Full Transcript for Colts players Charvarius Ward, Mo Alie-Cox & Caden Curry!

game. I got a lot of talent left, a lot of skill set left to give to the game, to the team, to a the organization that believed in me. And I think I'm gonna come out this year praying, praying I stay healthy and get back to being Mooney. 00:04:50 Speaker 4: Did you ever get to the point Shabarius word where you had decided that you were done and then you had to talk yourself back into it. 00:04:59 Speaker 5: Yeah, I was very close to that point. I didn't only think like my career was over, I kind of damned it, like everything was over. Like I was in a real dark place. Like I didn't say, I feel like I was my life of that one was over, bro, because it felt like everything was dark, like a dark cloud over my head. I didn't have any hope of optimism for a long time. But obviously may I mouse back. I'm smiling now, I'm happy. Now, I'm in a good mood. It's good vibes right now. So yeah, man, I'm ready. 00:05:26 Speaker 4: Here's what I want to get to on that, and I know you're a football player, and we want to talk football and it stay two of camp and everything else. But your story is one of a resilience, and it's a resilience partially just based from within you. 00:05:40 Speaker 3: Right, yep. 00:05:41 Speaker 4: There are people listening right now that might be an accountant, that might be a math teacher. They're not a professional athlete, but they also feel that same cloud, that same darkness. 00:05:52 Speaker 3: What do you say to them? 00:05:54 Speaker 5: For me, personally, I just speak from personal experience. I had to realize like that life is just bigger than like completion or incompletionent or touchdown or interception. Like I had to realize that life is bigger than football. So my purpose doesn't rely on my job or what I do. You know, my purpose relies on the people that I love, you know, great relationships, like having great experiences, bringing love to people and joy. That's what I feel like my purpose was. So me, I'm thinking to myself, like how can I, you know, make my son smilew How can I make my fiance happy? 00:06:24 Speaker 6: You know? 00:06:24 Speaker 5: How can I make my mom happy? 00:06:25 Speaker 1: Like? 00:06:25 Speaker 5: How can I make them feel love and bring joy to them? So that kind of like I had to like find my purpose in life. And now I think my purpose is to like just loving, bringing love, giving love and being loved and just you know, trying to bring out the best in everybody around me. 00:06:39 Speaker 4: And I think, you know, let's let's be honest here also your daughter. What you need to make your daughter happy? I mean, I know in a physical sense you lost so but yet you have to still be driven by that. 00:06:50 Speaker 5: Yeah, some days, you know, some days I wake up and still have some doubts about you know, if I want to get up and go out there and practice, I might not have a lot of energy. But I say, if if I feel mentally, you know, physically and emotionally, like I'm gonna go out there and making

my daughter smile while she ain't heavey, you know, so that kind of be my motivation sometimes like I'm doing it for money, or I'm doing it for Moon and Junior. I'm doing it for my kids. So that's just bringing them smiles, bringing them happiness, and bringing them joy. So she kind of my motivation. 00:07:14 Speaker 3: Now. 00:07:14 Speaker 5: For a while, it was hard to like have her as my motivation because every time I thought about it, it was painful, like it was tears. I was crying. So I couldn't have her as my motivation for a long time because I mean, it hurt, you know, even when I saw like anybody's baby girl, like I get emotional like dang, like I missed my baby. But now I'm thinking, like, you know, I self did it. I know that I could control what happened to her. 00:07:34 Speaker 6: I don't. 00:07:35 Speaker 5: Nobody could control what happened to her. So I just, you know, look like I can't control everything. So just be happy. 00:07:41 Speaker 4: And you were, obviously, and it's appreciated, I think by a lot of people, pretty transparent about the emotional journey that you went through, right, and then obviously with the injuries. What about now just in terms of aside from that emotion, but from a physical standpoint, would you how do you not become shy of contact? 00:08:02 Speaker 3: Man? 00:08:02 Speaker 5: Like I said, But I just gotta keep faith and just be positive and be optimistic. I can't go out there and think about what if I get another concussion, you know, I just cross that bridge when I get there. I got to tackle the right way. I gotta take on blocks the right way. I switch to him as I gotta new him, And now that's better for concussions. So honestly, the concussions, they're not That's not on my head anymore. Like I just look at it like this out of my control, Like I can't control it I from get ancussion or I can go out there and play perfect and still end up with a concussion, and I can't be mad at it because you know, sometimes it's just by chance he happens. But I mean, I'm just excited to go out there and just so so the coach fan base. What I can do a healthy mooney one hundred percent of money, what I can do. 00:08:38 Speaker 4: You've got an interesting mix around you of youth and experience, right, I mean, but