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Starting point is 00:00:00 Indianapolis Colts general manager Chris Ballard spoke to the media today about Alec Pierce, Keenan Allen, and the state of his defensive line room. 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. I'm Zach Hicks, and today's episode is brought to by Fandul. College Football Saturdays are already packed with reasons to get excited in

Starting point is 00:00:36 this season, Fandul is giving fans even more ways to get in on the matchups. Join all the action at Fandul.com. On today's show, we're going to be diving into the Chris Ballard Press Conference prior to the start of the 26th season. He gave us some enlightening answers on some very prevalent topics right now with the Colts, Keenan Allen's arrest, Alec Pearson, the update on his injury status, also about Anthony Richardson and A.J. Halsey updates are going to be pretty prevalent topics to cover in segment one.

Starting point is 00:01:09 Then we're going to talk about the defensive line in segment two, how Chris Ballard had some odd answers when it came to the defensive line. We'll talk about that in depth in segment two. And then to close out the show, we'll talk about today's practice, not too much in terms of notes, but some injury updates, also some minor practice squad moves. And also my opinion, or my take, I guess, on the newest Colts player, Kapanegu Shooken. I didn't get a chance to talk about him. because Jake did the show solo, so I'll give you guys my thoughts on the young player as well.

Starting point is 00:01:41 But let's start off this episode by talking about Keenan Allen. Obviously, that has been one of the biggest topics with the Indianapolis Colts in recent days. Keenan Allen was arrested the other day for OWI outside, like at 3 a.m., was in the driver's seat under the influence, was arrested, was released from custody shortly before 4 p.m., I think, on Monday afternoon. So it was a big conversation point, obviously, with a lot of media members talking about the Colts and where the team could go from here, where everything would happen with this situation. Chris Ballard opened up his press conference by speaking on it, and he said, and I quote, one thing is I'm not going to comment on what happened, but what I'm going to tell you is good people make mistakes. He's a tremendous human being, give him some grace, and he'll work through the process of the legal system. So it doesn't appear the Colts are in any, like, determination. to release Keenan Allen or they're moving on from him. They said repeatedly in this press

Starting point is 00:02:40 conference, Chris Ballard said that they have handled this internally. And that kind of seems to be it with that. And just kind of a quick reminder too when it comes to this situation, there is a mandatory three-game suspension for alcohol-related driving arrest regarding NFL players, but that usually does not come down until after all of the court proceedings are done. And with how the court system typically works. That would be like nine months out. So I don't expect a suspension to really affect the Colts this season. The league will handle it, but I do expect that to be more of a thing for next season if Keenan Allen does play again at age 35 and 2027. So the Colts probably won't face too much when it comes from like the league suspending Keenan Allen this year.

Starting point is 00:03:25 But again, that could change with internally, like how the Colts handle this. Chris Ballard did say that Allen will play in week one. He didn't specifically. He didn't specify if he'll start or play early in that game. So again, that could be part of the internal punishment with that. But they did just say that he'll play in week once. So that's all the update that Chris Ballard gave us on the situation. Again, anything else that I could add would be pure speculation and legal speculation, which is not something that you guys come to this podcast for. So we will leave it at that with the Keenan Allen situation. Going to Anthony Richardson, though, the Colts decided to ultimately keep Anthony Richardson on the 53-man roster.

Starting point is 00:04:06 Ballard did not go into any type of details in terms of him being the backup quarterback or anything, but he did mention that he will be an Indianapolis Colt this season. So it's not off the table completely that a trade could still happen when it comes to Anthony Richardson. Like the trade request is still technically out there, and Richardson still has an active trade request. But at the end of the day, he's probably going to be the Colts backup quarterback. you know, again, it comes down to Shane Steichen making that decision.

