Josh Downs on the Colts new look offense and his big expectations for Jonathan Taylor

Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz and Caroline Fenton are joined by Indianapolis Colts WR Josh Downs to discuss his expectations for both the Colts offense and running back Jonathan Taylor.

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Shane Stein is an offensive-minded head coach.

How was his addition and how did it help you as an offensive player, especially navigating so many changes at the quarterback position?

Yeah, I mean, coaching, like you said, an offensive coach, he kind of just shoots it straight to you, telling you what he wants.

He shows us a lot of examples of past guys, past greats doing it, and then he helps you implement that into your game, and then yeah, I mean, obviously he’s coming in here.

He’s had a group of great quarterbacks and he’s able to put them out there, develop them, and let them go ball.

So I’m excited to see this season.

Daniel Jones has been working hard, had a great camp.

I’m excited to see what he does.

Is the world ready for the Jonathan Taylor bounce-back season?

It just feels like it’s primed to happen this year.

Well yeah, I mean, the thing is he had a 1400- yard season last year, he had a crazy, great, sneaky season that a lot of people don’t even realize.

He had like 1,400 yards, and he still, I think he missed 3 games or 2 games, so if he didn’t miss those games, he might have had 1600, 1700 yards still.

So, I mean, I just think he’s building off the last season and just gonna take it to a whole new level.

So I wouldn’t even say it’s a bounce back.

He had 1,400 last year, which a lot of people don’t do.

So I mean, I’m just expecting him to keep going.

See Josh, this plays directly into my hands because on this show last week, I picked the Colts to win the division.

And everybody’s just giving me a lot of grief for this.

It feels like it’s outside the box.

So back me up, brother.

Tell the world why everybody is sleeping on the Colts this year.

No, I mean, obviously the, whole situation with the quarterback, you know, people might not think we can get it done, but I just know that we’ve, we’ve put the work in.

We got a lot of skill in this building, and we got a great quarterback room and I’m excited to see what we do because I think that we’re just as good as anybody and I really believe your prediction is gonna be correct and we gonna, we gonna back your word.

That’s what I’m gonna say.

So yeah, they, they’ll see you in a week.

Absolutely, and I think so much of the part of the formula for championship teams is chemistry and it’s relationships in the locker room.

What is that chemistry like with you in the wide receiver room?

And I’m looking at last year’s numbers, you, Alec Pearce, Michael Pittman Junior, you all got your fair share of the rock.

So what is your relationship like with them in that entire receiving room?

Man, this receiver room, we’re so close.

I ain’t like.

We joke around, play around all day with each other.

We like, we really like brothers.

I say that like we got, we got a great group of guys.

I’m close to all of them and everybody’s intertwined with each other.

We go out to eat every single week.

We have a great receiver coach who has a great relationship with all of us as well.

So I mean it’s all love in that room.

There’s no selfish ambition in there and I mean, yeah, I’d love to see all my guys eat, and I mean it’s the same that goes for them to me.

So at the end of the day, who, whoever is getting the ball that game just just ride that hot hand and keep going from there.

Everybody check out the podcast.

Obviously, I can’t wait to listen to it myself.

Downs to Business is the podcast.

It’s Josh, it’s Caleb.

It’s two guys that can tell you more about Paul than most of us will ever know.

I really appreciate your time.

I appreciate you hanging out.

Best of luck this season.

When you guys win the division, come back, hang out with us.

Remember, I called it first.

That’s all I’m saying.

I’m taking my victory lap early, man.

Hey, yes, sir.

I appreciate you and yes, y’all tuned into the Downs to Business podcast.

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Josh Downs on the Colts new look offense and his big expectations for Jonathan Taylor

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