Locked On Colts - Daily Podcast On The Indianapolis Colts - Indianapolis Colts: Shaquille Leonard Injury Update, Offensive Struggles Continue

Episode Date: August 9, 2022

Indianapolis Colts linebacker Shaquille Leonard is expected back at some point during the 2022 season based on a recent report. On Day 8 of training camp, more drops and miscues on routes led to Matt Ryan's first two interceptions of the summer in live drills. The defense continues to capitalize on the offense's mistakes, and the linemen are racking up the sacks.Listen as Jake goes over his news and notes from Day 8 of #ColtsCamp. Also, check out the full notebook below from Horseshoe Huddle.Colts Training Camp Journal, Day 8: Jonathan Taylor Saves Offense's Day: https://www.si.com/nfl/colts/news/colts-training-camp-journal-day-8-jonathan-taylor-saves-offenses-dayFind and follow Locked On Colts on your favorite podcast platforms:📺YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLdpxJspi1hMh5HL7ExpWOQ🎧 Apple https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/id1151621306🎧 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6meP450baAtjX4rTENZ5ij🎧 Audacy https://www.audacy.com/podcasts/locked-on-colts-daily-podcast-on-the-indianapolis-colts-21701🎧 Google https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vUFBZODk1ODUyODkyNQ🎧 Megaphone https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/lockedoncoltsFollow Jake and Zach's written work on HorseshoeHuddle.com, and give them a follow on Twitter @JakeArthurNFL, @ZachHicks2, and @LockedOnColts!Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!DaveDownload the Dave app from the App store right now for an Extra Cash account and get up to 500 dollars instantly. For terms and conditions go to dave.com/legal. Instant transfer fees apply. Banking provided by Evolve. Member FDIC.Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you’ll get 15% off your next order.BetOnlineBetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After these last two days, the Colts offense needs a break, you guys. Luckily, when one side struggles, though, an opportunity pops up elsewhere. So we're going to talk to you all about that and much more on today's episode of Locked On Colts. 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. All right, Colts fans, thanks so much for tuning in and making us your number one listen of the day. This is your daily podcast covering your Indianapolis Colts, part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. I am Jake Arthur, joined as always by my partner, Zach Hicks, and we're going to go top to bottom Colts training camp from today.

Monday brought practice number eight. It was another padded affair in the hot, hot heat. I once again did not escape a sunburn despite wearing sunscreen. Yeah, it's rough out there, man. I'm telling you. But it was another day where you're going to give the W to the defensive side of the ball. And some people might think it's a little discouraging. I'm going to, I'm going to think of it as just a little momentary hiccup. But before we dive into all that, let's, let's get you caught up with all the injuries and newsy type stuff. So the biggest thing there was a report that just came out today from Cameron Wolf from NFL Network. They were out there watching practice Colts, all pro linebackbacker Shaq Leonard watched practice in street clothes. He is told, Cameron Wolf is told, that there is no set return timetable,

but they do expect him back at some point this year in the 17-game season. They need him, but they won't rush him. So that doesn't tell us a lot of newness from what we already knew, but it does make it seem like it's a longer timetable. Yeah. You know, we initially kind of thought, you know, he'd be back and would maybe get some training camp time. This makes it seem longer. Like maybe he'll even remain on pup to start the season.

What do you think about that? Yeah. I mean, it's very realistic. I mean, I think that's what Chris Ballard even said back in his press conference before training camp, he said, you know, Leonard's going to miss some time, you know, and that sometime could be into the season, just like that tweet says there, you know, tweet literally was quotes around the word sometime. So, you know, that could be six weeks in the regular season, stay on PUP, or it could be back by week one still.

We don't really know. That tweet does make it seem like he's going to miss some time in the regular season, but that's why you have that depth at linebacker. You know, we've been seeing a lot of Bobby O'Kerrick. Zyre Franklin's obviously getting a lot of runs with the ones. EJ Speed, the last couple of years, has started to get some more run on defense as well. well so you know i'm not too concerned uh honestly uh daris leonard or sorry shack leonard is a guy that is here for the long term you know they just gave him that huge contract he's an all

pro he's a guy that you're gonna have for not this year not next year but for many years after uh so the long-term health is obviously more important than him missing a couple games to start the season. So I think the Colts have some depth there, so I'm not too concerned. Yeah, they can afford Jacksonville-Houston. It would be great if he was back for Kansas City in week three. You need all hands on deck for a game like that. Hey, hey, hey.