yet some of them are new faces. How do you, I guess, give us the overall look of your defensive backfield and just the guys around you, maw, do you scout it out? 00:08:53 Speaker 5: I think we deep, man, we got a lot of good corners. I think we got at least six, maybe seven corners that can actually like start in the NFL, like even from Jaye you know, tas saws to me, Makay and Jaylen Jones been to start in the league, Like Justin Wiley, he was on track to start last year. Before he towards a cl and I think we got a lot of depth and it's gonna bring out like the best in each one of us because we all fighting to prove ourselves every day. 00:09:17 Speaker 3: Just Wally being a young guy, and. 00:09:20 Speaker 5: He played like a veteran though, play like that and. 00:09:22 Speaker 4: Listen, you know this, but they were very Chris pallor Changstik and they were very high on the right and I think we could see that. Did you have to counsel him through and any and I know you were dealing with your own things at that time, but just the coming back from injury and having that confidence to get back, have you seen it come back fro him? 00:09:40 Speaker 3: Yeah? 00:09:40 Speaker 5: Man, I think he a naturally confident guy. Like even as Ricky we came in last year, he wasn't scared, he wasn't side, he wasn't timid at all. He was out there playing fast and like the way he carried hisself every day like he carry hisself like a true professional. So I think Wally gonna be ready, very confident, very talented, professional young. 00:09:56 Speaker 3: You're a native of Mississippi, right, Oh for sure? 00:09:58 Speaker 4: Six on one Okay, So I'm gonna guess and that's where exactly in Mississippi. 00:10:03 Speaker 5: Southwest Mississippi. So we went our south to Jackson, Mississippi, about sixty miles south. 00:10:08 Speaker 3: To Jackson to the Kiln, Mississippi. That's what Brett Forest. 00:10:11 Speaker 5: Oh, he's from Hensburgh. I think he's from Hesburgh. 00:10:14 Speaker 3: He's staying collegiate. 00:10:16 Speaker 5: He got house in Heddleburg, so us him showed me. 00:10:19 Speaker 3: So that area. 00:10:19 Speaker 4: I've been down in that area, right, So that's I'm thinking, what like about a nine. 00:10:22 Speaker 3: Hour drive from wrong from no, from here from here to where you're from? 00:10:26 Speaker 5: I think it's more like, I don't know. I never made a drive from the Mississippi. 00:10:29 Speaker 4: So if you had to drive from here to Mississippi in a small compact car with one cult teammate, who would be who was the best person to drive. 00:10:37 Speaker 5: With one teammate? Yep, somebody's gonna keep me entertained the whole time. Can I get two options? I'll probably say saucy, very entertaining and so is very funny entertaining or Grove bro Grove like a big family family guy, heavy at very playful, very very funny. 00:10:53 Speaker 3: So probably pull over and cook out. 00:10:55 Speaker 5: Yeah, put over against some good foods so yeah, eat a sauce and grove for sure. 00:10:58 Speaker 4: Okay, So now I want to other guy that would be the most annoying because it never shut up? 00:11:02 Speaker 3: Who would it be the. 00:11:03 Speaker 5: Most annoying because they never shit up. I'm not gonna put none of my teammates on the spotlight that I love all my teams. 00:11:10 Speaker 3: That's a good answer right here, that's a good answer. 00:11:12 Speaker 4: What if you guys done in the last you know, it's a It's a different world now you know you've had these two We only see what's on the field, what has been accomplished here so far in the first two days of cam UH. 00:11:26 Speaker 5: I just think we had we got really really good energy,

real good energy this year. It's better than what it last year. We was playing fast yesterday. Today was kind of like a little it was the average day. But I think we got a lot of energy and optimism amongst the whole defense, in the entire team. That's what it feels like for like everybody see like greatness ahead. You know, That's what I feel like. And I think that's what we're gonna show. 00:11:47 Speaker 4: How long does it take you to to understand where everyone is? And by that I mean I don't mean the way Luna, the way lou Anrimo has it designed. But for you to know, like with shaus Gardner or with Justin Wally, you know when they're going to break a certain way, when they're going to retreat on a play, when you've got to step over and help out in a coverage. 00:12:10 Speaker 3: How long does it take to get that timing? Oh? 00:12:13 Speaker 5: I think it may take the whole inside trying to come like we can have it down, but it's always something we can get better. But one thing I know for sure, for certain, I know sauts gonna always be in a right spot to courverage. 00:12:23 Speaker 7: Man. 00:12:24 Speaker 5: I know why they're gonna be in a right spot to coverage. 00:12:25 Speaker 7: Man. 00:12:26 Speaker 5: I know cam By don't gonna be in the right spot to help me out if I ever need help. Whoever started his safety, if it's Hasty or Hunter or whomever done it. The knowings, I know they're gonna be in the right spot. So I can trust trust those guys and lean on those guys to be in a right spot, and that allow each and everybody to take more risks and make more plays by calculator risks. At calculator risks. 