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Starting point is 00:01:03 Jake Arthur and Zach Hicks coming to you live today in the evening and live because as we know, if Zach and I are doing something, news will break. So we figured we might as well be live here with you guys and maybe you can tell us if something starts popping off Colts related while we're in here. I got my trusty phone, so you'll hear a little bit of buzzing, I'm sure. But we got some more Colts news today. So they continue to invest in their own very heavily. Kenny Moore and Rigoberto Sanchez were brought back today, and they're finally on the board with someone from the outside. That's right. They grabbed Raekwon Davis, defensive tackle from the Miami Dolphins on paper so far what's

Starting point is 00:01:46 been reported a pretty healthy deal for him but overall that's someone else from the outside they're starting to make moves and it's everyone wants it to happen sooner but let's be honest we're not even out of the the legal tampering period yet so Col. So Colts are doing a little something here. So Zach, let's talk about it. Kenny Moore, that was, he was probably in our top three of guys they had to bring back. And so they've done it.

Starting point is 00:02:13 And there's really only like one guy left at this point, Julian Blackman, who was a, you know, must re-sign that they haven't yet. So, so far so good. Yeah. And honestly, I don't even know if i'd put julian blackman in the same tier as kenny moore the second was as not the same but no no it's like just below it for sure but uh julian blackman i think you know if he ends up leaving

Starting point is 00:02:35 and they end up finding another veteran safety that's more excusable than if kenny were to leave and they had to find a new nickel corner because I think the one thing that's kind of not talked about enough when it comes to the Colts free agent signings, you know, a lot of their in-house guys they brought in is imagine they lost Grover Stewart. Imagine they lost Michael Pittman Jr. Imagine they lost Kenny Moore the second, right? You'd have to replace those three guys and all the snaps that they had on your team. And I know a lot of people want to say, oh, look, we didn't make the playoffs last year. Therefore, nobody should come back and we should just, you know, get new players. But the thing is, if Kenny and Grover and Pittman Jr. all left this offseason, Pittman would have been the highest receiver on the market, highest paid receiver on

Starting point is 00:03:17 the market. Grover would have been one of the higher paid one techs on the market. Kenny would have been the highest paid slot corner on the market. So it's like, look, these guys were going to get paid. They're going to be the best options available in free agency. So getting these guys back, I think was paramount. Uh, especially again, Kenny and Grover. I mean, what would this defense look like without those two guys in there? Uh, so getting those guys back was big. Uh, Kenny, I know, you know, you guys have to keep in mind with the, with the agent tweets that are going out there. Agents are sending the numbers to the Schefters and the Rappaport's of the world. So when you're seeing three years, 30 million highest paid slot corner in NFL history, the real contract is going to be something like three years, like 20 million, you know, or two years, like 15 million.

Starting point is 00:04:02 If you actually look at the guaranteed money and stuff like that. So, you know, it's not exactly the way that the contracts are built out. We're going to talk about with Raekwon Davis as well. I saw two years, the 14 million. There's no chance it's two years, 14 million. It's going to be more like two years, like six or 7 million when it comes to the guarantees. But no, I love them. I love the move to bring back Kenny Moore. Again, you weren't going to find a better option on the market I mean honestly the only way you really could have replaced him is if you spent like a first round pick on like Cooper Dijon so getting Kenny back I think makes a lot of sense big time playmaker had a really good year last year and

Starting point is 00:04:38 did a lot of good things so yeah I'm glad to have Kenny back you guys know I'm a huge Kenny Moore fan so having him back in the fold is a great thing here. Yeah, and I think we still are in the same boat where they still need to add someone else. They just needed to make sure Kenny was still on board. But no, this is huge. I mean, twice in a row now they've made him, at least again on paper, the highest paid nickel

Starting point is 00:05:02 with his last two contracts. So I mean, that's a guy who very much values loyalty you know, at least again on paper, the highest paid nickel with his last two contracts. So, I mean, that's a guy who very much values loyalty and stability and they've, so they've done right by him. And, you know, just this time last year, we didn't even know if, if Kenny was going to be on the team. Uh, so this was really good. He kind of had a career Renaissance in this last season and looks like himself again. Uh, again, he Again, there's some times where he just looks a step ahead of the competition, and they've got that player for at least a few more years now. Rigoberto Sanchez, I mean, I don't want to completely gloss over it, but I had to do a little bit of explanation on Twitter earlier. I know some people, you know, he was maybe a little

Starting point is 00:05:42 more inconsistent than we're used to last year, but still highest net average of his career. Zero touchbacks was the only punter in the NFL to do that. And I've always mentioned he is a punter that's not like a power punter. He's part of a team. He works very well with his gunners. So not having Ashton Doolin and Daniel Scott and guys like that last year. I mean, he hadn't worked with Daniel Scott yet, but he was going to factor into special teams pretty heavily.