They beat Kansas City without him a couple years ago. They don't need him. They don't need him. All they have to do is bank on Patrick Mahomes being hurt again. And the left tackle being out and Tyreek Hill being hurt. You know, that's all they need. Tyreek Hill's not there anymore. So there we go.

There we go. A lot of fans aren't ready to hear that, but that's okay. No, so some other guys that were out today, a trio defensive tackles, our man Curtis Brooks. Oh, boy. He got poked in the eye yesterday. And that sounds just so-so, but if you've ever seen a football player that's been poked in the eye, sometimes it can be gross. It might've been nasty. We don't know, but it was enough to keep him out on Monday. Chris Williams and Byron Cowher as well. Wide receiver to Michael Harris. Offensive lineman Dennis Kelly and Jason Spriggs.

So both of the swing tackle utility linemen veterans they signed recently. Running back Devontae Price. He's been out for a while. Safeties Will Redman and Armani Watts. Both of those guys had occasionally cycled in with the first unit. Linebacker Forrest Ryan, I believe this is third one in a row. Linebacker Brandon King, special teams ace. He did return today, though. So that was nice to see because the list just kind of keeps getting longer every day and not many guys are returning so far.

But they did finally get one guy back on the field. Paris Campbell, he started out the day. He was out there with some special team stuff, positional stuff, but when the team drills, you know, the seven-on-sevens and 11s started, he was not out there. He was replaced in the lineup today by Kiki QT, who looked pretty good. I think with Paris, it was he felt something in his hamstring, so they just out of caution just kept him out. Don't force it. You don't want to force it with a guy like Paris, it was, he felt something in his hamstring. So they just out of, out of caution, just kept them out. Don't,

don't force it. You don't want to force it with a guy like Paris, of course. Yep. Yeah. Training camp, honestly, is just not important enough to push it. So if you're, I mean, it might be the case with all these guys here. They just have little tweaks or like, like Curtis Brooks, he might've been perfectly fine, but after leaving practice early yesterday, you know, who cares? Miss it, miss a day, you know, make sure your body is right. Cause it's just at the end of the day, it's just training camp.

It's important, but it's not that important. So, you know, take the precautionary route and I'm okay with that. Yeah. And they've, they've got this first preseason game on Saturday. So it's not really uncommon either for them to hold some guys out in practice who they expect to get a lot of reps in the game. Right. If they're just dealing with something little,

they of course have that game in Buffalo this Saturday at 4 PM. So that's one thing we'll get to a lot of that later. Let's see. Yeah. So throughout the 11 on 11 drills today, they focused on first and second down low red zone, which is basically goal line stuff and then towards the end of practice was four minute and two minute drills

the offense i'm sure a lot of you guys have seen today the offense kind of sputtered again the quarterbacks really started out hot though in the one-on-ones uh they came out aggressive taking deep shots matt r Ryan had big gain. Alec Pierce, Naheem Hines had like a 40-yard touchdown. He burned Alex Myers. I think Doolin had a big one. Sam Ellinger, our boy, uncorked a deep one to Ethan Furnier. They were really going after it in one-on-ones. And then once they got into the 11-on-11s and stuff

and they got down to the goal line, it just totally killed the passing game for the day. Not great to see two days in a row. Yeah. And again, with the red zone, we've seen that the last couple of seasons with this offense, you know, whether it's a quarterback play or it's the guys around or just the play calling in general. You know, we have seen that kind of happen again, training camp. It's hard to put too much stock into it because everything is just so vanilla and just it's bland. It's really just seeing guys do their thing one-on-one and seeing who could win

and seeing if the defense is communicating on some quick things. Training camp is so hard to get a gauge on how this is really going to be. But, yeah, you know, you want to see success. You want to see some gelling here in training camp. So two straight days where the defense is getting the best of the offense or even more concerning, and I'm sure Matt Ryan brought it up yesterday and if he talked today the same way, the mental mistakes, you know, drops and running the wrong routes.

