Colts-Commanders: Daniel Jones Can’t Give Washington Extra Possessions

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1:01is not going to happen on Sunday and that is going to determine the week for winter. You are locked on NFL crossover part of the Lockdown Podcast Network. 14 every day. Welcome inside today's episode of Lockdown Commanders Locked on Colts. I am David Harrison, the host of Lockdown Commanders. He is Zach Hicks, one of the hosts of Locked on Colts. This is crossover Thursday and it's brought to you by Fandall. Make this your most rewarding season ever with the Fandall rewards club. Every week check the Fandall app to see what's waiting for you there and on today's this week's crossover Thursday episode. The key is controlling possession and eliminating explosive plays how Josh Downs against the Washington commanders pressure package and David Blow against Lou Anorumo could help shape this match up. But first, other Daniel Jones can protect the football against a very, very fast and aggressive Washington commander defense and how injuries on both sides of this match up are going to

2:03dictate terms. This match up starts with a simple conflict. The Indianapolis Colts need Daniel Jones to stay aggressive without giving the Washington commanders extra possessions while the commanders need to prove that last weekend's take away outbursts against the Seattle Seahawks was not a fluke, but was rather the turning on of the takeaway. Foster Zach talked to us about Daniel Jones, man, the turnovers and why he needs to limit how he could possibly limit it and how important that's going to be this weekend. Yeah, I mean, so far it's been, you know, it's weird. It's been a good start to the season for Daniel Jones, even if a lot of the numbers don't say it. It's just, it's gone against some really tough teams, right? The Baltimore Ravens week one, Kansas City Chiefs and week two Houston Texans and week three and all this pretty much without Alec Pierce, right? Alec Pierce has been out for a majority of the time this season. So it hasn't been as clean of a structure as what it was last season for Daniel Jones. When he was putting up career best numbers and was leading one of the best offenses and football through those first 10 weeks, it has been a bit more of a struggle. And I think in some degree, we've seen him thrive in this environment like he's performed

3:06better against the blitz than he ever has in his career up to this point. But the turnovers are this lingering issue that has not gone away for him to start the year. He had three turnovers this past game against Houston Texans, including an inexcusable fumble with about five minutes left with the Colts up by six at midfield. The Texans were able to go down and take the lead. Now luckily Jones came back and led the game winning drive and the Colts were able to steal that victory. But he almost was the zero instead of the hero for the Colts in week three. So I think that's just the big thing with Jones. Like we are seeing him play more aggressive and play well against the blitz and do more than what he was doing last year. But if the turnovers persist, like you guys saw last week with the commanders game versus the sea hawks, the commanders won that game because the takeaways because they won that turnover battle. That is one of the deciding factors in the NFL. So if the Colts want to continue winning like they did last week, they can't turn the ball over as much as they did. And it starts with Daniel Jones, especially against his commanders defense where they come from that Minnesota Vikings tree. They want to blitz.

4:06They want to take the football away. And they finally did it last week in their upset over the sea hawks. But Jones turns the ball over like he did against a Texans against his commanders team. It could be a loss in London for Indy. Yeah, for sure, man. I mean, the ball is life, right? That's why that's the saying here in Washington. It's not a, you know, nobody know NFL locker room would hear that saying and be confused by what it means or how important that stance really is, right? And Daniel Jones, like you said, me have five giveaways through three games. That is that is completely unacceptable for an NFL quarterback. But the Washington commanders, you know, three takeaways in the one game, three, but that's three takeaways for the season. They didn't have another takeaway in the first two games. And it was kind of weird because I was talking to another meeting member here covering the commanders and was like, you know, when I looked at the beginning of the season and the potential for the commanders to get takeaways from this defense, which is not something they've done very well the last two years with Dan Quinn and, you know, previous defense coordinator Joe was junior. I was like, okay, they can probably get Jalen her. It's he usually puts ball and jeopardy at least a little bit. That press God's good for like one duck a game. You know what I mean? So if you take advantage of that one, you can take away.