Starting point is 00:06:09 Dallas Flowers, not having those guys affected things and affected the plans. And plus, how many guys, especially defensive backs, did we see that were hurt? That had to play a lot of defensive snaps rather than special teams. So hopefully he's going to have his crew back next year and that'll make him look even better. But I think it's a big deal to have him back. Yeah. I mean, look, I can't really go too much into, into punter stuff, but just having that punter position locked down, having a guy that's been around and the guy who had a solid season last year, look, it's better than Matt hack. It's better than Matt Hack. That's all I can really say there.

Starting point is 00:06:46 But one more guy we need to talk about before we get out of segment one here is the new outside free agent signing that is Raekwon Davis. Now look, this sign, this signing right here is an A plus to me purely for the fact

Starting point is 00:06:59 that I don't have to watch Taven Bryan play one tech anymore. Like I'm not saying Raekwon Davis is some perfect nose tackle. You know, I watched his film. He's not the athlete that Grover Stewart is. He's not as strong as Grover Stewart. He's not as flexible as Grover Stewart is by any means, but he's a big lengthy defensive tackle who can get off blocks, who can eat space. And that's all I need. That's all I need. All I need is a guy who can actually stand his ground and eat up blocks and occasionally shed the blocks. That's all I need. I don't need

Starting point is 00:07:30 anything else from my backup one tech, my backup nose tackle, backup defensive tackle. So the fact that I don't have to watch, you know, we had at a Tomey playing nose tackle at times last year against the Rams and in some other games, we had a tape and Brian and Eric Johnson being driven 30 yards off the ball every single time. So just getting Raekwon Davis, you know, a guy who can actually stand his ground there on, on the defensive line.

Starting point is 00:07:55 This is such a big signing because honestly the, the, the most frustrating thing in history last year, you know, when we're looking at that season, the biggest like, like hole in the side of the defense that was sinking that entire defensive ship was every time one of Grover or Buckner came off the field, the Colts run defense was going to be pitiful, pitiful.

Starting point is 00:08:13 It was going to be the worst run defensive football. So getting a guy like Raekwon Davis, who is not perfect, like Raekwon Davis is not some, some great, you know, needle mover by any means, but just getting a guy who can play football, who can go on the field and actually play football, this is a big upgrade. You know, again, I don't want to be hyperbolic here and just say like, oh my gosh, the Colts are going to win it all now, but they can actually take Grover and Buckner off the field on rundowns this year. That's a major win for me. They can actually take these guys off the field and give them breaks because last year, if they did it, you know, the whole defense was going to

Starting point is 00:08:48 corrode to nothing. Yeah, this is, this is a big one. It really is. And again, it's not significant in terms of like the production, but like you said, it gives you a capable body there. And, you know, that means with now at a tome you can play him where you want he can be a backup three tech hopefully takes that next step and gets there uh but now you're not going to have guys playing out of position necessarily and again he doesn't have to get penetration he just has to not get bullied and pushed around and at six seven 325 i'm fairly confident he'll be able to anchor in and play just fine. I mean, he lasted all four years in Miami,

Starting point is 00:09:27 so he's not a guy that's bounced around a ton already. So I'm going to give us a checkmark for this one because he was on our one text to watch for. I think we mentioned him a time or two since the offseason. So big one for the brand today, not going to lie. I'll be honest. I'd love to tell you guys how much cap space the Colts have right now. But last I looked was 36 million as of like four 30. And it still says that according to over the cap. So it's going to be

Starting point is 00:09:56 less than that. There's still, there's still some wiggle room. I'm sure they can work with that. Have you heard anything different? No, I mean, I don't think it's going to be as low as what people think because the way these deals are structured and once the Michael Pittman Jr. extension comes in, that'll that will give them more space because of the way extensions work. So I think they'll have somewhere between 25 to 30 million to work with still, which is more than enough, more than enough.