And I know you're going to talk about that here in a second, but that's the stuff that you don't want to see. You know, it's okay if, you know, physically a defensive back is outjumping you or he's pressing you or something like that. That's whatever. But having a bunch of drops consecutive days, having wrong routes or miscommunications, that's the stuff you want to clean up because this is training camp. It's obviously okay to make the mistakes in training camp, but you got to start cleaning that up a little bit. Yeah, and that was it. It wasn't necessarily that the defense was asserting themselves. It was mental mistakes. It wasn't necessarily that the defense was asserting

themselves. It was mental mistakes. It was the defense capitalizing on what the offense was doing. We saw, you know, Matt Ryan made it into practice number eight without any picks in the 11-on-11 drills. He had his first two today. The first one, it looked like I think Doolin ran kind of a deep post, but the pass was more of a flag or not flag route, but. Fly route, vertical route? Well, yeah, of course, the corner route. Yeah, okay. So Ryan was going more outside, Doolin went inside. We'll get to the defensive aspect of these interceptions later.

The second one couldn't really tell if it was a miscommunication. It just looked like he kind of overthrew Pittman and the defender just, you know, he had a couple steps beyond Pittman and ran under it. Not really sure if that was miscommunication or not, but ton of drops again today. And it's a lot of the same guys coming up and doing it. I'm not going to put too much on Doolin today because he had a couple good plays, but he easily had his roughest day today. I think he had at least three drops during the sevens and 11s. Granson is looking a little better.

That's good. He started to get more involved in the passing game, but it was just little rinky-dink stuff. It was just not meaningless catches, but they just didn't equate too much now he's starting to pick up chunk yardage you know he's getting those corner outs for 15 20 yards and it's looking a lot better now so that's good not that he's not dropping anything but he's starting to ascend a little bit as well yeah no i mean we talked about this for you know a couple weeks back when we did our roster battles podcast.

Kylan Granson should be the tight end too this year, just with the experience in the scheme, with his athleticism, with his ability to run those routes, and that he can kind of replace a lot of what Doyle did in the passing game in terms of those underneath safety blanket routes. The only thing is the hands,

you know, got to be more consistent with the pass catching, but he has all the ability in the world. So you got to see him stacking good days. And it sounds like despite the offensive struggles the last few days, he has been stacking those two days. So that's good for him. Yeah. So these guys are stacking good days. You guys are going to want to stack some snacks coming up here. Built bars guys. If you haven't tried the Bilt Bar Puffs yet, you are depriving yourself of one of life's greatest joys. Let me introduce you to your new favorite. Cookie dough chunk puffs have a light and chewy texture, real cookie dough chunks, and of course, they're covered in 100% real chocolate.

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and grab yourself a Built bar. Go to built.com and use the promo code locked 15 and get 15 off your order use promo lock 15 now zach okay so when one side of the ball falters that obviously means in a perfect world the the opposition is capitalizing on that and that's what the defense has done these last two days. I think we've all got high expectations for the defense, and they should be opportunistic when their opponent is giving them chances like this. And that's exactly what's happening.

You're going to love to hear that these defensive linemen continue to get after it. I counted sacks today for Quidipe. That's at least a couple in the last few days uh yannick and gawkway has become a regular i think i saw i think i saw two for him today right yeah yeah i think he had at least two yeah um ryman and prior even prior man prior's got his number in the one on ones though i'm telling you he's put him on the ground at least three times in these last i mean you saw the thing today uh yannick nagakwe said he weighs 232 and i think matt prior my prior might be like 320 like 330 like matt prior he's a big guy yeah like so i mean you know we're talking like 36 long arms or whatever but they're almost

100 pounds on them like it does not shock me that matt prior is beating him in the one-on-ones no prior prior physically and athletically is a very good counter for your in gawkway so that's good the colts have that and we saw that in their game last year um taekwon lewis had one dio another one peep the shirt guys yes dio the dio breakout is coming it's i've been i've been saying considering that they got next to nothing from him last year it was basically an on-field redshirt year right they're gonna get that jump from him anything he was gonna give them would be a plus but like he's gonna take that next step it's very hard for me to imagine him not giving them something pretty decent this year yeah yeah I don't know if

no it's it's a lot like um you know in college football how you can play four games before you redshirt yeah it was kind of like that you know he played the four games he kind of just got his feet wet but then he still had the redshirt season so this is like his rookie year and you know when we talked to Eddie a couple weeks ago I mean he I know he was texting me I don't know if we brought this up on the show but he was texting me saying he was with guys like I think he was with Penny Clark and another NFL guy. And they were texting him throughout the week being like, who is this kid? Like this kid is like this kid has it, you know, because, again, it's just it's just a lot of what we saw during the draft cycle.

