Of course, remember, these two teams will meet again in two weeks in India.

So, Ryan, should we start taking the Colts seriously now.

And that's talking to people who maybe didn't take him seriously before.

I mean, I think you take the coats as seriously as you took him before this weekend.

I think we've reached the time in the season where we don't have to go up and down with every win and every loss.

This is who the coats are.

They play very good defense.

If you don't pressure Philip Rivers, he can throw the ball to open people.

And if you're gonna shank punts and allow punch to be blocked, they can score points.

But this team is is still limited in the past game.

If you put pressure on Philip Rivers, he will turn the football over and they can be scored on if you understand how to attack them.

And so I still think they're right there with the Tennessee Titans, but not on the level of the Kansas City Chiefs, Pittsburgh Steelers or the Baltimore Ravens.

And we still have to remember they have a quarterback that can throw a Hail Mary and that can't do a quarterback sneak.

So it doesn't matter if it's too long or too short.

Philip Rivers can't do it, and so that's still scares me.

E hey, really wouldn't do the sneak.

Last night.

I was watching laughing at home.

Ryan.

I agree with everything you're saying, But I was yes, by Indianapolis tonight.

I was impressed by the roster and just how well Chris Ballard, the G m of the cult, has put this thing together because yes, they have.

Ah, a few superstars DeForest Buckner, Darius Leonard.

But up and down that team, there are just solid football players on both sides.

The bond.

You saw them contributing last night, guys.

Your undrafted like no de Niko a tree.

Grover Stewart didn't know guys were still named Grover in the year 2020 But apparently that's happening.

Guys from this year's draft, which is looking really good, right?

Like you know, Michael Pittman obviously made some big plays, of course, um 19 behind and Julian Blackmon from this year's draft.

Phenomenal player and a him.

Heinz emerged as a running back.

My point is this.

They don't have to be awesome across the board.

They just need to be solid.

And this team is solid.

They don't make stupid mistakes, and sometimes it's better.

It's okay to get a bunch of B pluses somewhere, my Korean mom, as at home, shaking her head.

But I think the courts are a good except no way you could get that.

That's good for me.

That's good for me.

That ain't no meaning.

Great.

That's great for me.

B Plus B plus average would have been the highest average in my family's history.

Listen, y'all, this is the point, E.

Believe about what I believe about the Indianapolis Colts is.

What I saw last night is that they have toe win games like this and it won't be ah, block point for seven.

It won't be a shank field goal for 17 yards.

This is we all know what this is gonna come down to.

This is going to come down to How well can Philip Rivers perform against teams that's going to stretch and threaten his defense.

That defense is elite now.

They can play at a very high level.

But we saw when the Baltimore Ravens and Lamar Jackson got it going in the second half that the Baltimore I mean the Indianapolis coach could not contend offensively.

They could not keep up.

So my level of concern for India.

I'm along the same lines with run.

It's about the same because it's really going toe all boil down to quarterback play.

I believe they have guys that can get open.

I believe Ali Cox is a matchup nightmare.

I think t y can.

Come on.

We see Paschal playing well, but Philip Rivers is going to have to be the difference, and I don't know if I'm telling anybody anything new.

That's what the hell they signed them to do.

They signed Philip Rivers, put them over where they could.

They could potentially go.

Yeah, but Marcus is exactly right, and Mina is right at the same time.

That's why I tell you about my teammates.

This team two years ago felt like they had the type of roster could continue to build the type of roster that kept them that they were a quarterback away.

That's why they were so hurt when Andrew Luck decided to retire because they felt that they were great everywhere and they had the quarterback to get them over the hump.

They Brexit wasn't that guy, and I think they're gonna find out down the stretch here.

Neither is Philip Rivers.

All right, I'm gonna be handing out report cards at the end of the show.

By the way.

So so far a plus.

Mina a minus.

Marcus and I would say, a minus two Ryan, because your camera just broke up right there.

But we'll see if you guys have time to get through report cards in before the end of the show.

I am tightens a playoff team, man.

They are right on the border there.

And obviously, as you saw early on, their chances were hurt after last night.

But the problem is, unlike the Colts, they're not solid.

Across the board, that defense is full of problems and special teams.

We never talk about special teams because nobody seems to care and it's not fun.

But guess what?

It's the third phase for a reason and special teams can lose you a football game much like it did for the Titans last year is, Well, yeah, Ryan, what do you think about the email?

That's right.

That's supposed to be Ryan.

But he was enjoying me, not going.

E was listening so well, I don't know.

I think I think when you look at the Titans, they they're deficient, that they're almost showing themselves as frauds, right, that the team that we thought they were early on in the season we haven't seen of late, whether it's the Pittsburgh still a loss, a loss to the Cincinnati Bengals and now the Indianapolis Coats.

We looked at Mike Grable's teams and thought that through the three phases of football, they would at least be good everywhere.

That was that Patriot way.

That was that tough Mike Vrabel coaching.

But we haven't seen that in the last few weeks.

It seems like they have a formula, and if that formula works, they can win.

But with defense playing this way, they're gonna have to doom or offensively.

And I don't think that this team is built that way.

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