Starting point is 00:04:33 But with how Riley Leonard looked this offseason, I mean, Richardson's probably going to be their backup. And teams are not too much in like a hurry to move your backup quarterback, especially when your starters coming off in Achilles injuries, had a history of injuries as well in this league. And Ballard, you know, always the Anthony Richardson like supporter did mention there were a couple times offseason that Anthony Richardson really stood out to him. He mentioned in his press conference, and I quote, there are two times in camp that I said, okay, he's starting to really show some poise. The two-minute situation against New England, remember we were backed up, it was like 38 seconds left on the clock, gets us in field goal range and gives us a chance to get some points. And then during the Atlanta scrimmage, he had a tremendous two-minute situation as well.

Starting point is 00:05:17 So it's been fun watching Anthony's growth. And I would actually agree with that. I do think some of the poise that we've seen from Anthony Richardson this offseason has been a big part of his growth. It's still probably not where you want a guy to be in his fourth year in the NFL, but it's still progress. It's still moving forward for a young player. So when you watch him through these preseason games,

Starting point is 00:05:37 you watch him through some of the joint practices, I do think his overall pocket feel and pocket presence has been better than, say, Riley Leonard a lot this off season. I think that did go into the equation here where it's like, again, when you're debating what your backup quarterback situation should look like, Richardson's probably the better option for the Colts this year, so you don't want to just move him for, you know, pennies on the dollar when you probably need him to be your backup this season.

Starting point is 00:06:01 So, yeah, it does feel like Anthony Richardson will be with the Colts for the remainder of this season and probably will be the backup quarterback. But again, we'll wait and see when it comes down to when Shane Stuyken wants to announce that, or if you waits all the way up until game time, and we see, like, the inactive list to see who the backup quarterback is going to be. So the weight is still on, I guess, to see. the official announcement for backup quarterback, but that will come at some point for the Indianapolis Colts. Some updates, too, on Alec Pierce and AJ Halsey's injuries. Alec Pierce's injury in particular,

Starting point is 00:06:34 Chris Ballard said, you know, I don't know yet if he's going to be like when he's going to be back out there or fully going to be out there again, but I think he's in a really good place. He's progressing well, and also he's in a really good spot with that injury. So we'll see how it progresses over the next 10 days. Ballard did say the expectation has always been week one. He said that's the hope when it comes to seeing Alec Pierce out there in week one. So I still think, and I've maintained this throughout the whole offseason, I do think we will see Alec Pierce out there in week one. Chris Ballard certainly held back on making any predictions or assumptions because he kind

Starting point is 00:07:08 of got burned, but in the early part of training camp with his one to two week windows. So take it with a grain of salt for sure. But I do think we see Alec Pierce out there week one, even if it's more of a decoy role just while he's getting his legs back under him. I still just think having the gravity of Alec Pierce on the field makes the Colts offense much better, but I'm not too worried about Alec Pierce. I've said that all offseason,

Starting point is 00:07:30 and I continue not to be too worried about the Colts top receiver with A.J. Halsey, it is seemingly like a little bit more of like a, we'll wait and see with him. I think this will be one that will come down to what the injury report looks like next week during when we get like the first official injury reports on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. With Halsey, we see Chris Ballard here said that I think he's in, he's progressing well, so well, and it'll be a better question for next week, but he's progressing really well. So kind of the coach speak of like he's getting there, but he's not there quite yet.

Starting point is 00:08:03 So we'll see with AJ Halsey. I'm kind of of the opinion that I think I would start Hunter Woller in the first game anyway against the Baltimore Ravens. I just think with what Hunter Woler showed this all season, especially in his preseason film, I think that his ability in run game, especially in run defense, would probably be a better fit against the Baltimore Ravens team that's going to come out here with Lamar Jackson, Derek Henry, heavy, like, outside zone running system with their new defense or with their new offensive coordinator. So I do think that starting Hunter Woler probably makes the most sense. And if, if AJ Halsey's not going to be out there or if he's going to be limited in any way,

Starting point is 00:08:40 then I think that further backs up kind of my take there with Hunter Woller. We'll see. Still plenty of time until the first game, like two weeks still until the first game, a little, I guess a little under two weeks now at this point. So plenty of time for guys to get healthy, get A.J. Halsey back out there, Alec Pierce to Procress. So a lot of things coming for the Indianapolis Colts. But we're going to get to the meat and potatoes of this episode here in just a moment, because Chris Ballard did talk a little bit about the defensive line in his press conference here. And some of the comments I think were enlightening. And others, I have a bone to pick with. so we're going to get into some more ranting in the second segment of today's episode.