It's like he's just a ferocious pass rusher with so many physical gifts. And if he's going to be your fourth rusher with Quidipe, Yannick Ngakwe, and DeForest Buckner, he's going to get one-on-ones every single time and probably against the weakest offensive linemen. So he could have a pretty surprising year for a lot of people. Yeah, and in that instance where he's getting all these one-on-ones and the one-on-one drills that we've seen, he is winning a lot of the time.

So that's a nice little feather in his cap. If I've got any internet issues or you hear any rumbling it is storming here right now so okay as garth brooks said the thunder rolls and that is absolutely happening country music on here now we've done pop punk we don't country on here garth brooks almost transcends it being country music you know like there's some people i don't care on here. Garth Brooks almost transcends it being country music. You know, like there's some people I don't care because I'm not a country fan, but Garth Brooks, Garth Brooks is his own thing.

I get it. I can't, I was, I was a big Garth Brooks fan, so I get it. But who else on the D line stood out? What were, were,

were the young guys on the D line, even though I know the, a lot of the veterans were out on the interior defensive line, but who else was standing out in that D line? Yeah., so lots of play, obviously, for Eric Johnson in that instance, since everybody was out. I think I had RJ McIntosh with not a sack, but he had a batted pass. There was a section of the practice late where they had the first team offense going against the second team defense and then vice versa. And when McIntosh was going up against the first team offense, he had a batted pass against Matt Ryan. You know, just stick the ball up right in the passing lane and knock it down.

And he looked pretty decent. Eric Johnson just continues to look like just an athletically gifted individual with a lot of size. You don't see 300 pounders moving around as often as, as he does. And it's something nice to see. Yeah, no, he's freaky.

He's freaky, man. So it doesn't shock me at all. I can't wait for people to see him in the preseason. Cause it's like he was, he was a day three pick from a small school, but I think he's really going to pop during the, during this game.

But so that was about it for the defensive line. The next big guy I wanted to talk about, because I just feel like I can't talk about him enough. This summer is Julian Blackman. This was, we've talked positively about him all summer and this might've been his best day. So he had Matt Ryan's first interception,

and it wasn't a gimme by any means. So wrong route, whatever it was, Julian was inside when this ball came out, and it was going towards the outside. He sprinted out for it and dove and came down with it. And then later in the practice, against the Nick Foles, the Nick Foles-led offense,

he almost had a pick six that no one would have caught him at all. It was one of those ones where the quarterback just rifles it into the middle of the field and the safety jumps the route and has all the momentum in the world and no one would catch him. But he just unfortunately couldn't hold on to it. But I just noticed him. He was always a cerebral guy and he always knew what he was doing. I just watched him today.

Lots of communication with his teammates and helping guys get set in the right spots and everything. I'm really excited for him this year. Yeah, no, I mean, honestly, if you had a circle, the X factors on the defense this year, the guys who need to have big years for this defense to be a top 10 unit or a top five unit, like some people are saying, you know, it's Bobby O'Kerrick and Julian Blackman. Those are the top two guys, you know, because so much of the cover three defense or whatever you're calling Gus Bradley's defense, you know, the middle of the field closed defense,

it's those middle defenders. Those middle defenders are everything. So obviously at linebacker with Bobby O'Kerrick and Shaq Leonard when he comes back, but Julian Blackman is vital to keeping the big plays down, to creating turnovers on the back end, to helping the corners and helping the linebackers that can be carrying guys to him in his own.

So, you know, it's a different role for him, but he's plenty capable of doing it. And if he's looking as good as he is in camp here, like, you know, that all the more excitement to have for him this season, because again, we said a couple of times with Stephon Gilmore locking down one side, his assignments are going to be a little bit easier there at that single high safety. So it's on him to kind of turn those into interceptions and pass breakups and limit those big plays. But if he comes back as Julian Blackman that we've seen in the past I mean he's fully capable of doing that yeah I think we've gotten so used to seeing him like games against like the Titans

stand out to me and he wanted to go toe-to-toe like Derrick Henry and play the run and things like that I don't know that we're going to see as much of that since he's going to be you know more lined up in the back but I think we're going to see as much of that since he's going to be more lined up in the back, but I think we're going to see his range and playmaking in the secondary. He just seems to really, really fit into this role in Gus Bradley's scheme, and it's going to be exciting to see. Another guy in the secondary that did decent, Dallas Flowers, came up with the second interception. Again, that was second-team defense against first-team offense.

