Locked On Colts - Daily Podcast On The Indianapolis Colts - NFL COMBINE: Anthony Hill Jr. Shines as Linebacker Class is Looking ELITE

Starting point is 00:00:00 Day one of workouts at the 2026 NFL Combine are in the books. And this linebacker class looks elite. 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. Welcome to Locked on Colts, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network. Now the number one sports podcast network around. Today's episode is brought to you by Fandul.

Starting point is 00:00:37 Use your profit boost. on an NBA future and get entered for your chance to win a trip to the NBA finals. Play your game with FanDuel, the official sports betting partner of the NBA. Hello, everyone. My name is Zach Hicks, your resident boots on the ground for horseshoe huddle.com. I'm joined by Jake Arthur, the typical boots on the ground for round table sports. We are here locked in a very heated box recording our podcast today at the convention center in Indianapolis going through day four of the NFL combine, but we're going to be breaking down day

Starting point is 00:01:12 one of the workouts that happened last night. Linebackers in defensive linemen were incredible. They were flying. And this linebacker class in particular, Jake, looks just amazing, especially when the Colts need a couple linebackers. So we're going to kick off our show talking about that. Then we're going to dive into some of these corners in tight ends set to work out either as we're recording, but also later tonight. So we're going to talk all about those players and everything that we're expecting to see from them.

Starting point is 00:01:39 There was already an Indiana corner that is turning some heads with one of his jumps. And then we're going to dive into a couple of the players that we talked to this morning. Jake and I were able to sit in on a couple Indiana receiver conversations and a few other wide receivers around here. And Jake even talked to a quarterback, which is crazy to quarterback. So we'll talk about those guys a little bit as well. But to kick this off, Jake, linebackers and defensive linemen, it's hard to know to start with these guys because especially linebackers, it felt like every single guy was jumping out of the room and was running a crazy 40.

Starting point is 00:02:12 But let's start with a couple of your boys here. Jake Golda and Kyle Lewis, two guys who needed to test well, especially Kyle Lewis being a smaller player. And he was able to put up a really great day, 6 foot 220, 31 and a fourth inch arms, a 453, 39.5 inch vertical and a 109 broad jump. So as a Kyle Lewis fan, Jake, that's everything you wanted to see from your player.

Starting point is 00:02:37 Yeah, without question. I mean, those are really good explosive jumps. I'll be honest, I was hoping for a little bit faster of a run. Like, he can't be picky with 453. But when we have forecasted, you're like replacing Nick Cross, perhaps, in the Colts defense. It's like, I'd really love that to be, you know, in the fours or so. But that's just me being picky. I'm trying to poke holes in a guy that I absolutely love in this draft.

Starting point is 00:03:01 But no, Kyle Lewis. I mean, his field workout was great. He moved really fluidly. We weren't surprised by anything with the measurements. You know, we knew he was a bit undersized. That's no big deal. But he went out and checked yet another box with his scores. Gold Day, of course, great, terrific measurements.

Starting point is 00:03:20 Kind of oddly short arms for a guy with, you know, 6,4, 240, but to have just under, you know, sub 32 inch arms, a little not quite T-Rex-ish, but you would hope for, a little more length. It's not bad. It's around it's around like the 50th percentile. It's not too bad. It's fine. It's normal. You know, whatever. But yeah, you know, 4-62 for him. Explosive jumps as well, 39-inch vertical, over a 10-foot

Starting point is 00:03:44 broad. So I'm into it so far. You know, the guys were hoping to really perform have done so. But honestly, great news for the Colts is that there's another guy who's been mentioned, slipping third round, fourth round. I don't think so anymore, man. Like, his athletic testing is got him locked in. Yeah, Jacob Rodriguez won every single award that you could win.

Starting point is 00:04:06 You could win as a defender in college football last year. Had questions from a lot of scouts about how good of an athlete he is, how long his arms are. And while the arms came in pretty short, the testing numbers were just incredible across the board. And one thing that you really look at, too, from like the Colts perspective, Chris Ballard and the Colts value these guys who come out and compete and do every drill because not many people do every drill anymore. So Jacob Rodriguez is one of the few players to do every single drill here at the combine. Ran a 457, 1.6, 10 yards split, 38.5 vert, 1001 broad, 6.93 cone, which would be in like the,

Starting point is 00:04:45 that's the elite class of like edge rusher tier that we're talking. And then a 419 short shuttle. Like these are near receiver numbers and those agility. So Jacob Rodriguez was probably the biggest winner of the event so far. Yeah. because a guy who had the production, had the pedigree of winning every trophy, being on this top tier defense,