5:06And then you look at Sam Darnold and one of the things he did so well last year was protect the football. And sure, like, I don't know if they get it take away against the CLC Hawks and then turns completely 180 on me. They have no takeaways. The first two game, three in the one game. And truthfully, they could have had five. They had their hands on two other interceptions against Sam Darnold to drop both of them. So a really good game for that commander's defense. But of course, the question in relation to the turnover picture this weekend is, was that a one time outburst or was that the faucet turning on? Right? And then, I think that was a great day. Jones, Dan Quinn, we're obviously frustrated about the lack of takeaways coming into week three. Talk about how they come in bunches. Adapte O.A. Talk to us about how they come in bunches. And they absolutely came in bunches. In fact, some of these styles even had another forced fumble in that game that unfortunately was forced and then fell right into the stomach of the Seahawks tie then who was across the goal line. So they got a touchdown on that forced fumble. But it just kind of shows you that they have gotten better at hunting the football, the speed absolutely of that defense. Absolutely matters. Like he pointed out. I mean, that's really how many sacks they get, but how do you affect the football and

6:07stopping Jonathan Taylor and preventing him from having a major impact in this game on the ground is probably kind of the first step to really making this a Daniel Jones game. Unfortunately for the commander side and unfortunately for the cold side, if that pans out the same way, the wash man is run defense has actually been really, really good. So far to start this season. Now on this side of things though, Zach, a name that cold fans are going to be very familiar with safety Nick Cross, one of two key players that did not take the trip across the pond for the washman commanders, along with guard Sam Cosmets, two key starters out of this game. Meanwhile, Frankie Louvue linebacker, Titan, Chica, Conquo, and maybe quarterback, Jayden Daniels in play to play this weekend against the Indianapolis Colts. I'm just going to get this out of the way. I don't think Jayden Daniels is playing. So we're going to operate. I'm operating until I'm told otherwise like it's a Marcus Mario and I would recommend that you on the cold side do as well. But man, Nick Cross is huge because not only is this a vulnerable secondary, we've seen that all week. You all see them so far.

7:08But it's also one that relies on a lot of communication. You talk about that Brian Flores tree, Doron say Jones comes from that tree requires a lot of communication. Guess who else is the defense needs a little bit or a good amount of communication. That Lou and Arumo tree and Zach obviously, you know Lou and Arumo very, very well as a defense coordinator there are the Colts Nick Cross coming from that Lou and Arumo system, communication, aggression, all of it very, very key. Nick Cross being out for this game is huge because of that because he knows how to operate that defense for Doron say Jones. So I from your opinion, you know this style. You know Nick Cross and his abilities to you as you look ahead to this weekend. How big of a loss is Nick Cross in this matchup? Yeah, I haven't really watched too much of Nick Cross in Washington, but I can tell you from last year in Lou and Arumo's defense, he was used as this like just Jackknife all over the defense, right? He'd be in the box once one snap. He'd be on the end of the line of scrimmage on another. He'd be at lineback or he'd be at safety. Like they used him all over the place and his ability to just be this Swiss army knife is what I should have said. Swiss army knife all over the place is what made the most sense for him in his role last

8:10year is tackling his speed all that, but also the communication like you mentioned where being a guy you can play all three levels of a defense moving across the formation. Yeah, it is huge and we know here with the Colts like they try to have a safety be their green dot to start the year and it was a disaster against the Baltimore Ravens. So when that communication is not on point, it can lead to big plays, explosives and easy answers for an offense, especially when you want to work this diverse defensive play like game plan like R2 defenses like to be like the Colts they don't blitz as much, but they like to do these inverted coverages and drop into specific zones and do a lot of like different man looks as well. If your communication is not a point that can really be an issue, but even more so again with what the commanders want to do where you're blitzing at this 40 plus percent rate, you're dropping guys, you're bringing like showing six, bringing four, but you don't know which four you guys are coming. Like you need to have everyone on the same page. So yeah, losing a starter who knows the system can certainly be a big blow for a team.

9:11Absolutely, man. And I think that's a really great point of the use point out like we all think when we hear a grushing, you think, oh, they blitz a lot, but aggression comes in so many different forms. Essentially, aggression means you're attacking the offense and Luana rumo attacks the mental side of the offense as well. I mean, look, man coverage is about as aggressive as it gets for a secondary as well. Chigakakwo, someone that truthfully, I don't really have a beat on him right now. We're so early in the practice week. Don't pay too much attention to the practice report coming out from Washington today because they just arrived in London and literally went straight to the practice field. So it was very much a jog through. So I wouldn't put too much stock into that. But Thursday, Friday, we'll see what happens with Chig. I've already told you I don't think Jayden is playing, but Nick Cross certainly out Sam Cosby and Tyrion Almanz alignment is going to be out for this match up as well. So that's going to be huge coming up to chess matches that can shape the entire outcome of this game. Josh Down, one of my favorite receivers when he was coming down North Carolina, by the way, up against Washington's pressure plan and David Blow trying to keep Luana rumo from controlling the picture post snap. That's all coming up next on Tuesday's episode of Lockdown Colts, Lockdown Commanders, crossover Thursday here on the Lockdown podcast network your team every day.