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Starting point is 00:10:26 we are back talking about this Chris Ballard press conference. We talked about the updates on Kenan Allen and Alec Pierce and A.J. Halsey and Anthony Richardson in the first segment. But again, let's get to some defensive line stuff. And before we do that, though, don't forget to check out the Everdair Club for ad-free episodes and access to a group chat with other listeners of the show, me and Jake as well. Tap the link in the show notes or go to Lockdowncultz.

Starting point is 00:10:50 All right, guys, so where should we start with these defensive line comments? Let's start with the big one. Obviously, the most surprising move of the week was the Colts releasing Colby Wooden, the player they acquired for trading Zaire Franklin this offseason. They released him in favor of Jerry Tilleri and Tim Smith. And Chris Ballard was asked about that, and I'm going to read the whole quote to you guys, just completely word for word, read the whole quote. So sorry if this is a little bit long, but I just want you guys to get the proper context before

Starting point is 00:11:18 I start complaining on here. He said, and I quote, yeah, that was not easy. That was not easy one. I don't know if it was as much as Colby as it was about Jerry Tillery and Tim Smith. Those two kids, they just played better. They played better. Tim Smith now, I'm proud of him. He's drafted from Alabama, had his struggles last preseason and really even into the year, but we stuck with him. He kept working and then just kind of a light came on. He played his butt off, butt off, we're going to say here for the podcast, his butt off the last three weeks of training camp.

Starting point is 00:11:48 and in the preseason, I think he was our leading tackler in the last game. I'm really proud of Tim Smith of where he's at and where he's going. So let me just first say something positive here. I completely agree with everything he said about Tim Smith. Tim Smith in those last couple games and also just the last couple weeks of practice really turned a corner. And you could tell by the final preseason game that he was, without a doubt, the next best guy after Atatomio, Atta Bore.

Starting point is 00:12:13 He had earned a spot on the roster. And even though I still think that some of his tackling needs some of his, refinement. Overall, he looked like, again, the fourth best defensive tackle on this roster. I also don't have too many complaints with cutting Colby Wooden. I thought he was kind of just adequate this offseason, so I'm fine with releasing Colby Wooden. But you guys know my true complaint here. Saying that Jerry Tilly outplayed anybody is absurd. It truly is absurd. I don't know where this outplaying of anybody was with Jerry Tillery. I mean, I watched every snap of every player in the preseason, and I would have him below Cam Ball and Derek Nottie in terms of

Starting point is 00:12:51 performance in this preseason. He was absolutely dreadful. And, you know, I'm not saying that preseason's everything. Maybe in the offseason work, he was outstanding. But according to beat guys on the ground, according to Jake Arthur, who like, again, most of these people, if they ever projected him on a roster, it was just because he was running with the first team, it wasn't for anything he was doing. But, you know, again, let me, let me digress. Let me just kind of bring it back a little bit by saying maybe he was great for other teams, right? Maybe he was great for other teams. He didn't have to have a great offseason here, but you're going off of his former play. No, he was a football mercenary who struggled every stop he's been in the last couple years. He hasn't been a good

Starting point is 00:13:31 football player for years. He didn't have a great camp. He did have a horrible preseason. I have no clue where he outperformed anybody. So you're kind of seeing the two ends of a meritocracy here when it comes to the defensive line room, where on one end, Tim Smith was kind of a dark horse to make the roster, and I do think he absolutely earned it, and I'm happy to see that he was on the roster. On the other end, though,