00:12:45 Speaker 4: Are there things when you have a major concussion. M dumb question here? Is it just time that you have to wait through for that? I mean, do they give this their medication? I mean, how do you how do you treat that? 00:12:59 Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not really any medications for the brain. It's time. Like it's a lot of vision exercise you can do with your eyes because you know your eyes part of the brain. You can work on your ballots because sometime you get a concussion, your equilibrium getting knocked off. So I worked for a long time, but I mean I was a severe like I was vomiting a lot, cross eye, couldn't really hear a loud noises. But mag and the training stuff like they helped me out really really well. So I mean I feel like me again. 00:13:21 Speaker 4: So when did you feel I was just gonna say, when was the first moment you felt like you? When's the first moment when I think it was out there and you said, okay, I'm back. 00:13:27 Speaker 5: It was doing probably doing a bye week right before Kansas City, Like it was a perfect time, I think, And there was like five to six weeks from the concussion. So during that by week last year, I wasn't scared to come back any time before that, I would have been scared to come back, scared to go out there and play. I went out there and heard a few bags before that. I didn't get dizzy or anything like that, So I was pretty. 00:13:46 Speaker 3: Comfort you talked to any teammates about. 00:13:49 Speaker 5: Man, I talked to everybody. I talked to retired players, teammates. I talked to a lot of people, and even man. I talked to some of my family. They were telling me, like to retire, like Bro. They were like, Bro, you made your money, you got just fed me, Bro, you gotta walk away from the game healthy. But I didn't look at it, and that I looked. You know, I made a commitment. I love the game. You know what I'm saying. I love the game. And like I said, I still think. I thought I had lots of givet. So I came back and took it to. 00:14:11 Speaker 3: Me, how much more do you have to get? How many? 00:14:12 Speaker 5: How much more? I know for sure I want to fulfill this contract that I signed with that the coach, so this season and next season, and I feel like I gotta just take it, you know, day by day though you never know, Like now I do kind of think about like walking away from the game healthy. You know, obviously I'm not scared to go out there and get hurt, but I do want to walk away from the game healthy. 00:14:31 Speaker 4: So who gave me the best advice from? From game players? Still retired player, you know, just I. 00:14:37 Speaker 5: Think the best advice probably came from one of my former coaches. One of my former coaches, he said, he was all my agent. They gave me kind of like the same message, like if your heart still in and you still feel like you can play, you know, go ahead and finish. Like it was a point last year when I got thinking cushion, like I was thinking about like hanging it up, like I was seriously. I was like very serious and honest about that. But that was like, man, just try to fit and you know, just try to finish this season and out of the season we can revisit and rethink about what you want to do and like out of the season. It took me a while to like to really think like, Okay, I'm going to play again because I was leaning toward retirement, like I promise you I was, but like I said, man, my heart still in it, my heart still in it. I want to go out like on a very high note. You know, I want to make my daughter and my family. My family probably isn't even the whole Coast organization and fan base. 00:15:22 Speaker 4: Okay, day two of school here, Basically, what's been so far the best thing and what is the thing that you most hope to accomplish moving forward here in this camp? 00:15:30 Speaker 5: The best thing? I think like just being in my in my group, amongst my group, the DB's man, everybody cheering for each of everybody, playing fast, and we got really great energy in the secondary, Like we got a hands on a lot of balls yesterday, we got to pick yesterday, we got to know the intercept from today. So I just think we've be getting a lot of hands on the balls and as a group going forward, I just want to continue to get better, continue to make more players, and play with a different

swagger that we haven't had from the Coast for a long time. 00:15:54 Speaker 4: People think seven to lucky number? Is that your lucky number? Or was that randomly a side seven? My mom just got kids, so I just took I took what number? 00:16:02 Speaker 3: You something? 00:16:03 Speaker 5: I'm sticking out of the seven. So I'm kind of like the father figure for yeah. 00:16:08 Speaker 4: So basically, so we don't want to you don't want to admit this, but her favorites probably the seventh right seventh. 