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12:23Josh Downs gives the Indianapolis Colts a natural answer from when the Washington commanders bring pressure, but Lou Anna rumo disguises can make life difficult if David Blau can't figure it out no matter who the quarterback is this weekend. Thank you for making a locked on command is your first listen of the day every day. Thank you as well for checking out the every day or club the every day or club you get all kinds of perks, bonuses to both episodes, both shows, locked on colds or locked on commanders, whichever one you want to sign up for. Check the show notes below for details on how to do that. We appreciate you supporting each show and being coming apart of each shows every day or club. When we talk about key matchups in this game, Zach Josh Downs is someone who stands out to me one because love them come out of college really kind of hope to the wash the commanders will find a way to get on that didn't happen and I kind of didn't expect it to necessarily happen at the time. But someone who I've been following throughout his NFL career really happy with some of the things that he's been able to do. Of course, he's also the brother of Caleb Downs who I'm in a big Ohio State guy. So, you know, I was a fan of Caleb Downs for years until he ends up going to the Dallas Cowboys. Now it's kind of like hey, bro, you know, I mean, maybe maybe give up a couple plays

13:25here. And then they also have their own podcast, which is really cool. More and more players are doing that. So people can hear from Josh Downs themselves, but Josh Downs against this defense. The defense who does like to blitz like you just talking about and a secondary that maybe hasn't necessarily but been the cleanest when it comes to communication. How impactful do you think he's going to be in this game? He's going to be immensely impactful, especially when you factor in again, there's no Alec Pierce. Tyler Warren's been a little bit slower to start his second season. Josh Downs has emerged as the go to guy for this cults passing attack and especially the last two weeks where they've been under duress a lot against the Houston Texans, even though the Texans mostly brought four when the Texans did blitz. They had Josh Downs as an outlet, but especially against the Kansas City Chiefs when Spagnolo was throwing blitz after blitz at the cults because that has been Daniel Jones's weakness in the past. You know, even going back to last year, pretty much every single metric, Daniel Jones was this top 10 quarterback when he played for the cults except against the blitz. He was more so outside the top 15. He was struggling against the blitz last year, but through the last two weeks, he's 19

14:28of 23 for 189 yards in the touchdown against the blitz. And so much of it has been the most easy answer ever. Isolate Josh Downs. Throw it to Josh Downs. He is your separator. He is uncoverable one-on-one and the cults do a lot of really cool things to get him isolated, whether it's going with the two by two stack and just having him as the inside most guy against whoever it is. He's going to win to the middle of the field because if you're going to bring six guys, you're going to vacate that middle of the field because you're going to be in zero coverage. If you're not going to be in zero coverage, you're going to be in more cover one, they'll motion him into a three stack and they'll let him run those option routes and really just find space against the defense. He is such a cerebral player, but also has great hands, great quickness, and just the ability to get open. So Josh Downs has been the answer for the cults against the blitz. He's also been their answer on third down this year. His target rate on third downs is up to 40 percent this season, which is top 10 among all wide receivers. He has been the answer to a lot of the cults questions throughout this year. I know you guys are coming off a game where you were giving heavy attention to Jackson Smith

15:31and Jibba, right? To make sure he wasn't going to be the guys you beat you. I think Josh Downs should warrant some similar attention, even if he's going to be almost exclusively in the slot. I do think if I were the commanders, the way I would look at this approach is if we stop Josh Downs, we have a good chance to win this game because Downs has been the player. I know he hasn't had goddy numbers, but the last two weeks over 10 targets each game, over 70 yards each game, he has been the chain mover and the big play guy for the cults all at the same time. You know, I can tell you already, Zach, there are commanders fans who just heard everything that you said, like, man, that all makes sense. That all makes sense. Well, did he just compare Josh Downs, the Jackson Smith and Jibba, and there are even going to be some commanders fans who have paused it or not going to listen to what I'm saying right now because they're busy tipped-happening on their keyboard to let you know how ridiculous of a comparison that is, but guess what? I want to make the exact same comparison. So I'm so happy that you made that comparison so that when I make that comparison, it's both of us. So you know what, if you think it's a dumb comparison, we're both dumb.

