FIREPOWER: Indianapolis Colts’ Jonathan Taylor, Tyler Warren STAR in Thriller vs. Denver Broncos

FIREPOWER: Indianapolis Colts’ Jonathan Taylor, Tyler Warren STAR in Thriller vs. Denver Broncos

Your Indianapolis Colts are 2 and 0 with two wins in the conference and a divisional game coming up this week. I don’t know about you guys, but this Colts team just seems different to me. 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, thanks for tuning in and making us your first listen of the day. This is your daily podcast covering your Indianapolis Colts, part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day. What is up everybody? This is Jake Arthur. I am the Indianapolis Colts beat reporter for Roundtable Sports and today we are obviously talking about this Colts win over the Denver Broncos 29-28. What a thriller. Again, it moves this team to two and 0. They are first in the AFC South. Suck it, everybody. Uh, it’s been a while since number one, they could be two and 0. It was 2009 the last time they were 2 and 0. Payton Manning was the quarterback. And it seems like forever ago that they were ever in charge of the division. So, after this week against the Tennessee Titans, uh, hopefully for them they are three and 0 and then can kind of form a little more cushion there. So, we’ll uh we’ll certainly see how that goes. Uh all right, so let’s go ahead and get started here. So, this was obviously a very exciting affair, a thriller, I would put it. Um the Colts h had a little bit of an edge early on. They they controlled things up until about early in the second quarter and then just kind of the meat of the sandwich that is the game totally got away from them. Denver controlled most of it. They never really ran away with it. Uh but it was definitely Denver controlling that thing uh throughout most of the second, third, and and really even into the fourth quarters. Uh late game heroics by the Colts. They really really needed it. Uh Cam Binham came up with his second interception of the season, his second in as many games and of course had an awesome celebration to go with it as well. Uh and after that, Jonathan Taylor helped take over. uh he racked up a huge gain after that to get the Colts really keep that momentum going. Uh helped him get some points on the board. They had a couple field goals late in the game as well. Uh Jonathan Taylor, that was a vintage Jonathan Taylor game overall. 165 yards rushing, over 200 yards total, a touchdown, had a couple huge gains. Uh Tyler Warren continues to just be an excellent, excellent addition for the Colts. Uh he is off to an incredible start not only just for like the Colts and rookie tight ends uh but for recent memory with NFL tight ends in general. He is really off to a hot start and uh pushing the record book statistically already. Uh Michael Pitman Jr. for the second week in a row uh has been a great you know he he has shown up and and looks rid of that back injury that plagued him last year. Other than that, third down drop late in the game, but we’re not going to talk about that. Uh, but yeah, the Colts got some contributions from all over to really make this thing happen. Uh, kind of the name of the game in the first win they had against the Dolphins was complimentary football. They dominated offense, defense, special teams. Uh, this one there was no domination. They had their good moments, but it did take all three all three phases coming up and and doing well. Uh the offense had nearly 500 yards, so there’s no worries there. Like the offense is going to be all right. They’ve been on fire. Uh Denver is an awesome defense and the Colts just figured some things out and they did what worked and good thing for them that came by land and by air because Daniel Jones had a huge game as well. Uh so that that was really good. Obviously Spencer Shrader uh knocking in all of his kicks. Uh let’s go into this lateg game sequence real quick because this almost wasn’t a win that we were talking about and it was due in large part to this this final sequence when the Colts got down into Denver’s uh side of things. So there’s like three minutes left. They’re backed up in their own territory. They get into Denver territory and Shane Styen is just calling a really really conservative game. I think the only pass they had on that drive was like a third down to Alec Pierce when they really needed to get it. Uh, and they kind of almost had to pass, but other than that, they were just running running. And Denver knew that. They sold out to stop the run. and Jonathan Taylor had some decent runs early in the uh in the series, but you know, they they obviously kind of stow stonewalled him there at the end to the point where they were going to have to rely on Spencer Schrader to kick a 60-ard field goal when he’s never even attempted that before. His careerong was in the 40s. Like this was it was it was a ballsy move by Shane to to really approach it that way. Uh, and then of course, if you haven’t seen it by now, the Colts did have to go for that 60-yard field goal and Trader misses it wide, wide right. Uh, but then there is a leverage penalty on the play uh for Denver right up the middle. They kind of press down on uh on the long snapper and tried to jump up above him to again get the leverage to block it. Penalty advances 15 yards and then Shrader is true from 45 yards uh to give the Colts that 29 to 28 victory. And uh it again, I don’t know about you guys, but how I said at the top, this team just feels different. Uh the Colts haven’t always won these games, especially against