00:16:13 Speaker 5: So I was already to go to the time. I was because I never got in trouble growing up. I was a straight A student, so I was and I was a mama's boy. 00:16:20 Speaker 3: What was your favorite subject? Math? 00:16:21 Speaker 5: I'm really good at math. Now I'm a reader. I like to read now, so probably English now. 00:16:26 Speaker 4: Okay, fact I was an English major. So although it took me thirty two years to graduate from college, I took care. I was not a straight A students. Yeah, okay, last said, I know you've answered it before. But where does Moody come from? 00:16:37 Speaker 5: I don't know. I really don't know. Everybody from Mississippi, what apart MISSIPIPI one from got nicknamed. So I'll give you a story. We got a guy that his hustle, I don't know his government name, but his hustle was like cleaning shoes, like five to ten dollars. And guess what his nickname was, Shiny shoe Shine. His nickname was shoe Shine. So everybody kind of get it. 00:16:56 Speaker 3: So you were dropping your pants ever word, it's a kid. 00:16:59 Speaker 5: That's probably what it was. As bias the minds. She'd be like, I don't know, so they just gave it to me ever since I was a baby. 00:17:03 Speaker 3: It's kind of cool. 00:17:04 Speaker 5: Though, right, yeah, it was mooney Man growing up though. I just took the man off and I just go by moon You ever had moon pies? I love moon pass alright, I love. 00:17:12 Speaker 4: They're figuring this south right, you go to any gas station, arc Colas and moon Pies. They're all about it, all right. Shabariusward number seven, Lucky number seven. 00:17:20 Speaker 1: Is the best of the best from today's broadcast lineup. Instant Replay continues in a moment on ninety three five and one oh seven five the Fan. 00:17:37 Speaker 2: This is instant replay this morning. I'm a fan morning show. 00:17:44 Speaker 8: They won a training camp just wrapped up. I think he's the answer to a trivia question. I might ask him this, Moiley. 00:17:51 Speaker 9: Hawks, Are you the longest tenured offensive player on this football team? 00:17:57 Speaker 2: Yes, he said that, so we're. 00:18:02 Speaker 7: Depends how you classify it, because I was practiced squad my first year, but that counts. I guess sometimes they write nine years in the league when this is really my tenth year. So you know how. 00:18:11 Speaker 9: That did you participate in training camp. 00:18:13 Speaker 7: Yeah all right, so yeah, I'm the longest, and then I

think she was probably. 00:18:17 Speaker 9: Second right, And I'm trying to think what Luke Rhodes, maybe it looks the longest. 00:18:20 Speaker 7: Ten your player he was here before us. He was a linebacker, so eleven years he was here, Paghana. 00:18:25 Speaker 8: Do you ever go back and watch twenty seventeen training camp film with Mowley Cox. 00:18:30 Speaker 7: I don't really go back and watch camp film because I got hurt, like the third day I tore the DELTOI looking at my ankle. But I do go back and watch like some game film from twenty eighteen twenty nineteen. I'm like, bro, it was like what it was? What was I doing? I was getting it done, but it would look so ugly compared to like my technique and stuff now, So sometimes I get bored and go back and watch over them. 00:18:51 Speaker 10: Well, I mean to give you a little credit here, Mo. You were coming from basketball to football, so now ten years into this thing, what do you think continues to allow you to have success when you're on the football field. 00:19:01 Speaker 7: At this point in my career, I would say just being available and keeping taking great care of my body, like when I first got in the league. I would get to be so tired after like a work day. I wasn't putting that extra work to like make sure I was at one hundred percent going this game, and you look at a massage and stuff like that. But now I do like hyperbaric red light massage twice a week and different more mobility stretching and stuff like that, just making sure I'm available. And I think that also helps me with my technique and stuff. And then I would say, like, because coach my tiny coaches goes like, it's crazy, you're moving better now than you wear like three years ago, and stuff like that, and that's when I really started incorporating all that stuff into my routine. 00:19:39 Speaker 3: More often do you. 00:19:41 Speaker 8: I guess off season wise and maybe you're just getting to it right there, But how would you say your off season has changed ramping up to a season from twenty twenty twenty nineteen to twenty twenty six. 00:19:52 Speaker 7: I would say keeping myself more fresh, and that I don't get right into it when we're done. Normally, before I used to only take two three weeks off and then go right back into working out, but now I give myself at least six weeks at six Sometimes sometimes I start March, but this year I started at the six week mark because last year I finished with turf to so like I wasn't even able to do all that. But this year I feeled my body feels way better just starting starting a little bit later and then ramping it up through OTA's and that post OTAs prep. That six week prep is when I really went crazy, like ran every day every Friday, hills or beach work on and stuff like that, because you know, coming into camp you want to be in the best shape is possible, so you could just focus on football. 00:20:33 Speaker 8: Knock on wood, your availability has been outstanding really throughout your career. Do you think that is something conscious that you have put into? Obviously there's a little bit of luck, but like, is there something conscious you point to for a reason. 00:20:45 Speaker 5: For that shrewd? 00:20:47 Speaker 7: I would say my toughness. I mean, because there's some stuff I probably should not have played through, but I did. 00:20:53 Speaker 9: Like the hardest thing you played through hernia. 