16:32Now I'm not saying that Josh Downs is Jackson Smith and Jibba, that he's going to be an office player of the year candidate, all that kind of stuff. Although there is potential there for him to eventually someday one day be that guy, and who knows, this could be his breakout season, right? So that is how effective he can be. I agree with you 100%. When I look at this matchup, I think Josh Downs can be that effective in this game. Let's be real here in commanders fans while you have enjoyed celebrating that week three win and I've enjoyed celebrating that week three win with you here on Lockdown Commanders. Let's be honest, if Rashad White doesn't get that second to last third down conversion in the game or if Mark Mario doesn't get that last third down conversion of the game and the Seahawks get the ball back, you're just as worried as I am that Jackson Smith and Jibba was about to do something against that secondary and this game is going to go the complete opposite way, whether it be a game winning field goal or a touchdown. Josh Downs has that ability and I'm with you Zach. I want to see the Washington commanders do some of the same things they did against Jackson Smith and Jibba to try to contain him. Now Jackson Smith and Jibba did end up getting his numbers, but it did kind of come sparingly at first eventually because of the adjustments that coaching staff made there for the Seahawks.

17:36They were able to get him more room and more space to operate, make the Indianapolis Colts make the same adjustments, right? Because quite frankly, Indianapolis Colts coaching staff not known as much or as well for making those halftime adjustments like the Seattle Seahawks coaching staff has been, make them make those adjustments, make the Indianapolis Colts force or find a way to get Josh Downs open by putting bracket covered on him, giving him lots of attention and make the annual Jones go somewhere else with the football while you contain Jonathan Taylor. I think if you do those things, yeah, you might be giving Josh Downs, you can call it premature if you want to, JSN attention, but I think it's very, very important because that's how effective you can be. Luminorumma, we've already talked about them a little bit, can also be very effective as a defensive coordinator. David Blow, coming into his fourth game, Zach, David Blow has shown a lot of potential as an offensive play collar, but what are some of the things you've seen Luminorumma do to other offensive play collars who have potential or have even proven their potential as offensive coordinators that makes you think that he could stop this washmaker's offense

18:39even if Jane Daniels, which I don't think is one, two, but even if Jane Daniels wore suit up for this game. Yeah, I mean, I think the big thing for the Colts is they're still trying to find their identity on defense right now. They've had a lot of rotations and they're still trying to work out a lot of new guys on the field, but one thing that they can rely on at least to disrupt guys that line of scrimmages, they're going to play a lot of cover one man, right? They're going to force your receivers to beat them. If your receivers can do that, then you can find success. The thing is though, they have Sawskarner, they have Mooney Ward, Justin Wall is coming off a good performance this past week. So I do think that this can be a tough matchup for a team, especially if you have to get rid of the ball quickly. No Sam Cosme, maybe you have to account for that if you're the Washington commanders this week. So if you have to get that ball out quickly, you're going to have a lot of press coverage to deal with there. But yeah, last week we saw the Colts go away from what they struggled with in the first two weeks, which was communication on a lot of these things. And Zay flowers was killing them from the slot in the first week as well. So they had to kind of move away from so much man where they were running it like a 65%

19:42rate the first two weeks. They had to bring that down just a little bit against the Houston Texans and play a little bit more. Ben don't break. And I do think that worked well for them and let their defense play a little bit faster. So we may not get the full Luanna Rimo, like mad scientists approach this week because again, they're still working through some things. But I do think they did some good things against the Texans in terms of adding more run blitzes, a more active defensive line. They inserted out of Tommy, what out of Bore is a designated pass rusher. And he is, you guys will see him on Sunday. He is lightning fast with his hands. I mean, he has multiple pressures this year under two seconds. They want to be closer to what you guys are doing with the commanders, what the Vikings do with Flores. But they are a little inexperienced right now. They're still trying to work through some kinks. So they're probably simplifying things. I think it's interesting because we always talk about these matchups like, oh, well, Dronte Jones really knows Luanna Rimo really, really well. So that's an advantage. Well, people forget that Luanna Rimo also knows Dronte Jones pretty well. So I don't know how much of an advantage that is. But also I think that when you have two coaches who know each other very well and Lu obviously