like really good playoff caliber teams like the Broncos. Uh there were several moments throughout the game where I was like, h well, this is just kind of how it goes. Like that this is going to come back around in the end to to favor the Broncos and that that’ll be it. You know, the Colts had a hard fought game, but they won’t wind up winning. And that’s that’s not how it happened. you know, there were some penalties that didn’t go the Colts way. Now, Denver would argue that there were some some things officiating wise that went the Colts way. Um, but in general, I think we’ve all kind of got some gripes there, but in general, this team does just feel different. It it doesn’t feel like there is one side of the ball that’s just awful and holding them back. It doesn’t feel like there’s a ton holding them back. Now, the injuries on defense I do feel are somewhat of a concern. uh you know Charvarius Ward and Latu Latu I think they were sorely missed out there uh so you want to see them get back as soon as possible uh Xavier Howard obviously we’ll talk about that here in a moment uh but that was a game with plenty a warts for him but they’ve won both games now in totally different fashions again domination against Miami and now in this matchup it was gritty they had to claw back and come back and form a fourth quarter comeback victory they got a second lease on life there at the end where they miss the field goal and then they have to nail it from 45 yards out. Um and just in the locker room after like this is this seems like a team that truly believes and uh you know we were we were kind of asking around the locker room after the game a couple of the veterans that have been there and and seen some crap and and gone through it with the Colts uh for lack of of a better term they’ve gone through it and now like do they really feel like they’re turning a corner? Does this team feel different? Uh, so I’m going to go ahead and play just a quick couple examples from Kenny Moore and Jonathan Taylor talking about if they do feel like this team feels a little bit different. You’re one of those guys that has been here through it all. Does it feel like you guys are turning a corner? Does it feel like we’re turning a corner? Does this team feel different? We feel we feel really great. It’s We’ve done a lot. Uh, it starts with Shane though. It starts with Shane. Shane has put us in in a position uh player-wise, teamwise, foundationwise uh to win games like this. Two and0 start since 2009. The energy, the vibes of this team. How do they compare now to your other seasons that you’ve been here? Um I just think that there’s a little bit something extra. It’s a little bit something extra. And of course, we know um we’re honoring Mr. Ers and and of course we know he’s looking down and we know that um we have a little bit of of that blessing on us. But it it’s just about that focus, that emphasis each and every single week and understanding that we’re on a mission and for us to be able to play for one another, offense, defense, special teams, playing that complimentary ball, that’s how we’re going to win games. Yeah. So, I I think a lot of us see it. I think the players see it like they are kind of playing for something much bigger than themselves this year. Obviously, the memory of Jim Ersce, but this very much feels like a brotherhood and like a team that really has each other’s backs. I think you could see it out there. Uh even talking to like some of the younger guys like I talked to Tyler Warren after the game and he’s like just to to be able to do this kind of stuff and and see like Quentyn Nelson uh and his reactions after the game how happy he is with this stuff. It just kind of makes him feel really really accomplished. So, it feels like all these guys are are buying in like uh what what you could say about Shane Styen is whatever you want to say about him, like the guy is consistent as it comes and he always brings the same message and the same energy and then when you have the right players around, the right coaches around for everything to finally come together, that’s when that message can really take hold and push this team forward. Uh so, Stiken is a guy who I think can coach a bit and lead a team. Uh it has to take the right people around him. again as coaches and players and it looks like the Colts might finally have that right cohesive group of people uh there in the building. But obviously it’s it’s still a young season. There’s a lot more to happen. Uh so we’ll obviously talk way more about that as things develop. Uh but coming up guys, we talked obviously about Daniel Jones, some of the offense. Let’s talk some more offense. Uh let’s get a little more uh detailed into this thing because this thing’s humming. They’re they’re arguably the best offense in the league and there’s a lot to talk about here. This episode is brought to you by Price Picks, the daily fantasy app where making the right call can actually pay off. You and I make decisions every day, but on Price Picks, being right means cashing in. With Football Back, Price Picks is the simplest and fastest way to get in on the action. 