Starting point is 00:10:21 Yeah, I was kind of thinking it would be around that 30 mark or so because it hasn't been updated in a little bit. But there's still some stuff to play with there. So coming up here in a minute, we're going to talk about maybe some bigger fish where there's still some rumors out there and whether or not it's possible and basically what it says about the Colts and their relationship to these players. Say goodbye to busted brackets because FanDuel lets you bet on every game of the tournament. Whether you're betting on a big upset or a one seed,

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Starting point is 00:11:36 You know, rumor has it that's still something that they're looking into. But, you know, Stephen Holder from ESPN even put out there that the Colts had been in talks with Daniil Hunter four-time pro bowler from the from the Vikings very very interesting I didn't know they were they were going for that big of a swing at a position where they didn't really need a player of that impact I know we mentioned him I think last week on one of the shows but that was like kind of a far out thing something they could could do, but wouldn't likely do. He wound up landing with the, uh, the Texans. That's a projected two years, 49 million, uh, or 48 million guaranteed. Uh, and then a really interesting one. This one was, uh, from Benjamin Albright, who does, he does get stuff correct with the Colts more often than not.

Starting point is 00:12:23 Uh, but his guess for where Justin Fields might land, he said a couple times that the Colts and Eagles were possibilities for Justin Fields, it being a good situation for Fields to come to Indy and back up Anthony Richardson and learn from Shane Steichen. So I know that's a lot I just threw at you, Zach, but give me the rundown. What are you feeling on all these? Yeah, let's start with the Neil Hunter because that was the fun one. That was the fun one where when, I mean, look, we love Stephen Holder. I mean, I'm not, this is not me throwing anything at him by any means, but when he tweeted that, I was like, oh man, you can't throw this to them.

Starting point is 00:12:58 Here we go. You can't throw them this kind of bone, Stephen, because you know the Colts are not going to sign them, and then it's going to be just, you know, helter skelter when it comes to Colts Twitter the rest of the day, and that's kind of what happened. I mean, look, Daniel Hunter was always likely going to go to Houston. He's from Houston. Houston has a ton of cap space. They wanted to make that big splash. Even if the Colts were going to match that offer, Hunter was still going to take the Houston deal because of that caps or because of that being his hometown team.

Starting point is 00:13:28 You know, if all things are even, he wanted to go to Houston. So I didn't really see as much of a possibility, especially because the Colts were a little bit lower on cap space and the Texans as well. The Texans could have gone over them if they needed to. So yeah,

Starting point is 00:13:43 I never really saw the Colts as really much of an option for deal Hunter. I'm sure they did call and just check in on the price, but I don't know how serious it got, but I mean, look two years, 48 million guaranteed. That's just not a deal that Chris Ballard typically gives out. You know,

Starting point is 00:13:57 he doesn't give out fully guaranteed deals. He doesn't give a lot of backloaded type deals, which we might see happen there. So yeah, it just wasn't something that was going to happen for the Colts. And look, if we're looking at where this Colts team needs to improve, a Daniel Hunter would be great. Daniel Hunter is a really good player.

Starting point is 00:14:12 But a guy who, what, is 29 years old, edge rusher, two-year deal is not too bad. But it's just you have other guys on the roster who are good edge rushers. They're not as good as Daniel Hunter, but you have a good edge rush right now. Like it's not this major, major thing that needs to happen and throwing 20 plus million dollars a year at that position when you already have capable guys. I don't know.

Starting point is 00:14:34 Like I get it. I get it. I get wanting that star player, but you know, at the end of the day, he was going to pick Houston almost regardless. So again, I don't know why.

