did in Philly. And if you're looking at all these quarterbacks in this class, yes, you can make the argument that Anthony Richardson

Starting point is 00:21:29 adds the most plus one rushing attack that he got out of Jalen Hurts, so therefore Anthony Richardson would be the best fit. But when I look at that Philly passing game and I look at all the things they were doing with the quick screen game, with the RPO game, with empty sets, it's Bryce Young. Bryce Young best fits that Philly offense. Now, I'm not saying that, you know, that's the direct way that Shane Steichen's going to go in Indy.

Starting point is 00:21:53 He's not going to just recreate that Philly offense from scratch and go perfect one-to-one. But I think if you're looking at the things that Shane Steichen's going to want to build off of his successes there in Philly that got him a head coaching job, Bryce Young is that guy in this class uh you know yes the size is concerning yes he's not going to have that rushing element but he's such an advanced passer such a smart passer such an anticipatory passer that he can operate that scheme at such a high level that I think passing wise even higher than what Jalen Hurts was doing last season.

Starting point is 00:22:30 So what we know about a Shane Steichen quarterback and why Young might be a fit. So Steichen said at his introductory press conference that his ideal quarterback is accurate. He makes good decisions. He has the ability to create and he's got to be obsessed with his craft. That's all Bryce Young. Except he's got the body of a middle schooler. Exactly. Hey, at least I said sophomore before. So, no, the thing, a lot of us until the Colts hired Steichen said,

Starting point is 00:22:57 there's probably no way Bryce Young comes here because he couldn't be further from Chris Ballard's size profile, especially at quarterback. He's dealt with the Andrew Luck injuries before. That's pretty risky. But Chris Ballard has let his head coaches take the reins at quarterback before. And so how much influence will Steichen have? I mean, he's the new guy in town, but he's the guy that's going to have to use him. He's an offensive-minded head coach.

Starting point is 00:23:25 He'll be calling the plays. It would be wise to let him have a very heavy influence in his quarterback. So who is he going to like? The deciding factor I've mentioned is going to be stuff we don't hear about probably. It's going to be how they do with the X's and O's, what their work ethic is like. It's just going to be the stuff that these teams find out from doing years of research, talking to their high school coaches and teammates and every trainer and coach they've been around, basically. So that's going to be a tough one. But the obsession with their craft thing is probably going to be a pretty, play a pretty heavy hand in who they pick.

Starting point is 00:24:08 Yeah, it's actually fascinating. Just for me to pull the whole curtain back here and step away from the Bryce Young conversation and just look at this overall quarterback class for the Colts or for everyone in general, it's a fascinating quarterback class. It really is because you look at these guys, there's no like, there's no Zach Wilson. You know, I know a lot of people will say Will Levis is like Zach Wilson, but if you look at Zach Wilson, he's a guy where we kind of saw a lot of character things kind of come up in the media, a lot of things about yada, yada, yada.

Starting point is 00:24:36 I'm not saying they were all true, but there was a lot of reason to be really skeptical about him. But if you're looking for things to check off the field with each of these quarterbacks, Bryce Young, by all accounts phenomenal person who's done a lot of community work and been a team captain there on a on a winning program CJ Stroud we all know his story with with his dad and everything which ESPN is going to go crazy about on draft night but you know the background that he comes from and and the things he's achieved in his life just phenomenal Will Levis who's done hundreds of thousands of hours of community service uh team captain apparently is going to kill it on the

Starting point is 00:25:08 whiteboards and stuff like that Anthony Richardson was like a volunteer fireman and stuff like that and just a really quiet reserve kid who opened up as the season went on like it's such a fascinating class just off the field and then on the field you have these very talented yet flawed quarterbacks and and then you got a team like these very talented yet flawed quarterbacks and and then you got a team like Indy where so many things are gonna have to mesh together with it you know Jim Ursae is probably gonna like the production of CJ Stroud or Bryce Young you know those are gonna be his guys production wise that he's gonna be pounding the table for and love what they can already bring Chris Ballard's typically an upside guy though you know will he want a Will Levis or

Starting point is 00:25:45 will he want an Anthony Richardson because he loves that upside and then you got the Shane Steichen element where you know Bryce Young probably fits his passing attack best Anthony Richardson best fits his rushing attack Will Levis could be the best of both worlds and you know CJ Stroud could remind him of of Philip Rivers you know like there's so many different elements to this and we're still so early in this process uh for you know like there's so many different elements to this and we're still so early in this process uh for you know actually deciding anything that I think it's going to be a really fascinating conversation that's why I wanted to do this series where I go quarterback by quarterback and talk about how Shane Steichen could build an offense around them you know I'm

Starting point is 00:26:18 not I'm not really going into it saying the the exclamatory things I said about Bryce Young in that article where I'm saying he's the perfect fit. It's more of all these guys can be the perfect fit with Shane Steichen. I'm just saying Bryce Young, if you look at that Philadelphia film last year, is the perfect fit. But as you guys will see as this series goes on, when I go into CJ Stroud, I could bring things from the Philip Rivers days, from the Justin Herbert days even, and say here's how Shane Steichen can make him the perfect fit for Will Levis I could look at the Justin Herbert stuff and say just do this again you know for Anthony Richardson I could look at all the QB runs this past season with Jalen Hurts and say do this again you know there's so many ways that these quarterbacks can fit Shane Steichen and fit the Colts that just adds to the intrigue of this draft

Starting point is 00:27:01 season so yeah I'm really excited about it you guys can tell by me going off the walls here and going crazy and getting away from that crazy chat from last night, obviously. But yeah, no, this quarterback class is fascinating to me and I'm really excited to keep talking about these guys because I really could see the Colts going with any of these four quarterbacks.

Starting point is 00:27:19 Yeah. The good news. I mean, if you guys thought the head coaching search and the talk about it took a lot, we still have two months until the draft. Oh, Lord. There's going to be a lot of quarterback chat. We'll eventually get to other positions, but the Colts are in a spot this offseason

Starting point is 00:27:36 to have to check off the two most important boxes in a football organization. So still quarterback time until it ain't baby. Yeah, it's 100 quarterback season and and just to leave off something with this podcast before we uh before we close it out again i'm not running bryce young absolutely not running bryce young uh high school sophomore middle school body whatever you want to call it i'm not running him but i think he's such an advanced passer that he could thrive in shane Steichen's passing attack so I'm on board with Bryce Young being the pick and obviously as the weeks go on here and I write more

Starting point is 00:28:10 of these articles you'll hear me say I'm on board with CJ Stroud being the pick I'm on board with Will Levis being the pick I'm on board with Anthony Richardson because I think all these guys can work but Bryce Young the reason why I think he can work is that Philly passing game last season was built around what Bryce Young has already been doing in college. And I think that's going to be a great fit for him. If Bryce Young is the pick. Yep. No qualms here. That is it for us. Everyone will be back tomorrow to bring you the latest on Steichen, his new staff, the scuttlebutt on rumors on who's going to join that. And then what, what else the Colts might do this off season? Yeah.

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