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Like that’s not his superpower or his defining trait. Uh, he’s a guy that that helps win the chess match. He sees what the defense is doing and knows how to correct uh the offense whatever whether it’s the play call or the alignment or the protection to fix that to account for what that defense is doing get them in the right spots get through reads quickly and get rid of the ball quickly and he is he is mastering that like whatever him and Shane Styen have going on right now it’s really really working. Uh it obviously all starts up front with the offensive line. They crush things once again against another really aggressive front. Uh I mean Miami it doesn’t look like it but Miami has a really talented group up front with all those pass rushers. Zack Syler inside Denver even better honestly. They got Nick Bonito, you know, they they had uh Zack Allen out there as well. They got a deep group of guys and this protection really held up just one sack on Daniel Jones. Uh, and I don’t know what he could have done on that one because they brought the house and, you know, just the the play was dead basically as soon as it started. Uh, and the Colts again on the ground 167 rushing yards. So, it’s not like they’re just really excelling in one particular area. They’re they’re imposing their will in the run game and opening up holes for Jonathan Taylor. And they’re keeping Daniel Jones clean and giving him time to throw. The offensive line is is really really good. We talked about it last week of of all the things that we saw against Miami that, you know, it’s going to go on to be legit or it could go on to be fool’s gold throughout the season. If the offensive line was going to prove to be one of those things that was legit, that was going to probably lead to this being a pretty good team, at least a very good offense throughout the year. Uh because obviously we know what Jonathan Taylor can do, but if you give Daniel Jones time to process things, obviously it looks like that should be pretty fruitful. Uh talking about that run game a little more. Again, this was a vintage performance by Jonathan Taylor. 165 on the ground and then 50 through the air. Uh had a couple of 10 yard runs, had the 40 plus yard catch, the 60 plus yard run there near the end of the game to to really get the momentum that they needed. Th this guy, it’s it’s un he’s underappreciated somehow. Um I I go through the the Colts send out a uh kind of like a a stat book, a record book after every game talking about different milestones and stuff guys reach for a few years now. Jonathan Taylor has been flying through the Colts record books. And it’s time to start having this conversation now about is Jonathan Taylor the really like the second most prolific Indianapolis Colts running back of all time behind Edin James. I I think we’re pretty much getting to the point where that’s true. They’ve had Marshall Faulk. They’ve had Eric Dickerson. Those guys entire body of work with, you know, the Los Angeles Rams and everywhere they’ve been, that obviously has to be taken into account. But as far as achievements with the Indianapolis Colts goes, I think Jonathan Taylor probably stands only behind Edan James. I I I think it would be really hard to argue that at that point. And we’re only two games into this season, he’s leading the NFL in rushing right now. He gets another rushing crown or finishes top three, top five again. Like this this guy’s needs to start getting a little more of his flowers. I think we’ve honestly maybe just got a little bit of like excellence exhaustion with him. Like we’ve gotten used to seeing him just be so good all the time that it’s almost expected and it’s it’s almost not appreciated at this point because it’s like a foregone conclusion. So Jonathan Taylor obviously the heartbeat of this offense running behind a really good offensive line. Uh Tyler Warren on fire, four catches for 79 yards. He’s doing everything they drafted him to do. Uh he was unsuccessful on his one uh one carry, his fullback dive there for the attempted uh attempted first down there at midfield. Uh but he got it in the week one. Uh no, this guy is stretching downfield. He’s creating a ton of yards after the catch. Like he had that one later in the game that created what like 10 or 15 extra yards. Uh so he has been every bit as advertised. Uh the receivers I I feel like they got a full compliment from the receivers. Michael Pitman Jr.’s has been excellent again out outside of that one drop on third down. Alec Pierce has had some really really valuable catches. Had that 40 plus yard one. Uh he caught a couple of first downs against Patrick Certan on on Sunday as well. Uh so that’s Certan is widely considered the best quarterback in the game. He’s the reigning defensive player of the year. Uh and the Colts have got a couple guys that beat him throughout the game. I’m I’m not going to say Certan didn’t have a good game. Uh but the Colts receivers definitely showed up and did their part against the premier corner uh in the NFL. Josh Downs got a little more involved. Uh he converted a few first downs, got a play downfield as well. Uh so really liked what I saw from the passing game there. Um let let’s talk about the officiating a little bit, at least on the offensive side. I I I watched the game again today and I just this would have been an even more explosive affair if you got any one of the calls for 80 Mitchell when Jones targeted him 50 yards down the field and Certan gave him a nice little hug there. Uh which influenced the play I think. Uh and then later I think it was the Colts next drive. Alec Pierce was uh kind of grabbed there in the end zone. Would have been a 15 yard touchdown. So, I didn’t want to not mention that. I I’m not blame things on officiating guy and like the Colts won anyways, but you know that there those guys numbers would have looked a whole lot better with those touchdowns included, especially AD Mitchell. And you