Starting point is 00:14:42 I mean, I guess I know why Stephen Holder put it out there. Cause it is something that happened, but it's like, look, it wasn't going to actually happen. You know, the Colts, Colts weren't going to sign him. Now the more realistic option, again, still remains trading for cornerback LeJarius Sneed. We haven't had too many more updates regarding that when it comes to the Chiefs and the Colts talking. Obviously the Chiefs are going to take this as far as they can because look, at the end of the day, the Chiefs and the Colts talking. Obviously, the Chiefs are going to take this as far as they can because, look, at the end of the day, the Chiefs can go super, super far with this and still get a good return. They can go until a team gets desperate or misses out on other corners and try

Starting point is 00:15:15 to get as much return as possible. But I do think eventually the Chiefs are going to have to realize that they're not going to get much more than the equivalent of a middle second round pick. I'm not saying that the Colts are offering 46 straight up for them, but I don't think it's going to be anything more than a third and a fourth or pick 46. They're not going to get a first rounder for LeJarrius Sneed. Even if that's what they're holding out for, they're not going to get that for LeJarrius Sneed. They're starting to see their suitors, like the Detroit Lions were a team that was, was really interested in the Jerry's need. And they're really in those talks.

Starting point is 00:15:49 But they just signed two corners already in free agency. So they're going to be, or they, they traded for one. They signed another one. So yeah, I do think the Jerry's needs still gets moved. I know this person mentioned here that my home's restructures contract creating 22 million in space. They need to do that to be cap compliant in the first place, but also they have other moves they're going to make.

Starting point is 00:16:09 So that, that $22 million in space was not really necessarily, Oh, Jerry Sneed is staying in Kansas city. I think I do think Sneed eventually does get moved. And I do think the Colts are going to be in that until the end. I just don't know how it's going to, to end up there, but yeah, I do think the Colts are going to be in that until the end. I just don't know how it's going to end up there. But yeah, I do think the Colts are going to be in it. I do think eventually he's going to get moved for the equivalence of a middle second round pick.

Starting point is 00:16:31 We just don't have too many updates right now because there's no rush on the Chiefs side. There's no rush on the Chiefs side at this moment to get that deal done. They can hold out as long as they want. For the last thing you mentioned there, though, Justin Fields to Indy as the backup. Now, I believe he's going to be making $6 million this year because he's still on that rookie contract. Higher up in the first round is around $6 million is what he's going to be making. I'm intrigued by it. I don't really care too much for a backup quarterback. I mean, I know it came

Starting point is 00:17:03 big time last year with Gardner Minshew, but I don't know. I don't know if I would trade anything significant. I think that's what the Bears are holding out for. I don't know why the Colts would trade something significant, but look, if they're just trying to dump him for free for a day three pick swap or something, sure. I will gladly take Justin Fields at that, but if it's anything more, like if they want a third round pick for him that that doesn't intrigue me at all i'd rather just go get a tyler huntley or draft a guy on day three or something like that on a cheaper contract uh because look at the end of the day i kind of

Starting point is 00:17:34 subscribe to the bill polian type of way or the not the bill pulling the the tom moore type of way with backup quarterback where it's like look if our guy's out we're kind of screwed anyway so it's like, look, if our guy's out, we're kind of screwed anyway. That's not what he said. You know, it kind of is like that. But yeah, you know, it's, I don't know. I think Justin Fields would make sense if the Bears were just trying to dump him. But if they actually want a real return, I don't think the Colts make sense as a trade partner, if that makes sense there.

Starting point is 00:18:02 Yeah, I could see the Colts in chicago being a universe apart and asking price because i don't i think the colts would you know probably like a fourth round or max like a conditional third or something but i'm sure chicago is like look we're only getting rid of this guy because caleb william Williams is right here and they probably want, you know, something early. And I, I, it just seems unlikely to me because I just don't see a common ground there of, of asking price. If you're the bears, if you're the bears, just hold him until the draft draft, Caleb Williams, start Caleb Williams. And then when we have that inevitable quarterback injury in week one or week two, trade him.

Starting point is 00:18:47 Then that's when you're going to get more of a return than what you're going to get right now when nobody wants them and everybody has their quarterback. So yeah, I don't think the Colts are going to realistically get Justin Fields. I love the thought of it. It sounds fun, like really fun if they're just giving him away, but I don't think they're just going to give him away. Just wait until again, there's going to be inevitable quarterback injury in week one or week

Starting point is 00:19:08 two next year just trade them then and you might get a day two pick out of it that's where i'm at i do think it sounds fun because i think they could run the hell out of him and i i think they could do some nice things passing at least downfield maybe i he's obviously not a consistent passer but again, you have faith in a guy like Shane Steichen to get the most out of someone, but yeah, those are, those are things that are probably not going to happen, but they're nice to think about. I mean, the Snead thing could, that's the, that's the most likely of all that. But then we're going to finish things out here in a moment with who's still out there. What do we want to see the Colts do and who makes the most sense still?