20:44knows that Dronte is given Dave and Vlad all of his notes and all that kind of stuff. And also kind of takes away the little bit of like, how can I trick this guy? Because you do know he's so familiar with me. So let me just simplify it. Like, let me just be who I am and simplify things and prove that your side of the ball can beat my side of the ball. Now, on top of the issues that you said that the cold defense have been having, I think just makes all the sense of the world for Lu to come up with a little bit more of a simplified plan. But in that simplification, allowing his team to be more dynamic if that makes a whole lot of sense. Now, the women in formula on both teams that are both sides of this matchup is going to sound pretty simple, right? Protect the ball. Win the early downs, limit exposes, right? But making the other offense to St. Dresden's game is going to be a way of eliminating some of those shortcuts to victory for both sides. And that's coming up next on today's episode of Lockdown Commanders, Lockdown Colts, Cross Over Thursday, part of the Lockdown podcast network your team every day. And today's episode is brought to you in part by PricePix. Football is fully back. We're about to hit the end of the first month of the season.

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23:46plenty of individual matchups, plenty of storylines, all that stuff worth on but turnovers and possessions can make every single one of those things seem a little bit more irrelevant or a little bit less relevant. Thanks for tuning in to today's episode of Lots on Colts, Lots on Commanders, Keys to Victory, Zach hit us with your three Colts, Keys to Victory, man, and we'll break one of these things down. Yeah, I mean, I always sound like a coach, I guess, in this final segment because I always bring up all the coach speak stuff and it's always like, okay, here are the keys, like wrap up and control the football, but they really are the most important keys. So like I said in the first segment, limit the turnovers. The Colts got lucky last week. They controlled that game for the most part, but when you have three turnovers against a good defense like that, you are lucky to win the game. You're lucky that there was no Nico Collins and you won the special teams battle as much as you did. That's not going to happen week over week in the NFL. So losing the turnover battle three to nothing is not something that you want to repeat. So keep control of the football, control the clock and control the ball because the Colts have had one of the like less explosive offenses in the league this year.

24:49No Alec Pierce, the run games been bottled up a little bit. They have not been overly explosive at all. So controlling the football, converting on third down like they did last week is one way that you can dictate the flow of the game. And then the final key is just limit those explosives on the other side. Make the make the commanders, especially if Jane Daniels isn't playing on Sunday. Make them go the length of the field in 12 plays, 13 plays, 14 plays. I like Mark Smirrod. He's a good backup quarterback, but asking him to be consistently good on every single snap is a bit of an ask, especially for any backup in this league. Even for a lot of starters in this league. So limit the explosives. Don't allow them to get all the way into the red zone on one play. Make it take each place to get down there because then you're more likely to have a botch snap, a penalty, a sack, something that knocks them back and throws off the room in some of the drives. So it's simple. I sound like every coach in the halftime locker room right now, but limit turnovers, control the football and win the explosives or at least limit the commander's explosives.

25:49And I think they have a good chance to come out on top on Sunday. Bobby, listen, you do, you do sound like a coach, right? But that is really kind of that's the essence of the game, right? And it sounds a lot more simplistic than it really is. But I mean, we hear a coordinator song outside, listen, the team that does the best on his fundamentals and hitting their keys and all this off, they're going to be the team that comes away with the same. The team that makes the fewest mistakes. It's almost akin to the team that scores the most points is probably going to win the game, but it's the process of how you get there, right? Which is what you just did. A good job of breaking down a why it matters in this game and yeah, ball is life, man. Like bottom line ball is life. You said it. The wash man don't win that CLC off game without three turnovers. And it's all three. It's not two turnovers. Like they don't win that game without three takeaways against CLC oxen. Some of that is is a hat tip to the CLC ox for proving just how hard and out they really are in this national football league. Like I know the CLC ox are sad that they lost that game and their fans probably mad they lost that game. But I mean, if you're a team that people look at and say we need three takeaways to beat this team, you're in a pretty good thing in situation.