Starting point is 00:13:52 I think you just see a guy in Jerry Tilly where they like the idea of him more than the actuality of him, and it's going to be just dreadful for this Colts run defense when he's getting 20 snaps in week one with Derek Henry and Lamar Jackson out there. So, again, I don't want to go too hard on Jerry Tiller. I know I just did, but I don't want to just make this the whole Jerry Tillery experience,

Starting point is 00:14:11 but it is mind-boggling to me while he is on this roster. John Ledyard, a good friend of the show, and been a good friend for a long time, made a good point on Twitter when I was, again, complaining about this. He said that, like, people are, like, Jerry Tillery's almost 30 years old, and people are still betting on the potential of what he could be. I think we're at the point with him that he kind of is what he is, which is a guy who can't defend the run whatsoever,

Starting point is 00:14:37 and if you're going to have him as a designated pass rusher, you have better guys on the roster like Atatomua, Atabora had defensive tackle. Even Grover Stewart's probably a better pass rusher at this point than Jerry Tilleries. So, yeah, again, I promised I wouldn't go too crazy on here, but I don't understand it at all. It just does not make any sense. And then they even had a chance to waive him after cleaning Gushikin yesterday. And you could have put him on the practice squad. Nobody's taking him off your practice squad.

Starting point is 00:15:05 Instead, they waived their only other tackle and put him on the practice squad. So I do not understand it in the slightest, but it is what it is. Jerry Tilleries on this football team, and I owe my apologies to Taven Bryan because I did not think it could get worse, and it actually has. Let's talk about the edge room, though, because Chris Ballard had some comments on them as well. He was asked about his feelings about the edge room in general, and he said, and I quote, and what makes the group most unique is it's hard to get all those guys up on game day, but they all offer stuff on special teams like Atatomua,

Starting point is 00:15:36 Caden Curry, George Gums Jr., Jalen Tua, all those guys are really good on special teams, which I agree. They're all really good on special teams. I mean, they're probably all best in that role of being like your fifth or sixth defensive player. I mean, Tommy, I think, is a legit defensive player. But the other guys probably should be bottom of the roster players, but they're going to be propped up because the lack of depth in this defensive end room. But I think the most enlightening answer that Chris Ballard gave. I don't think it's getting the proper run on socials and just across Colts fandom as it should. So I really want to highlight it here. He was asked specifically about Jalen to

Starting point is 00:16:10 him a low-owal's development this offseason. It was a very open-ended question. It wasn't leading in any way. It wasn't asking about his struggles. So purely whatever Chris Ballard wanted to answer with this question. And this is what Ballard said. And I quote again, I think he's making good progress. I thought practices were really good. They get gassed in games, like these preseason games, they can get gas pretty quickly. You always want to keep that in mind. And he's playing on teams, every special teams, so they get gassed. We think he's making good progress. I mean, I think the other day he had the first two tackles on a kickoff against Detroit, and I know that doesn't speak to the rush, but we thought he did some really good things, both versus New

Starting point is 00:16:49 England and Atlanta. We think he's making good strides. And I think that just says so much about where Jalen Toomelah is in year two of his development, where this second round pick, he's in his second year. And the first thing we have to bring up about this guy is excuses. Like, okay, practice was good, yeah, practice was good. The stuff that you guys didn't really see on film, practice was good. And then it's kind of excuses after that where it's like, you know, he's tired out there. He's getting gassed, you know, he's going to do the Anthony Richardson tap out, I guess. They got Richardson benched.

Starting point is 00:17:19 But, you know, I guess he's so gassed, right? Jay and did him a low-ow. So giving him those excuses right away, talking about his special team's prowess, and then little comments about his rush at the very end. They did some good things. That is not what you want to hear out of your second year. like, again, like top 60 pick player that they made an edge rush, right? Like, you want to hear a good thing.