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Starting point is 00:21:04 No, no, no. I'm proud of them tonight. These guys are doing great there. I mean, look, I get being frustrated, frustrated. Like there are people in there who are frustrated. I totally get it. It's tough seeing your division rival who just beat you to make the playoffs sign a big fish like to Neil Hunter. So I totally get being frustrated. But look, you guys are being nice tonight. I really like that. We're looking at the next wave of free agents. I mean, again, free agency hasn't even officially started yet. The new league year kicks off tomorrow at 4 p.m. Eastern time.

Starting point is 00:21:36 And that's when these deals can officially be agreed upon and signed. And look, if you're looking at the two things that the Colts need the most right now, safety and cornerback, there's still a lot of names out there that make sense for the Colts and make the Colts a better team. So I don't think we need to be all doom and gloomy here about free agency when, again, we're technically not even one day into free agency because it starts tomorrow at 4 p.m. And there's still a lot of guys out there. I mean, I have the safety list and the cornerback list right in front of me here, Jake. All these guys would be improvements or just interesting adds to the Colts. And they're still out there. So I'm not, you know, I'm not at the point where I'm standing at the edge of the, you know, on the ledge and screaming, help me, Ballard.

Starting point is 00:22:16 You know, I'm not there yet. I'm not there yet. There are still a lot of guys out there who could help this team. And I like some of the names I see. Oh, yeah. The shopping list is still real healthy looking like there's not been a lot of guys that have come off the board where you, where you say, Oh, this diminishes the whole thing. I mean, just safety,

Starting point is 00:22:34 whether you want free or strong, you know, Jamal Adams, Justin Simmons, Quandre Diggs, there's a ton of guys here in underrated guy like cam curl. And Oh yeah. The guy we already know Julian Blackman. At this point, I think a lot of us want julian blackman back but it almost seems like a consolation prize with how much is still out there like the safety market is pretty crazy uh i mean i know everyone wanted chen uh he went shoot where did he go washington think of it washington yeah so chen is off the board now which is, but he was just a small part of a very deep class of safeties cornerback. I know I saw, I saw people, a couple of people

Starting point is 00:23:13 clamoring for Stephon Gilmore to come back. Wouldn't hate it. I'll be honest. I don't think it happens, but Steven Nelson makes a ton of sense. That's a guy that can move around. I know you want to get your socks rocked off with rocky sin okay that's a little that's a little much there jake no i i feel like it's been a couple episodes since i've thrown anything out there so you're welcome everybody kendall fuller is probably another one as well but no there's there's still plenty of guys out there yeah yeah and i mean when i'm looking at safety, I mean, look, again, you can go strong safety. You can go with a guy like Jamal Adams.

Starting point is 00:23:48 Like I know he's a little bit of a head case and maybe a little bit too chronically online. As a member of the media, I'd super rather not. Yeah, I'd rather not go Jamal Adams, especially as someone who tweets too much during football games. I feel like I'd be attacked. But you could go with his former running mate and quadrate digs a very, very good player. You could go Justin Simmons.

Starting point is 00:24:10 You want more of a free safety over the top. And that's your top name out there right now. Cam curl, I think would be a fantastic ad Jordan Fuller, Jordan Whitehead, both kind of versatile safeties that go back and forth. One of your favorite guys from draft from your times covering the draft, Ashton Davis,

Starting point is 00:24:27 I think would be a really good ad as well. Like there's a lot of good safeties out there. And I still think that there's time for the Colts to get in on the safety market. So, you know, like I get it. Look,

Starting point is 00:24:40 Xavier McKinney would have been a great ad, maybe not at 20 million a year or whatever. Yeah. That's a lot of coin for seller to cough up on a safety yeah he got close to 20 million a year kind of ended up being like the landon collins deal a couple years ago that he missed out on but uh when i'm looking at these safeties i still think there's a lot of guys who improve that secondary like again like like a guy like a cam curl or a quadrate digs or uh jordan whitehead drastically improves what the safety room looked like last year especially if you get back a guy like julian blackman on the same goes for