That's when Matt Ryan kind of overthrew Pittman. And it was kind of an Isaiah Rogers-type play. Flowers just kept running the route and came down with it. It was nice. He's kind of one of my dark horse guys for one of the undrafted guys that can make the team. Does a lot of special teams. He's on the return unit. dark horse guys for one of the undrafted guys that can make the team does a lot of special teams.

He's on the return unit. So he's another one. I'm kind of making this small mental note to keep an eye on because I wouldn't be shocked if he found a way out into the roster. Yeah. He seems like a guy who, even if he does end up on the practice squad, he's probably like a, like a priority guy that would come up during game weeks or something, or come up during injuries and stuff like that because of that special teams ability, you know, the return ability and probably the ability to play some gunner too. So he's definitely an eye, you know, a guy to keep an eye on the rest of the camp here. Yeah. And then I'll, I'll, I'll get into our kicker stuff for you later.

We'll, we'll mash that in this in segment three. Okay. Okay. Cause I had a really good, I had a really good transition into Dave from these kickers because, you know, okay, we'll do it. Yeah. Do some kicker stuff here.

I got a good transition. I got a Jake transition here. So you do the kicker. Talk about your kickers. Pretty, pretty, pretty. Okay.

So for only like the third time this summer, we saw the kickers go at it, which is weird for me. Cause in a kicking battle, you would think you would see more of it, but I digress. Up to today, neither guy had missed a kick. Rodrigo Blankenship, not his strongest day today. Three of five, which is 60%. He hit from 29, 32, and 48, and he missed from 42 and 55. One of the three he made was not great. We kind of thought maybe he kicked the ground before he got to the ball because it just

pooched over the upright. It wasn't pretty by any means. So yeah, the 55-yarder, it had enough leg, but it went wide right. But it was one of those where, you know, you give it your absolute all and it's just not going to be accurate. Jake Verity was, I think I had him three of four. He made from 32, 42 and 45. And then he missed from 55. I think he added another one later during the two minute drill, 48. So he missed one. Blankenship missed two. So a better day so far for Verity. He's got the chalk mark up right now. What say you about this kicker battle?

Nothing. I say nothing about the kicker battle. Absolutely nothing. But you know what I will say? You know, kickers are as inconsistent as it comes. And volatile. And they suck. But you know what I will say? You know, kickers are as inconsistent as it comes and volatile and they suck. But you know what doesn't suck? Dave. Level with me, guys.

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we talked defense, we talked the news and notes. We're going to talk a little preseason action. You know, the Colts are getting ready for this preseason game coming up. And I know all you degenerates are going to bet online you know our other sponsor to bet on that game right there nice drop look at that look at that you know they should pay me for this but um talking about getting ready for this preseason game we're going to kind of treat this a little bit like game week you know where you want to see some good things in practice before the game week starts now we've seen a lot of great things from the defense but Jake what are some things that you want to see from from this offense in particular leading into this this first game even though it is just a preseason game what are you looking for from the offense in practice this

week yeah so I would like in these last two practices to see the offense get back on track at least a little bit, get a little momentum. It doesn't they don't have to be some high flying offense, just like get some rhythm going, you know, get get back to where you're getting the running backs and tight ends involved. That's to me, that's the way to get things moving properly again. It's it's hard to say because a lot of these things have been miscues and drops, missed routes, things like that. You have to eliminate the mental mistakes. It's easier said than done. They want to do that.

They're not doing it on purpose. But just kind of get some rhythm back to it, particularly with Nick Foles. We'll probably see Nick Foles out there a bit, but it's really going to be a Sam Ellinger and Jack Cohn type of night, I'm sure. I want the, I want to see some, I want to see Doolin, Patman, and the Titans get a lot of work too, because I think they'll be very heavily involved in the game plan, whatever game plan it is. Yeah, the only thing I'm really looking forward to the rest of this week and kind of going forward, it's kind of what you said there, you know,

you want some symmetry, you want some guys to be, you know, you want to see some more synergy from this offense. You know, you want to see them actually working and stuff like that. I just want to see the drop tweets go away. So many drops, you know, I mean, today I think I saw a tweet about Michael Pittman Jr. Having a drop or something. I saw Ashton Doolin dropping a touchdown. I see the Kylan Granson ones, Jelani Woods having some, Paris Campbell actually not as many, but you see so many drops and stuff like that. And it's like, that's something that is so fixable. That's not a