00:20:55 Speaker 7: I had a hernia one year. It's probably on an injury report with like a hip injury listed all your No one knew I had a hernia. Another one I had a broken thumb. So I played with the cast, but that was the year Jakobe was starting. I think when Andrew retired. I broke my thumb. We played a Thursday night game, had the surgery on Friday, and then I didn't miss any games that year. Different things like that. So I mean, knock on wood. The last two three years, I really haven't had anything pop up, which has allowed me to not miss practice and different things like that. So oh I forgot, Yeah, but I kind of play in my shoes, so I just played. I could play with that one. But like the hernia, you gotta run with it, so you feel it every time you ran. And I always tell people that's probably my most painful injury because you could rest and as soon as you work out one day, it's back. So it's like it doesn't really go away unless you get surgery on it. 00:21:42 Speaker 2: That's crazy. 00:21:43 Speaker 10: And that's the voice of more Cocks joining us here on the Fan Morning show. MO, You've been with a lot of talented tight ends alongside you in your room. I'm gonna ask you to rank them. But we look at Tyler Warren going into year two. What makes him different? 00:21:58 Speaker 5: Shoot? 00:21:59 Speaker 3: I would say. 00:22:02 Speaker 7: For such a young player, his mental capacity to handle what's thrown at him and then to decide for different things on the field, Like you could just tell he's just a smart player. Kind of reminds me of Jack Doyle with just a little more quick twitch or stuff like that, but up up up top, he has it all. And then I think that allows him to do stuff on the field. Like you can see sometime he catches the ball, he doesn't keep going this way because the pursuit's coming this way. He turns back, breaks a couple tackles. And I would also say his toughness like that, dude's toughest nails. He probably hurt his ankle like second or third day of camp, and me being a vet, I'm like, bro, we need you for the season. Man, just relaxed, chill, but he battled through it and practiced every day and then played every game and stuff like that. So just his toughness and his. 00:22:44 Speaker 8: Mental I had funny to clip out the quick twitch more than Jack Doyle. 00:22:48 Speaker 9: We need to clip that out and some of that. 00:22:51 Speaker 7: A after Jack all the time, man, But I do want to. 00:22:54 Speaker 10: Follow up on that, and I heard from a scal this was probably a few years ago

during the combine. They were saying, okay, outside of quarterback, they thought that tight end was the hardest diction to learn going into the NFL because you're learning two positions at once. You got to be basically an offensive lineman a blocker. You got to be basically a receiver as well. So in your mind, what allows you to have success if you're a tyler one, if you go back to when you were young learning how to do both when you're required to do both at the highest. 00:23:20 Speaker 7: Level, I would say just a lot of film study. Definitely watching a lot of film. But I always say, you don't get better or comfortable until you actually get the reps on the field. So I mean allowing him. You know, he came in and was with the ones. Immediately you mess up, going We're not really mad that you mess up because we're all learning at the same time, but it's like not making that same mistake twice and stuff like that and that. Like me, I had a white board because I didn't play any football at all, so it's harder for me, harder for me to grab the concept. But I came in with another rookie. It was me and Darrell Daniels at the time, and we lived in the same apartment, so we would go we would have the whiteboard to draw to play and then draw like write the play name, and then you have to draw the whole concept and things like that. So I would say it was easier to learn the pass game because the run game is a it's always changing because the fronts and the IDs and things like that. So I'd say the run game is much harder to grass in the past game and then so it's really getting those reps doing the run game, so the walkthroughs and but I think also were having coach Tom Manning in the room. He's a former teacher, so he hits every single coaching point. We don't get our meetings early at all. Meeting ends at seven thirty. We're getting out at seven thirty, sometimes a little later. So having him in the room definitely helps everybody tremendously because he doesn't go into a game without covering every single detail at least more than sometimes two three times. And then we have our notes that he writes for us and we look at that game day and Saturday night and stuff like that, so he has us prepared always. 00:24:44 Speaker 8: That's the voice of MOLEI Cox and don't let him tell you otherwise. The longest tenured cults offensive players with us here, Yeah, Young on the Morning show, We James and I love basketball, and we have debated this quite often the show. So we're gonna go to the basketball the NCAA tournament. Moiley Cox to ask this question. I need a point guard through center, starting five out of this ninety man roster right here. 00:25:11 Speaker 9: We have had this debate, we have, and I think feel like we've differed. 