Starting point is 00:25:11 corner as well if you can get a kendall fuller in here you can get in and a kello witherspoon a stefan gilmore steven nelson rock you sin like those guys are upgrades over your daryl baker juniors and stuff or maybe even just take a shot on a Michael Davis and then draft someone like Quinn Yon Mitchell in round one. You have a lot of avenues to still improve this team. It's not all doom and gloom right now. So I think when you look at what the Colts' biggest needs are right now, it's corner and safety,

Starting point is 00:25:39 and then maybe adding another playmaker at wide receiver in the draft. There are still avenues to approach that. This is a really loaded wide receiver class when it comes to the draft. This is still a very good safety and cornerback free agency class. And those avenues are still there for the Colts. Now we can get doom and gloom when these avenues are taken away. But as of right now, these avenues are still there. Yeah, absolutely.

Starting point is 00:26:01 And I think it's smart to add capable players now. So when you get to the draft draft you haven't missed on anything and then if you add anything it's a cherry on top and you get a a younger perhaps better version of what you added uh in free agency and you you bought a little time to allow that player to to develop so i'm definitely good with that and there's also other free agents that are around, maybe not at positions of supreme need, but still would be nice to add and add, add pretty quality depth.

Starting point is 00:26:31 Still looking at quarterback. Of course, we are already kind of poo pooed the Justin Fields thing, but there's Tyler Huntley. Now that Tyrod Taylor four went out, he is not on the board anymore. How disappointed were you in that one? I was a little upset.

Starting point is 00:26:47 That was more of just like 10 year old Zach being upset though. I grew up watching Tyrod. I don't want to say it was a certainty, but I was like, it's almost like last year where you're like, okay, well obviously Gardner is going to come to the Colts whenever that, whenever free agency starts. It's kind of how I felt about Tyrod this year. And I was like, oh wait, what?

Starting point is 00:27:04 He's not. Okay whatever yeah i think i think a big thing and why we saw the colts kind of miss out on a lot of these free agents early is they're waiting on their in-house guys to get back on their offers because a lot of their cap space came down to what kind of offer their in-house guys are going to take and again like we said at the top of the show if you lose a kenny or lose a grover or lose a pitman junior i know they weren't going to lose pitman but you know if you're going to lose any of those guys it drastically changes on how you approach free agency and what positions you're going after so you have to get what those guys you have to get back with those guys first before you go outside and take other

Starting point is 00:27:38 free agents um and you know maybe they should have responded before the tampering period i don't like whatever like whatever you want to get upset about here, but. You know, they got what they wanted from those guys. Now they can properly turn their attention to outside free agents and, and look at, you know, quarterbacks like Tyler Huntley, who are still out there. Josh Dobbs, who's still out there. You can look at, you know, other waivers that you want to take. Like Isaiah Simmons is out there, a really athletic linebacker who can play some wheelbacker for you and do that Ronnie Harrison role there.

Starting point is 00:28:08 You can look at Quentin Jefferson. I mean, he's out there. It's kind of, you know, Quentin Jefferson's out there. I mean, that's crazy. You have a problem. You can get a really cool Colts reunion with Jerry Hughes or Mark Lewinsky. Like we can get all these guys back. We can have fun.

Starting point is 00:28:24 There's still time. Let's get weird with it. Yeah. You already made it weird, Jake here in this last segment anyway. So we're just going to keep going weird with it. Let's get, let's get Jerry Hughes back just for the fun of it.

Starting point is 00:28:35 Now I have to do at least one weird thing in every episode here on out comment and everybody, what's the weird thing I've got to do in each episode here on the way. God, no. All right, guys, I think that's all we said.'ve got to do in each episode from here on the way? Oh, God, no. All right, guys. I think that's all we have for today. I said we're trying to spice up the comments tonight. We're two old men who are up past our bedtime, guys.

Starting point is 00:28:53 So we appreciate you joining us for this late night stream here. All you guys on YouTube, who, again, in the comment section, you guys are being very cordial, very nice. It was a much better comment section than expected. Even the people who were against Ballard, I do appreciate appreciate your guys comments in there uh love all you everydayers and before we go i do want to remind you guys that the indie draft guides pre-orders are still open for 8.99 with code draft miss you get access to an essential piece of reading for colts fans both before and after the draft including 225 in-depth scouting reports, features, and much more.

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