Starting point is 00:05:05 being the captain of a top tier defense last year, all the questions were about his athleticism. And he passed with flying colors. He passed the Senior Bowl test as well. So anyone who wants to put Jacob Rodriguez in round three at this point, honestly, we could even put him in like round two at this point. Because why is he falling to round two at this point, right? what more does he need to prove he's got the head he's got the smart he's got the production

Starting point is 00:05:31 he's got the athleticism mustache he's got the mustache yeah like not like robbie oots level last year but close why is this guy not going in round one so to me if he's there at 47 you run the card in because he's just he's a guy where i couldn't talk myself out throughout the whole process but now i feel like everyone's going to talk themselves in because what is there not to like about Jacob Rodriguez at this point. Yeah, and we've seen the Colts make exceptions for guys who maybe don't hit the size thresholds if they have a special trait and creating turnovers is it for him. He did it in droves at Texas Tech, but then he goes to the senior bowl and continues doing it. I remember early in one practice, he had a punch out, force fumble recovered by his teammates.

Starting point is 00:06:15 And then on the last day, I believe he had another fumble and an interception to close things out. So this guy, he is a magnet for the ball. The Colts have sorely, sorely missed playmaking linebackers. They had three takeaways from the linebacker group last year. They were all Jermaine Pratt. Pratt's probably not going to be there next year. Zaire Franklin, who was a stat sheet stuff for in 2024, maybe not either. So the Colts need playmaking from the linebacker position.

Starting point is 00:06:44 They need leadership, athleticism. They need a Jacob Rodriguez. Yeah. And if Rodriguez isn't there, a guy that I, really like and I think would be a great fit for the Colts as well. Anthony Hill Jr. from Texas, 6-2-238, over the 32-inch arm threshold. Also ran a 451, 37-inch vertical, 10-0-5 broad. Production was there on film as well. He looked really good, a good thumper, good classic linebacker who can cover. I think Anthony Hill Jr. is a guy who could be a sneaky guy who's

Starting point is 00:07:13 like there at 47 that could fill that void the Colts are looking for. But moving past linebackers real quick, Jake. There were a couple of defense events that really stood out. And defense end's a hard one to talk about, right? Because so many of these like top testers are guys that are going in round one. David Bailey, Rubin Bain, you know, all these guys are going in round one.

Starting point is 00:07:32 So it's hard to find guys that fit the Colts. But there were three guys I thought really stood out that could be day two or maybe day three, probably day two type picks. Malachi Lawrence from UCF, 64, 253, Vines for Arms, ran a 452, 40-inch,

Starting point is 00:07:48 vertical and a 10-10 broad jump and then denied Dennis Sutton was the winner of the day from Penn State, a guy who I did a prospect spotlight on last week. He's a 6'5-256 with 33-inch arms, right of 463, 39.5 vert, 10-11 broad, and then the beautiful number, a 6.93-3 cone. If you get under 7 in that 3-cone, we're talking like elite tier athlete, 6.9 at 256 is his bonkers. So Deny Dennis Sutton, the former five-star recruit that went to Penn State and even had over 20 sacks in his college career, there's going to be a lot of teams lining up for him. And I said in the prospect spotlight, like, oh, yeah, maybe early day three you could get this guy. We're not getting him early day three anymore at this point. He's going to go day two.

Starting point is 00:08:36 So we'll see if the Colts want to invest in another project off the edge. Yeah, no, I mean, I think I joke when we were watching last night, I was like, I didn't love what he looked like in the coverage drills. A bit of a silly goose vibe there from what I saw. But the rest of the field workout was awesome. You just can't, you can't argue with those testing scores with those physical measurables. Like, that's, that's just hard to pass up. And you did a spotlight on him because he matches, like, he's like an old Chris Ballard type, like so much. He fits that.