00:25:15 Speaker 8: I can hear your teammates chirping in the locker room about this endlessly. 00:25:20 Speaker 9: I think I've talked to you about this. 00:25:21 Speaker 7: I have, but now we got a bunch of new people, so I haven't seen the new guys too. 00:25:26 Speaker 9: All right, well, looks pencil yourself in. 00:25:29 Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm gonna go I'm gonna go four. 00:25:31 Speaker 9: Okay, you're the four. 00:25:33 Speaker 7: I'm gonna go free at the five. Blake, all right, Blake was a pretty good back. 00:25:40 Speaker 9: I believe a quarterback in high school. Blake freelance athletic. 00:25:42 Speaker 7: We watched some of his basketball tape. Jim Bob always put some tape on. I'm gonna go, oh, I'm gonna go aar at the three. 00:25:50 Speaker 9: Ka to Athletta, you got it. You need somebody, but mos scouring the practice field. 00:25:56 Speaker 7: All right, I'm gonna go j Jones, j Jon could hop Jayleen Jones, Yeah, Jayleen Jones at the two see point guards, tricky man. 00:26:05 Speaker 9: I've seen Riley's high school highlights. 00:26:07 Speaker 7: Actually, I'm gonna go Riley at the one okay dunk and everything. 00:26:11 Speaker 9: Well, you got some size in that line up there right as. 00:26:15 Speaker 7: I've seen as clips. He he looks pretty good up there. 00:26:17 Speaker 9: Some of your past teammates was t Y Hilton as good as people. 00:26:19 Speaker 7: Say t I wasn't bad. He could he could make shots. But on the actual basketball court, it wasn't crazy, but he could make a shot. 00:26:29 Speaker 10: What I tell you, k whenever you hear anybody say it wasn't bad, it wasn't good. 00:26:34 Speaker 9: I don't want that compliment. 00:26:38 Speaker 7: Jacoby. I would say former teammates Jacoby or Krye Willis were probably the best ones. We were like when we were younger. We would go to the La Fitness that used. 00:26:46 Speaker 1: To the best of the best from today's broadcast lineup. 00:26:49 Speaker 2: Instead. 00:26:49 Speaker 1: Replay continues in a moment on nutties three, five and one oh seven five, The fan This is instant replay earlier this afternoon on a ride with JMV. 00:27:10 Speaker 2: He was outstanding here in high school. 00:27:12 Speaker 11: We know that to be true at Sinnegrove, the pride of Greenwood of Ohio State, and a selection in the spring NFL draft by the Colts. 00:27:22 Speaker 2: Let's welk them on board. 00:27:24 Speaker 11: Kayten Curry, who joins us now the Andy Moore Automotive Group plotline, Kayden, thank you for the time. 00:27:28 Speaker 2: How are you doing great? 00:27:31 Speaker 10: Man? 00:27:31 Speaker 6: Thanks for having me out here? 00:27:32 Speaker 2: My brother walk us through it so far? How has it been on me? 00:27:35 Speaker 3: Hell? 00:27:35 Speaker 2: Media? Two days deep into this process so far, But how has it been? 00:27:40 Speaker 3: Yeah? 00:27:40 Speaker 6: Two days, four nights. I mean it's been great. 00:27:42 Speaker 12: I mean just getting in here, getting settled in, obviously trying to make it home as quickly as possible. 00:27:47 Speaker 2: And it's been great. 00:27:48 Speaker 12: I mean, getting to meet the guys even more, getting closer and tighter with them, and just going out there

and doing my thing, playing the sport I love. 00:27:54 Speaker 6: So can't complain. 00:27:55 Speaker 11: Right now, does it make it any more special because you landed with your home town team. 00:28:02 Speaker 2: There's definitely something behind it. 00:28:03 Speaker 12: I mean, obviously I not know what it is until later on or right now. I mean it could be little, it could be big, but I know there's something behind it, and I know it's just all God's blessing, and I just got to make the most of it, come out here every day and compete. 00:28:15 Speaker 11: Yeah, did you have to pinch yourself when you first heard that they were going to draft you back in the spring of the drafting? Goll Wow, you got to be kidding me right here? Was that the destination you thought? Or might there have been another destination for you at that time? 00:28:28 Speaker 12: Ever since I saw that three one seven call call, alrighty, I knew, uh, I first saw it was a prank call, but after it I definitely, uh, just kind of it all sank in at the same time and felt I blacked out for about three minutes. 00:28:41 Speaker 6: It wasn't real. 00:28:42 Speaker 12: And I mean after it all sudden and done, I mean, it's definitely just such a surreal moment I got to take in every day. 00:28:49 Speaker 11: Kat and Curry joins suddeny Andy Moore Automotive Group Plotline Training camp at drop Blight Grand Park up in Westfield and going on right now, I'm curious too. You have met every single challenge at every level and probably have been told in the past. Yeah, you know what, I don't know if this is going to be for you and you've proven people wrong. Is this just another kind of rung in that particular ladder of trying to get to where you want to go. And really it seems like the environment in which you thrive a great deal as a part of. 00:29:19 Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, obviously I'm not going to shy away from competition and battles. I mean, you got to practice, You got to make mistakes to get them corrected. 