Starting point is 00:17:40 Like, oh, he's taking great strides as a pass rusher. We thought he did some great things. We want to get him out there with the starters every now and then, but it's not happening yet, but he's still working at it. No, it's talking about how tired he was because he's playing special teams, then talking about the special teams ability, and then little comments here at the bottom about his rushing ability. Nothing about his run defense, which I'm glad.

Starting point is 00:18:03 Chris Bowler didn't even try to lie about. that because the run defense was dreadful this preseason. So again, I think this just says a lot about where Jalen Tumala is with his development, where I do agree, like the special team stuff was pretty good. I think he's shown some good things in special teams dating back to last season, also in this preseason, and I'm excited about him as a special teams player. That's not something I should be saying about a guy who was drafted in the second round last season unless you have superstar guys in front of him. Not when you have Art and Key and Michael Clemens in front of it. I'm trying to say something bad about those two guys.

Starting point is 00:18:39 It's just like those aren't two big enough names where they should be pushing a second round pick down the roster. Even George Gumbs Jr., I think, should be pushing him down the roster with how he performed this offseason. And George Gums Jr. is a rookie fifth round pick who was a tight end two years ago in college. So, yeah, I just think this says so much about where Jalen 2 and Malo is. It says a lot about where the state of this defensive line is. And even if Chris Ballard wants to gas up this defensive line saying they have pieces, they have this, they have that, I do think this is going to be their Achilles heel all season long. Unless the Forrest Buckner becomes prime to Forrest Buckner, unless Laotu Latu becomes 10 plus sack Laotu, which are both feasible, but I don't think they're safe bets to make. Unless those two things happen, I do think this defensive line will be their Achilles heel for a majority of the season.

Starting point is 00:19:25 So again, some odd questions from Chris Ballard saying that Jerry Tillerie outplayed anybody is crazy. And then when you're talking about your second year top 60 pick defensive end that you drafted a rush the pastor just talking about how gasty was and how cool he was on special teams. I think that just says a lot about his development here in year two. But coming up, we have some other minor news and notes to close out the show. We're going to talk about some practice squad moves, including waving of a fan favorite running back, some updates on injuries in practice. And then my opinion on Kepenna, Gushiken as well, who I do like. I do like quite a bit. We're going to talk about those guys in just a moment.

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Starting point is 00:21:33 Ballard's press conference. Let's now dive into some roster news and notes. Again, we're still like just under two weeks away from the first game. So nothing too terrifying here when it comes to injuries, but we did have a few players return to practice. Josh Downs was back out there. Rookie guard Jalen Farmer is back out there as well. Alec Pierce was practicing.

Starting point is 00:21:53 Keenan Allen was also practicing as well. I know there were some questions about if Keenan Allen would be back at practice and stuff today, but he was with a full practice. And then Tyler Warren as well was back out there on the field. So some really good positive updates about the question. Colts offensive skill position players. In terms of players who did not practice, A.J. Halsey didn't practice.

Starting point is 00:22:13 Jalen Jones is out of practice as well. And then the two new players as well, Cedric Van Pran Granger and Capena, Gushchukin. Van Prangranger was at practice but wasn't participating, where Gushokin was not spotted at practice. So it appears that he's still on his way over here, or again, there's still some moving pieces with that. So we'll see what their status is as we get closer to game time next week.

Starting point is 00:22:35 but some players to really keep it on. I think Halsey and Jones are obviously the big ones to keep an eye on for this Colts team. Just recently, before I started recording this podcast, the Colts did make some more practice squad moves. Expect a lot of practice squad moves to come and go in the next few days, next few weeks. There's always shuffling at the bottom of the practice squad, and you rarely see, like, one guy stay on a practice squad the entire season.

Starting point is 00:22:59 But the Colts signed running back Devon Booth from the Browns and Guard Reed, Holski, from the Broncos, to the practice squad. And then they released Ulysses Bentley the 4th. And this is a little bit of a shocker. Like we'll see if he ends up getting brought back at all at some other point in the offseason. But I mean, if you would have asked anybody, we all were of the opinion. And you can go up to like Stephen Holder at ESPN.