Starting point is 00:09:08 So, I mean, is he a project for you? I mean, shoot, the guy might be able to have a little bit of a role at this point. Yeah. One more player to mention too, just because he played at Wisconsin. Mason Rager was really great at the Shrine Bowl. Had I think a two and a half sacks in the Shrine Bowl game. 65, 251, 32-inch arms, ran a 478, which isn't super impressive, but a really good 16, 1, 10-yard split, 40-inch vertical, 10-5 broad,

Starting point is 00:09:37 has the explosives, has the length, has the size, and has the Wisconsin. We know Chris Ballard is going to be a fan, so keep an eye on him. might be like a day three pick, but he's a guy who I think the Colts could be interested in. But coming up, guys, we're going to continue this combine coverage and we're going to discuss a couple corners, safeties, and tight ends that we are watching here on Friday afternoon and evening. And guys that we're watching, not only again for them being able to jump out the gym or do some great numbers, but also for guys that need to hit baseline numbers to still be high

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Starting point is 00:11:12 All right, welcome back every day. Thank you for making Locked on Colts your first lesson of the day and locked on the number one sports podcast network. out there in the Milky Way galaxy. It has been proven. Please do not try to refute me on that. But a reminder, if you're not already part of the Everydayer Club, please do so, especially right now with the Combine going and like Anthony Richardson rumors going. Our Discord server over there has been hopping.

Starting point is 00:11:39 So if you're part of the Everydayer Club, you're going to get our audio ad free and you're going to get an invite to that Discord server. Just go to Lockedoncultz.com to join. You can gift a subscription. The link's also going to be in our show notes here. So just, you know, when you're done here, go click there, join the group, join the party after this because the party doesn't end when we're done recording. We all just move it all over there to the Discord server. All right, Zach, so let's talk about some of these DBs that maybe not super high on the Colts priority list, at least not corner.

Starting point is 00:12:10 But some of these guys are going to ball out. Some of them already have started to as of the beginning of this conversation we're having. But safety, though, that's a position. we really want to see some of these guys shine because the Colts are willing to throw three safeties out there. So like you may be losing it cross. You were going to have a need anyway. So like that's a position we all need to be paying attention to. Yeah. As of this recording right now, some of the corners have done their jumps and are starting to do some of their 40-yard dashes. So we don't want to come on here and predict a guy running a 4-3.

Starting point is 00:12:41 I bet you DeAngelin-pons goes 40 plus. Yeah. DeAngelpon's 43-inch bird. I'm locking that in. That has already happened from when we are talking. But as well, we are speaking the safeties are starting to do some of their explosives and guys that we're really watching are obviously Emmanuel McNeill Warren from Toledo we expect him to test out of this world and honestly when you had that expectation as a player like that it's almost like anything you could do here is going to be a knock on you right because if you don't test like nick em and worry or to a degree like that that it's like oh well that was the big selling point in your game so you need him to hit those numbers if he's going to get out there and do all the tests so i'm excited to see what he's able to put up

Starting point is 00:13:19 because I think he's capable of putting up some really good numbers. A guy that you really like out of LSU, A.J. Halsey, a player who came in bigger than Kyle Lewis, right? Like, weighs more than Kyle Lewis, but played a lot of free safety at LSU. So how is he able to move is, does the film match what he's able to do this week? I think that's going to be a big question. And then Kamari Ramsey as well from USC or as Jake likes to call him Malachi. Those are the same first name. Kamari Ramsey, wrong in the notes here, but Kamari Ramsey, I think there are some questions a little bit with his athleticism.

Starting point is 00:13:54 I think he turns his hips well, and I think if he were to do like agilities, I think that he would do really well. But I'm really curious to see what the explosives look like, what the vertical looks like, because if he checks those boxes, I feel really good about putting him in the slot, putting it like a nickel corner or even like an overhang type position in the NFL. So very curious on those type of guys. Those are guys we've talked about a lot. this all season for you guys. But again, I'm very excited to see Emmanuel McNeill Warren. I really want to see him put some crazy numbers up because I think he's very capable of doing so.

Starting point is 00:14:25 Yeah, without a doubt, I'm right there with you because, you know, we were kind of, we're kind of chatting with our group earlier today. You know, I said, Emmanuel McNeill Warren, my kind of like hot take is that he's not necessarily going to be that second safety off the board. You get Dylan Thineman in there and suddenly how many safeties are teams really running up to get. I don't think he would last to 47 for the Colts, but if the Colts were in love and wanted to move up like five, six spots to go get him,

Starting point is 00:14:53 well, that's pretty entertaining at that point. You know what I mean? Yeah, and speaking of Thineman real quick, look, we're recording this before Thineman's done anything, I promise. So maybe this will age perfectly and you guys will think I'm lying, but I think we're going to see a bonkers combine from him. I think four threes is certainly on the table. I think super high explosives.