26:50So yeah, for the wash commander, man, they've done a really good job of not turning the ball over this year, only one giveaway this season, which is tied for the best rate in the NFL through three games. And then like they said, their takeaway game just came to life last weekend with three, which now ranks the middle middle of the game. It's like 15th overall, which is pretty much right in the middle of the league. And they need a continual ball. Their offense needs to continue to grow even if Jaden Daniel isn't on the field. That offense needs to continue to show deepens other things. Don't let the New York Giants come in with two weeks of of take, worth of tape essentially because you're not growing your offense while Jaden Daniel is a sideline as they look forward to week five, make them continue to play for anything and everything. And then oh, by the way, maybe you're getting Jaden back in week five and now that we've got to prepare for that and what that could look like. This has continued. All they did better communication wise as the game went on last week. They've done better since they moved Mikey St.R. Still into the nickel. That actually happened midway through the Dallas Cowboys game that I noticed was Mikey St.R. Still moving into the nickel, not getting as many outside reps. And then in the entirety of the Seahawks game, Mikey into playing nickel, which the Seahawks

27:51don't go a lot of three wide. So he ended up playing the fewest snaps of his career. So if you're a Colts fan, thank you. Hey, Mikey is not done great. Maybe Daniels can pick on him. You might be able to, these only kind of probably get about 25, 26 chances to do it in the entire game, though those could prove to be some pretty valuable 25, 26 reps as Sam Darnold showed. And I think the real unique one for me here is that is get Bill a breakout game. J'Cory Croskey, Merit Running Battle, Colin Bill out here. That's his lifelong nickname. And we've steered into it. If you look at his stat box from last week and if any Colts fan out there are stat scouts because Zach, I know you and Jake don't, you look at your like rough game, like rough game. Maybe he's not going to be this breakout running back that people maybe thought that he was going to be. But what you don't see in the stat box is the 48 yard touchdown, 48, a pretty sure it's 48, it's 40 something yard touchdown that got called back because of the legal formation penalty that had nothing to do with the play. So that play was a very clean play. Show you what Bill is capable of. You hammer it, you hammer it, hammer it. Eventually you break one out. This time you need to see the wash commander let that breakout run.

28:55If it comes against any of those Colts defense stick and help the Washington commanders control the clock, control the ball because yes, it's cliche. Yes, it's said probably almost every single week, but it matters. And for the Washington commanders getting in jacory crock, Merit that jab, jab, jab, jab, against that Colts defense and eventually find that upper cut, but let that upper cut land and make it stick, make it count. I think it's going to be a huge key this weekend, Zach. Yeah, absolutely. I'm also going to add now Josh Downs versus Mike. I didn't realize Mike you moved inside to the slot again. Yeah. I was a big Mikey Sanders still fan coming out of the draft. I know it's been a rough go with Washington, but I think the Colts, especially if they know that hey, the commander is going to bring some blitzes, they're going to get out into those three wide. They're going to make sure that they are getting Mikey on the field and then they're going to isolate Josh Downs with him. So if I'm the commanders, again, you want to bracket Josh Downs there or maybe travel somebody else with him, but that should be a really good chess match to see how that matchup goes down. Yeah, that's, that's honestly, and this is a spoiler alert for a lot of commanders. I'm like, that's going to be the matchup Josh Downs versus Mikey Sanders with him.

29:56I'm like, ah, 20, listen, 26 naps. Mikey still gave up three completions, gave up two touchdowns. Not great, but I'm like, you man, I was a big Mikey fan coming out of Michigan. I still have faith in the young man and what his potential can be. There's some things you got to clean up. Let's see if this could be the week, but if it's not, that's absolutely a matchup worth watching that you just hit on right there. Next time on Locton Colts, Locton commanders, we will continue to dive into all these matchups, everything going in to this weekend, happening out here in London. If you want to be even further, Locton Colts, Locton Command, I check out the Locton Colts or Locton Commanders hit channel or both. Why you're at it, mind as well. Your daily hit of a espresso on the team that you love and maybe the enemy of the team that you love. So you find that on YouTube, you find it wherever you're listening to podcasts every day or it's for both programs. As we do every single day, we want to thank you for coming through again today for this crossover Thursday episode. Locton Commanders, Locton Colts, part of the Locton podcast network, your team. Every day.

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