00:29:28 Speaker 6: You can't make the same mistake twice. 00:29:29 Speaker 12: And I feel like that's why I do such a good job at and just being a great teammate. Obviously, you want to be the guy that everybody likes being around and just making sure you take all the advice you can get, be a sponge as I've been hearing around here, and just soaking it all up and really just making the most of it every day, taking one day at a time, and just working aside as I possibly can. 00:29:47 Speaker 11: All right, now, you're gonna have to hand the old man some advice here if you wouldn't mind. So I'm not mistake free. I made mistakes all the time, and then I compound those mistakes by making them again. So how do you how do you compartments, lize mistakes and then move on from them to not make them again? Because to me, somebody like me, Kayden, that seems to be a special skill. 00:30:10 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:30:10 Speaker 12: I mean, obviously I still make mistakes. Everybody's human, but uh, it's just I mean from a football aspect, it's the mental reps. It's the reps outside of practice, it's the reps in the meeting room. It's just making sure that you keep going over until it's kind of engraved in your head. And obviously it sounds a lot of easier said and done, and then you got to actually be the one that's going to go out. 00:30:30 Speaker 6: There and do it. You can say a lot, but are you actually going to do it? 00:30:33 Speaker 12: So that's really what I kind of go at, and just making sure that I get my extra time in and uh, just praying. 00:30:39 Speaker 2: Are you always prepared? 00:30:41 Speaker 11: Have you been a guy that not just in sports, but just in all facets of life. Do you always feel like you're somebody that's going into whatever situation it is prepared. 00:30:51 Speaker 12: I'm always thinking about the worst before I go out there, and then obviously preparing for the best. You gotta see both sides, and you got to see how you want to see it. And I kind of got a man, that's what you want. And you also got to be prepared for things to go wrong, and then that's when you kind of have your backup plan and obviously you don't want to go to it, but I mean it's always got to be there at setting Stone, just so it's ready, Kayden. 00:31:11 Speaker 2: Where do you get your competitive gene? 00:31:14 Speaker 12: I love to say for my parents, but it's also from God too. I feel like that's kind of my special ability. He gave me just to keep going no matter what and just to embrace the grind. But I also give it to my parents and my brothers. My brothers especially growing up I was the youngest. They definitely gave me the beat down in the backyard on the basketball court and just for a football and everything. They made sure that I was the youngest and that I knew every day. 00:31:36 Speaker 11: I often thought this that it benefited the younger kids that are playing when you get knocked around by the older dudes, And that's why when I play basketball as an old dude, we play with the younger guys as well, and it seems like they get better just by playing against an older group, even if that older group has no chance of being as good as the younger person. It always seems to be beneficial when it comes down to competition. 00:32:00 Speaker 12: Oh yeah, I mean, if you're the young guy, then you can't compete with the older kids. You're not playing, so you had to step up and you had to be out there practicing, getting those extra reps just to. 00:32:07 Speaker 6: Be able to play with them. 00:32:08 Speaker 12: So my brothers always have so many friends over and they'd be doing basketball tournament, so I'd be out there two hours before and get my shots out of making sure I wasn't letting the order hit the bigger kids down. 00:32:17 Speaker 6: So I had to make sure to hit my shots too. 00:32:19 Speaker 11: How big was Eric Moore in your life? You're high school coach at Sine Grove. I have a great deal of

admiration for him. He knows that too, and every player, a former player I talked to of his, basically says the same thing. How would you describe your former high school head coach? 00:32:34 Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean just from the beginning kind of when I went in to play football at Centegrad at the high school level, I was still kind of a baseball oriented guy. I thought that was my past, and he kind of just showed me the light. He showed me what it definitely needed to take to get to that level, and he just showed me how to embrace it and love the game, and just from how hard a summer workouts are. But I mean, obviously you start you hate it, but when you get done, you definitely see the benefits and see why you do it, and you see why it's so important to get out there and just do it every single morning. And just the way that he kind of mentally gave me the game of the life in life and sports. He taught me how to be a man. Obviously going through high school wasn't as big as it is going to college, but I mean he definitely made sure that I was college ready and definitely just was prepared and just going into any situation with the most and maximizing the most out of every single day. He's definitely somebody very important in my life in the early stages and definitely one of the strongest men in my foundation. 