Starting point is 00:15:11 He is a freaky, freaky athlete, GPS numbers from guys, I've talked to. The GPS numbers at college were among the best in all of college football. There was actually a Purdue receiver here, Dionne Berks, a former Purdue receiver, who said that when he was put, when Burks was putting up like four three, his low four fours in practice, thenaman was running right alongside him, you know, and all these practices. So I think thinneman's another safety to really watch for a guy like McNeil Warren who's

Starting point is 00:15:37 going to put up some crazy numbers. Yeah, without or doubt. And you would mention Halsey and Ramsey. Halsey I'm very interested in because he's a versus. guy you can kind of do he's free safety base normally but you could drop him down he's got a great frame and then he can do some of that nickel stuff as well ramsie i really am interested in those explosive scores because we talked about it the other day i think he at times comes off a little casual he's he plays it safe a little bit so i want to see what it looks like to click and close and

Starting point is 00:16:10 like what he's capable of in that department uh but then let's look at some of these corners as well, the Colts maybe go poking around and in the middle round, middle rounds. Charles Demings from Stephen F. Austin and Julie and Neil from Arkansas. Those are a couple guys that kind of have in similar buckets, kind of height, weight speed, Lou Anarumo types that were there at the Senior Bowl. Demings, I thought, you know, he didn't catch my attention all week down in Mobile, but there was a couple times I noticed him going stride for stride with some speedsters down, down the sideline and holding his own. And I know he got a nice pass. ass break up one day.

Starting point is 00:16:47 Julian Neal is a guy who, a physical guy who kind of sticks in your hip pocket. I think he's probably going to be more of a man type where he's going to be able to control you a little bit, but he's going to be in the middle of rounds because these faster, speedier guys, you know, they might be able to kind of stir him up a little bit. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:17:09 But he's, I'm hoping, going to have some measurables that make teams worth really, really wanting to kind of invest in that. Yeah, and talking of more height weight speed, guys, Domani Jackson from Alabama, over six foot, was a 100 meter sprinting champion in high school. And you could see that speed on display at Alabama the last couple of years.

Starting point is 00:17:27 And Marcus Allen over at North Carolina. Now this is like the 20th Marcus Allen to enter the NFL, but six foot two already tested with some pretty good explosives earlier today. Marcus Allen's another guy. I'm curious to see some of his field work as well because heightweight speed. Look, Colts kept throwing Jonathan Edwards. out there all last season because of the height weight speed. They like that that archetype for their man coverage scheme.

Starting point is 00:17:51 So we got to look at some of these height weight speed guys. Real quick, though, shifting to tight end. We don't have too much to say about this position because we think the Colts just go more of the veteran route there. Oscar Delph, a guy that we both like and a lot of draft analysts are really high on blocking tight end at Georgia that has the athletic ability to do more. Unfortunately, they found that he has a foot fracture that he played with all season. He didn't even realize it was a foot fracture.

Starting point is 00:18:14 And they actually have to hold him out of doing any kind of workout for safety reasons and I guess liability reasons as well. So Oscar Delpa player that a lot of us expected to test among the best out of all tight ends. Based off the film we saw from this past season with him playing with a airline fracture in his foot, I think when he's able to get that healed up for his pro day, I think it's going to look really good. And then Jake, I'll let you go into your boy that you have to do a spotlight on him soon. Because I like, because like it's one of the three names in this draft. I certainly can't pronounce. And you've got it locked in because you just love this guy so much,

Starting point is 00:18:49 even though Notre Dame fans hate him. Yeah, and that's perfectly fine. But it's Texas A&M tied in Nate Borchurcher. He's kind of got that dope arc, you know, that career arc where he goes to his whole career as a blocking tight end. People don't think anything of them. And then his final year, here he goes. But it took Borchurcher transferring from Nebraska to Texas A&M to do it.

Starting point is 00:19:10 At Nebraska, you know, he shared the starting role with Thomas Bedoni, who was more of the past catcher there. Texas A&M asked more of him in the past catching department. And not only can he get separation and uses his big frame to kind of box guys out, but the guy can make some really spectacular catches. Fighting Irish fans don't need any further question on that. But he did it numerous times down in Mobile at the Senior Bowl. He's done it a few times now in college in that final year on tape.

Starting point is 00:19:41 And so very obviously, this guy is is capable of more than what he was asked those first four years at Nebraska again him and dope are are kind of cut from that same career arc but with poor Kircher I'm really really hoping for some good testing scores um because I want the Colts to be interested I think as much as I want the Will Mallory thing to work it's never going to because he can't block or Kircher was a blocker for four years and then showed that he is a pretty capable pass catcher. So Moe Alleycox drew Ogletrees for agents.