Starting point is 00:23:22 You can go to any of the Indy Star guys or me or Jake ourselves as well, where we all kind of thought Bentley was in that like 55th guy, 56 guy, like at worth 55th guy or 56 guy. some of us had him on our final roster projections. I mean, gosh, for my money, I thought he outplayed what DJ Giddens had shown, even if Giddens was doing that in limited capacity this offseason. So now Bentley is no longer on the team. Again, we'll see if he gets brought back at some later point. But now running back to Vaughn Booth is the practice squad running back,

Starting point is 00:23:53 so we'll have to see what he can bring. Had a couple nice runs with the Browns this offseason, including a nice touchdown where he spun out a defender at the goal line. So some intrigue with him as a play. player, but again, we're going to talk about it all offseason like Bentley. Probably should have made this team over Giddens, and it is what it is in that regard. Also, I want to talk about Kepenna Gushikin, though, a player that I was very intrigued by in the pre-draft process when I was going through Dane Bruegler's draft guide like I do every

Starting point is 00:24:21 single offseason. I was looking for like the freakyest athletes, like which guys ran absurd numbers and jumped crazy ones and ran really crazy fast three cones and stuff. and Gushiken was one guy that really stood out. He was near like top percentile and 40 time, like all the jumps. And also in like the agility drills too, like his three cone was like 6.77 seconds or something like that. So some really outstanding testing numbers despite being like, I know he's like 5-9, 180, but some really great testing numbers.

Starting point is 00:24:51 And then when you see how he was used in Philadelphia this preseason, you can even get more intrigued. He had like 190 preseason snaps. He had snaps on defense at slot corner at free safety, at three safety, he had strong safety, and then he played a big role in special teams as well, running as a gunner on two of their three games and also operating as a key player on the return units as well. So, Gushokin got a good amount of run with the Eagles this offseason. Outstanding athlete, great closing speed, a good tackler in the open field as well. Man coverage is going to take some time, and that's probably why he was ultimately released by the Eagles.

Starting point is 00:25:25 It's hard to stash a guy who struggles a bit in man coverage, but I think he's got the traits that project well there, so I'm not that. terribly concerned with all that. But I think from day one for the Colts, he's going to be a core four player. He's going to be a starting gunner on this team. His gunner reps with the Eagles were very, very good. You can check out a video on my YouTube channel, just Zach Hicks on YouTube. You can check out a video I did on Gushokin, where I'm very positive about this young

Starting point is 00:25:49 player. I think that he can develop into, like, maybe not the next Kenny Moore or anything like that, but, you know, a good quality nickel to have at the bottom of your roster, who, again, excels on special teams. So I'm excited about Gushikan. I think this is a good acquisition by the Colt. You rarely see a team claim a player who was an undrafted free agent for another team in waived because you clearly didn't like him enough to draft him in this past draft

Starting point is 00:26:13 over other players and you weren't able to land him in undrafted free agency. So it's kind of hard to like pull that off there. But Gushokin had a really great summer. The Colts were high on him in the pre-draft process. They had him in for a visit as well. So a very, very intriguing young player and we'll likely see him. be he might be a game day inactive sometimes this year because they have Edwards and when Taylor Britt comes back this year they'll have him running Gunner but just another good special

Starting point is 00:26:38 team were to have a good developmental nickel corner and if anything were to happen to Wally or Taylor Britt during the season you have a guy who can fill in there and offer some athleticism as well so I like this acquisition I think he's an intriguing player and he also adds to like of the 70 players that are currently on the Colts when you count practice squad and regular roster I think like six or seven of them are from Old Miss University. Like, well, I guess Bentley was just waves, so maybe it's down a little bit. But like Treadwell and Tosh Chambers, and now we have Gushchen as well. So Trey Washington as well.

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