mental mistake from having a new quarterback or a new offense or be put into a new role, or that's not something the defense is doing to you. that's on you. That's all in your head right there. And training camp is the perfect time to iron those out. So you want to see throughout this week and throughout the rest of training camp and the preseason to see those issues go away. Because again, we've talked about this a lot. These young receivers and young pass catchers are going to be relied on a lot this year. I mean, they are going to be the guys in the passing game. You know, there's no T.Y. Hilton to rely on. There's no, you know, other veteran at this moment that we're relying on. You know, it is these young guys. It's your Ashton Doolins, your Paris Campbells,

your Alec Pierces, you know, Jelani Woods, Alec or Drew Ogletree. You know, those are the guys who are going to have to have big seasons and you can't be suffering from drops and mistakes here in training camp and then carry that into the season. So for me, that's the only thing I really care about going forward. Like I don't care, you know, Stefan Gilmore locks you up. Fine. You know, I get it. Stefan Gilmore locks you up. Kenny Moore, the second locks you up. Cool. I get it. But don't have the drops, you know, when you're out, make the, you know, you can make mental mistakes even, but finish the play. If the ball is coming your way, that's, that's the biggest thing that I want to see the rest of the training

camp, because those are things that can't be helped. You're absolutely right. They don't have to reinvent the wheel, like just clean up the mistakes, which is fixable. It's all fixable and everything else will take care of itself after that. I really want to see, especially against kind of a deep pass rush, like the bills are kind of getting, I want to see, especially against kind of a deep pass rush, like the bills are kind of getting, I want to see Bernard Ryman, like whatever they can do to get him ready. I don't know if they just need to get him different matchups in these one-on-ones these last couple of days to get him prepared for more, what Buffalo offers. Nick Cross, he's been shuffled down a little bit in that starting strong safety rotation. He and McLeod do kind of trade off series still, but it's been more McLeod lately.

I'd like to see Cross more involved. Just get that guy as many reps as you can because you know he's taking over at some point. And then these defensive linemen, I mean, it's kind of taking care of itself a little bit because of the injuries, but defensive tackle rotation, what's that look like? Yeah. The last thing I want to mention just from this week for this upcoming game, for the rest of off season and training camp and before the regular season, no injuries.

That's all I have. No major injuries. Oh, yeah. I don't want to get my heart broken man you know shaq leonard i hope i hope shaq leonard has taken all the injury bug away from the colts this offseason you know like i'll sacrifice him for a couple games to keep everyone else healthy but you know injuries are going to happen it's going to suck but i really really hope they can come out of this week and this first preseason game, you know, relatively unscathed because preseason and off season injuries are just killer.

Yeah. It's a big bonus that they only have three games now to worry about, even though missing missing Bengals week. Now every week does make me lose. The preseason schedule this year is really weird. Anyways, don't you feel like it used to be geographically based and now they have Buffalo and Tampa in their schedule? I mean, Detroit makes a lot of sense, but Tampa?

No, I remember growing up following Washington, obviously it was always the Ravens was like the last one or something, which is like, that makes sense. It's right down the road. I think they played the Panthers a lot too. Yeah, now it's across the whole country. And it's like, I guess you're getting these guys ready for travel before the season, but I don't know.

I don't agree. I guess I'll go see Tom Brady play again. No, he ain't playing in that game. He's not playing. Absolutely not. I think that kind of puts a fork in us for today, guys. We'll be back with you tomorrow. The Colts won't be.

They have their off day on Tuesday, but they'll be back with you tomorrow. The Colts won't be. They have their off day on Tuesday, but they'll be back on Wednesday and Thursday. They have a travel day Friday and then again the preseason game on Saturday afternoon in Buffalo against the Bills. Yeah, we'll have to do something fun for tomorrow's show. Maybe talk about who we think

can stand out against the Bills or something like that. We'll keep you guys posted. Make sure you guys are following us there on social media, at JakeArthurNFL for all your training camp updates, at Zach Hicks, too, if you just want to learn about Gus Bradley. Apparently that's what my ADHD brain is focused on right now. So, you know, follow on there. Horseshoehuddle.com for all of our written work.

That's where you can find those things I just mentioned. On YouTube here, Locked on Colts YouTube. We have a Horseshoe Hut or Locked on Colts YouTube. We have a lot of YouTubes. Locked on Colts YouTube. We are getting close to 700 subscribers, I think. Don't forget about this. Yeah, don't forget about the header. If you guys get us to 1,000 by the end of August,

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