Starting point is 00:20:19 Tyler Warren is going to need a backup, going to need a compliment. And I think this guy would be perfect for it. Yeah, I actually think his best display of catching I've ever seen is when you were blowing those kisses to him the other day. Yeah, man. He caught all of them. Caught all of them.

Starting point is 00:20:32 It was very impressive, very impressive. Coming up, though, guys, we're going to get away from the on-field workouts and predicting things forward. And talk about some of the players that we talked to this morning as media availability, our second to last media availability of the Combine season. And we talked to a lot of former Hoosiers and some guys who could potentially be Colts in the future. Welcome to the five-hour energy flavor draft with 18 different flavors to choose from,

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Starting point is 00:22:15 hour energy shots available online at five hour energy.com or on amazon all right welcome back to locked on colts draft nerds we are talking NFL combine because the colts have so far not made any new news today thank you guys uh so we're talking again the combine we've already seen some testing going on there's some going on right now with some defensive backs uh but we're going to shift focus to the guys who are going to be working out tomorrow uh we're looking at that guys that we spoke with for media availability today. I had the gall to talk to a couple of quarterbacks because they were there. But there was a lot of wide receivers out there today that we were talking with as well.

Starting point is 00:23:00 Zach, let me kick it to you first again with the lesser known guys. You had a couple headliners, I will say, today. You didn't go off the beaten path too bad with your draft crashes today. But who did you talk to who really stood out? Yeah, no, I talked to a couple guys that I think are fairly notable process. specs, at least like top 100 or fringe top 100 type players to kick it off today. I talked to Dejohn Stribbling from Ole Miss, a very sturdy wide receiver, very good blocker, has the speed to turn the corner and get vertical.

Starting point is 00:23:33 I think it was against, earlier in the year, I think against like Florida or someone. He took a screen to the house, or I think it was Georgia's defense actually, took a screen to the house for a big time gain. That's just kind of what he brings to the game. But he was a really fun way to start the day because a very military. kid, very well-spoken, serious, and approachable player as well. So he's someone where I think coaches are going to just fall in love with in the room where it's like, okay, this guy is a pros, pro already. And again, the film is really good to watch. And like, I think this is a guy who can

Starting point is 00:24:05 be a 10 plus year pro because he does a lot of the little things well from blocking the physicality to catching underneath and also being able to get vertical with his speed. So Dijon Stribbling is one of my like favorite middle of the like middle tier type players in this class at wide receiver another guy I really like is Reggie Virgil from Texas Tech complete opposite personality I don't even mean that in like a negative way where stribling is like this like talks like a 40 year old man who's been in the military and very like reserved and just ready to be like an adult Reggie Virgil is like a kid in a candy store right he felt just happy to be there really pumped and excited but even when I was able to

Starting point is 00:24:45 to get a lot of questions in about, you know, certain aspects of his game, how he stacks players vertically down the field, how he wins at Pressman coverage, transferring to a school like Texas Tech that just brought in all these other very good players from where he was. He was very, like, just having a good time in answering all those questions and gave me some really enlightening answers, giving a lot of credit to his coaches there at Texas Tech as well. So Reggie Virgil, maybe not as thick and as bulky as Stribbling,

Starting point is 00:25:13 where Stribbling can win more over the middle of the field. Virgil is more of this long, skinny, athletic, down-the-field target guy, but I think he's another guy that Colts could look at. And then the man of the hour, I talked to Omar Cooper, Jr. later than the day. Do you mean man of the hour because that's how many times, multiple times over we had to wait? Yeah, man of the hours. Omar Cooper Jr. did finally come out for his press availability later in the day. Just a very humble, like, down-to-earth religious kid.