know, let’s talk about AD Mitchell real quick. You know, it’s he’s only got a few catches, I think three or four catches so far. Um, and I kind of think, you know, even if this guy gets like 30 catches this year, that’s not much. But if the effic efficiency is better, then I think that could still be a pretty successful season for him. I think it looks like he’s calmed down a good bit. Um it it’s it’s not he’s not like fighting against himself and the balls are mostly being delivered to him pretty accurately. Uh there was another deep shot that Jones took for him uh later in the game just overthrew him. He just put everything into it and it was a little too far. Uh, but Mitchell’s winning his matchups, winning his one-on- ons, and he’s catching the ball. Like, that’s it’s simple. It’s a very simple concept, but he’s doing it. And, uh, I think we’re seeing a little bit of growth out of AD Mitchell. That’s definitely a very fresh development for this team. Uh, and then I guess my last gripe here is Red Zone. Uh, they were only two of six on Sunday against the Broncos, and that’s after they were three of six against the Dolphins. Uh, so it’s starting to become a little bit of a trend. I think defenses know they want to target Jonathan Taylor, so they’re loading up a little bit there. Um, and whereas in between the 20s, Daniel Jones has been a lot more aggressive, I do think he’s very cognizant about where the ball is going in the red zone and maybe doesn’t want to try and fit them into as many tight windows. Uh, I I’m kind of feel like that’s where the issue is at the moment, but again, the the season is young. Uh, they still have some things to work out. I mean, Tennessee’s got a pretty decent defense uh coming up this Saturday, but or Sunday, but I I think there are some opportunities there. If they get downs more involved, if they get Tyler Warren more involved in the red zone, I think they can maybe finally crack that one. So, all right guys, let’s talk about this defense. It was not their strongest day. Definitely not what they did against Miami. Uh but they did step up and make some plays when they absolutely needed them. All right, this show is sponsored by BetterHelp. You know guys, we all turn to some funny places for advice sometimes. Your barista, your barber, maybe even a random stranger in the bathroom. Maybe you go to the park and talk to the birds. Whatever you want to do, that’s fine with me. But not everyone is the right one when it comes to real support. That’s why BetterHelp is here. 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Uh they need Batu Latu back, but not only that, but he needs to come back and be a star, the star that they wanted him to be and that they think he is because our our fears seem to be confirmed. They’re going to be very very reliant on how he does. That’s going to be how their pass rush goes. Deorest Bucker is going to do his thing in the middle, but they need someone from the outside. Uh and that was very very evident against the Broncos. Uh in the passing game, it a lot of it did not go well. I I liked what Denver did from their perspective with a ton of cross routes and you know mesh and stuff like that. Uh they really made things difficult. Um a lot of yards after catch opportunity as well. Took a couple shots. Uh had that one to Troy Franklin on the left side when the play kind of broke down and coverage busted a little bit. Um but they picked on Xavier Howard. Um there’s really no way to really spin it. Like this was truly a a bad game. Uh he had that one series where he had three penalties within five plays. I thought two of the three were good calls. I wouldn’t have called that first one against uh when he was guarding Courtland Sutton and they were still I think in the high red zone. I think that one was really a bad call, but the other ones were legit. Um he had some missed tackles as well. Uh obviously had some catches given up. He gave up that touchdown to Marvin Mims early in the game. And uh I had asked Zack late in the week, I think it was our Friday show, our our final pregame wrap-up. I was like, would you have would you stick Xavian Howard just on Courtland Sutton for the matchup alone because you don’t want him matched up with Troy Franklin or Marvin Mims because those guys can fly. Uh so matching him up against Courtland Sutton and Pat Bryant, guys who maybe aren’t like speed demons, was probably the better case, but you know, they’re they’re short-handed in the secondary. Uh Mai Blackman was out there for the most part for uh for Tarbarius Ward. I probably would have liked to see Jonathan Edwards a little bit more, especially when things started rolling downhill for Howard. Uh I don’t think it would have hurt immensely to get Edwards out there because they were really starting to pick on Howard. Uh so that was that’s definitely something to keep an eye on. Uh, you know, this we’ve heard so much about how Louis Anarumo and the coaching staff keeps guys accountable, but if Howard keeps this up and teams keep picking on him and they’re giving up touchdowns, he’s getting penalties, they’re going to have to replace him with somebody, uh, it can’t just be he can’t just be out there because he’s a veteran and they know and trust him. That’s going to that’s going to have a weak link out there. And surely Jonathan Edwards as a rookie can maybe grow into something more than what Howard uh would be giving you. But again, one one bad game. We’ll see how it goes against Tennessee. That’s not the best most explosive receiver core in the uh in the league. So, we’ll