Starting point is 00:25:41 Like, he's someone where, like, you can. could tell he came from that Indiana program, right? The Indiana program that had a lot of older players who were just so ready for the moment all year long. They stepped up at big times. And so many good quotes came out of him. He was talking about Pat Coogan in a very positive light. He talked about the game winning catch against Penn State where Mendoza pulled him aside after the game and said, I didn't care what coverage they were running. I was going to throw you that ball regardless. A lot of really cool moments from him. And he's a guy who he talked about the ability to win. underneath the ability to win vertical, the ability to win over to build the field, and he's a guy who thinks he can do it all at the next level. So while Stribling and Virgil are two realistic options I like for the Colts, Omar Cooper Jr., born in Indianapolis, played his football in Indiana for pretty much his whole career. I would love him to be on the Colts, but his stock is rising to a degree where I don't know if that's going to be possible. Very, very good player, though, even though I think Stribling and Virgil are more realistic for the Colts going

Starting point is 00:26:41 forward. Yeah, no, those are definitely good options. Cooper is someone, I, think fans are going to be enamored with until the draft comes and he ultimately is picked before the culture up. We're going to keep the IU flavor going though because I talked to Elijah Surat today. Again, really just a great personality was jubilantly answered all his questions. He went for a very long, he went until they pulled him off, went for a very long time. But he and DeAngelo Ponds, I talked to both of them in consecutive days and they've got similar stories because their Kurt Signetti recruits from JMU who came with them to Indiana. So you're going from this very small JMU program to Indiana who's never won anything.

Starting point is 00:27:23 And now two years later, you're a national championship, which has never been done in Bloomington. No one ever thought it would happen. And now you're at the NFL combine. You know what I mean? So like how wild of a ride is that? But with Surat, he is very interesting because if we're looking at him as a player, you've got like Sarat, who I think is, a really good replacement for Michael Pittman Jr.

Starting point is 00:27:47 Let's say if you lose Michael Pittman Jr. And you don't want to take a wide receiver with your first pick, well, Surat might be there in the third, maybe even the fourth round. Because he's probably not going to blow the roof off here at Lucas Oil Stadium, but he's a guy who does understand how to get separation. He's a good route runner. He's got a nice physical frame as well.

Starting point is 00:28:07 And he's a guy that can win those back shoulders and stuff like that. And then Ted Hurst as well is more of the, Alec Pierce type. Now you're not going to lose Alec Pierce, but he's a height, weight speed, deep ball specialist, good at the 50-50 stuff. He's really checked every box that you could so far. He was from Val Dostas State, transferred to Georgia State, and then went and absolutely balled out at the Senior Bowl the entire week.

Starting point is 00:28:34 And now I expect him to test very, very well here on the field at Lucas Oil Stadium. So he's a guy who just continues ascending. Yeah, no for sure. And the only other person that was notable that either you or I talked to the rest of the day was Chris Brasel from Tennessee. Not too many big takeaways with that one, you know, gave a lot of good answers. But I think my biggest takeaway was him having to correct so many reporters on the type of offense that Tennessee ran this past year that they don't run the same offense that Jalen Hyatt was in. It's not as collegey this past season. But I thought that was pretty funny.

Starting point is 00:29:09 But yeah, Chris Brasel, the second, height, height, weight, speed guy, and went down the field, very fun player. But Jake, I think that's all we had today for guys that we talked to, right? Did you have anything else you wanted to say? No, I randomly happened into the Cade Clubnik one, which doesn't, you know, there's nothing there at that, but I talked about Zach's fair. I talked to Zach's fair player Drew Aller. I talked to him briefly just to talk quickly about Tyler Warren because, of course,

Starting point is 00:29:35 we had all year to talk to Tyler Warren and he's just never going to talk about himself. You're never going to get anything revealing from him. So I wanted to talk to his former quarterback, and he was really good. It was funny because apparently Tyler Warren is a very good performer when it comes to doing Usher's Yeah, which was everyone's best song back in, you know, when I was in middle school. Every white boy is good at saying that song. Of course, but he has a dance to it as well. Every white boy has got a dance to it.

Starting point is 00:30:04 Has a dance to anything I thought was shocking. But no, Alar was just telling me about how valuable. Warren is as a player. It really gave me like Quentin Nelson vibes of the freelancing he's able to do because of how smart he is and he's able to help other guys without them knowing it's even going to come. Like he told me that he would just go in motion on his own without it being a plan just to kind of help Alarout to see what the defense is going to be doing. So with you got really smart guys in this Colts offense. Daniel Jones, Tanner Borderlini, Quentin Nelson, Tyler Warren. that translates all the time. If you have a bunch of smart players, extra plays will be made because of that. And so that made me more excited to see Tyler Warren here too. Even if you don't like that, it was Drew Aller.

Starting point is 00:30:56 We're not shooting the messenger on this one. We are giving the messenger a hug today. Yeah. Speaking of quarterbacks, K-Clubnick literally just walked right by us as we were talking there. So I'm glad I was stood saying anything negative. It's not like you could hear us. We're in a soundproof box,

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