see how if he could bounce back a little bit. Uh someone who someone else who kind of highlighted or lowlighted I guess in this one uh Camron. Now, I don’t know for certain yet. We’ll talk to Louisumo tomorrow, but that short touchdown to Adam Troutman, the Bron Broncos tight end, it did look like Mcgrron was just lost in the woods in that one. It looked like Troutman may have been his man. Um, but Mcgrron just did not seem to know who to follow in that one. He definitely looked a little confused. Uh, I also noticed he had a missed tackle later in the game on a really good Denver run. So, not the strongest performance by Mcgrron. He’s been rotating in at the will linebacker spot with um with Joe Botchi. So maybe more looks for Botchi and then whenever Jaylen Carl eventually gets back, you know, work him in there as well. Uh the run game, run defense, we were a little concerned about that coming into the year and it appears that might be a little bit of a struggle. Uh they gave up 118 yards on the ground on Sunday. Uh a good yard per carry for the opponents in both games about five five plus. Uh it just, you know, it looks like guys are getting stuck on blocks on the line and then the linebackers aren’t necessarily fitting the lanes and they’re kind of getting stuck on blocks as well a lot of the time. I haven’t noticed it being like a whole big bevy of missed tackles necessarily as much as guys not getting off the blocks in time as the ball is approaching them and getting beyond them. So, yeah, they’re they’re just going to have to work on getting into into better spots at the right time and then shedding those blocks or it could be kind of a long day for uh for the run defense. Now, with that all the bad stuff out of the way, a couple defenders I really wanted to shout out because I thought they had just damn near elite games, Nick Cross and Grover Stewart. So, Cross was everywhere it felt like. So watching it up in the press box, you know, with the the eye in the sky, you could see him flying around and he was around the ball a lot. But when I rewatched and I saw like the TV copy, I was like, he truly was around the ball the whole time. Like it it looked exactly how he did last year where he was one of the most consistent defenders they had throughout the season, but an amped up version. like he was there to break up passes, hit guys as soon as the ball got there, uh make tackles on ball carriers, make tackles on screens, uh hit hard, like he was such a tone setter, and I think we’re really really seeing the continued growth of Nick Cross into a star player for this defense. Uh and then Grover Stewart, I just thought he was an awesome awesome run defender. Um I I was looking at uh the numbers for both Cross and Grover Stewart after the game on Pro Football Focus. So uh they have a metric called a stop, which is basically just a failure and enforced from the defense on the offense. Like a play that a defender made that caused an offensive play to totally fail. Uh they gave f Okay, so six I think they had six tackles for cross and five of those were considered stops for him. Uh and then all five for Grover were considered stops. So they they basically said those guys were wholly responsible for enforcing a ton of failures by the Broncos uh offense. And th those numbers essentially verify exactly what I think we all saw with our own eyes. Uh those two guys just had absolute star performances in a game that really needed it because a lot of a lot of stuff on defense was going wrong. So then you needed a couple guys to step up. Uh obviously Zyra Franklin came up with a couple big plays, couple big hits. Uh Kenny Moore had a couple rough reps in coverage. Uh but he did have a big hit where he he kind of killed a screen play as well. And then Cam Binham, of course, coming up with an interception when the Colts absolutely needed it most in the red zone. And then we we got to talk about kickers. Zack might be getting out of talking about kickers on this one, but Spencer Schrader, brilliant. Obviously, you want him to miss that 60 yard or make that 60 yard, not get bailed out with the penalty. Uh but other than that, the guy has been perfect on the year. Nine of Nine on field goals. That was four of four in week one, five of five on Sunday against the Broncos. Uh he’s also made all of his extra points as well. So the guy is perfect in kicks that have counted this year. Um and again the the Colts took a big risk on that letting Matt Ggo a veteran who they probably weren’t as comfortable with anymore because he had gotten unpredictable. If you’ve seen him with Washington, it’s getting worse. Um but I mean Shrader was a rookie undrafted free agent last year who had bounced around to three teams. uh and now he has he’s absolutely steady Eddie for the Colts and uh so far looks looks like a good answer for uh the kicking problems they’ve had since Adam Venter retired essentially. So that is it for me today guys. Again the plan is for Zach and Ben Boris aka Colts film room uh from Twitter to break down Daniel Jones game tomorrow on the show. So that one will be really really good. Make sure your uh appointment TV for that one. You won’t want to miss that. Again, thank you guys for watching us today. Now, for your next listen, you’re going to want to go ahead and check out the Locked on NFL podcast. Tyler Madman Roland gives you a shot of espresso to start your football day while Tony Wiggins takes you into the barberh shop for the smoothest breakdowns to end your day. 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