00:33:31 Speaker 11: By the way, when you hit four hundred foot bombs in baseball, people are going to view you as a baseball player you realize that, right. I've heard the stories because Rick Clark has had the tape measure and he's measured your home. 00:33:45 Speaker 2: Runs and he's told me foot bombs. 00:33:47 Speaker 12: I bet he's playing great music while doing. 00:33:50 Speaker 11: It way way too loud, probably and inappropriate at that too. Kayten Curry's joining us something anymore Automotive group? 00:34:01 Speaker 2: How much has Patient's been involved in all this too? 00:34:03 Speaker 11: And because of your preparation at Ohio State, how do you feel about going into your rookie season with the Colts? Because you did wait your turn in Columbus and as we saw, it paid off big. You're really betting on yourself in this and it paid off for you. How do you get that patience and then how do you also take that patience to the NFL level? 00:34:27 Speaker 12: I feel like it's a different I mean, in college, obviously, you know you have four years to kind of get it done. You know, you have your freshman year to kind of learn, your sophomore in junior year to kind of grow, and then your senior year to be dominant. That's kind of where I was kind of looking out of going into college. But here in the NFL, you definitely have to just they're not looking for patients. You got to be urgent every single day. You got to earn your spot. I mean, there's only fifty three people that can go, and there's only fifty three people that can play, So I mean you got to make sure that you make the most of every rep that you get and just minimize the

mistakes. You can't make the same state twice. And obviously you got to grow as fast as possible. Obviously the older guys are going to help you along the way and they have more knowledge than you. So you just, like I said before, it's got to be a sponge and just embrace everything that's around us. 00:35:11 Speaker 2: And uh, I. 00:35:12 Speaker 6: Mean really just just that grind. 00:35:14 Speaker 12: I mean, being patient is so many different ways to it, at the mental aspect of the physical aspect. 00:35:19 Speaker 6: I mean, truly just. 00:35:21 Speaker 12: Doing as much as you can every single day to make sure that you're the best version of yourself and just fighting for it every single day. 00:35:26 Speaker 11: You get a lot of high school fans, a lot of people you grow up with that have checked you out up there. 00:35:30 Speaker 2: The first couple of days a process. 00:35:32 Speaker 6: I'm getting, I'm getting everything. 00:35:33 Speaker 12: The past two days, I've heard kids yelling I'm from North Central. I'm from Westfield. 00:35:38 Speaker 2: You beat me, you ran me over. 00:35:40 Speaker 6: I'm like, guys, on just a game, it's whatever. 00:35:44 Speaker 2: I'm getting a lot of it right now. 00:35:45 Speaker 12: I'm getting a lot of Fernando haters at me. 00:35:47 Speaker 6: Right now, I'm getting. 00:35:48 Speaker 11: No, you're not getting for You're getting Mendoza haters because of that hit the Big Tent title game. 00:35:54 Speaker 2: Wow, that still comes in direction. Huh. 00:35:57 Speaker 12: I just I just keep telling them, I'm just hey, I'm gonna I'm gonna make you some good memories here so we can just. 00:36:01 Speaker 6: Wipe them, wipe the past. 00:36:03 Speaker 11: Well, Dady fans, that was a hell of a hit, and he was the first one to say that that was an incredibly clean hit. But well, that's a signature for you. You created a signature moment for him at the same time too. 00:36:16 Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean it definitely was a two way street. I mean, he's such a great player, and uh, I mean I wish nothing but the best for him. But uh, it was on our it was on our game plan. I mean Coach Patricia told me, he said, if you guys want to beat these you guys you got to take that quarterback out. And uh, I guess I took it very literal and had the opportunity first play. I mean, it wasn't it was definitely. 00:36:37 Speaker 6: Uh. It was a hard hit, but I feel like it was. 00:36:39 Speaker 12: Clean and uh, I definitely made sure check in on him the next couple of plays down in the drive. I mean, had those first couple of plays of the game. Everything's just the drainines going. So did you check you checked in on during the game. Yeah, down later that drive. I mean, obviously he went out after that. I was gonna let the let this, let the medical staff get their time with them. I'm not going to try to interfere. 00:36:59 Speaker 6: During all that. 00:36:59 Speaker 12: But when he came down later down the drive, and made sure to

check in on him, just to make sure he's knows that I wasn't trying to do it. 00:37:06 Speaker 6: Blatantly and dirty. So I was just making sure have. 00:37:08 Speaker 2: You talked to him since that at all? About that. 00:37:12 Speaker 12: I saw him at the combine, But that dude, come on, I first picked he's famous, so I gave him his his little area, given time to just be himself, and uh, I mean hopefully later on we're going. 00:37:23 Speaker 2: To see each other. I gotta love it. 00:37:25 Speaker 11: Though all those people said you ran me over, you ran me down, and you tell that's that's great. 00:37:30 Speaker 2: That is awesome. 00:37:31 Speaker 11: I didn't even think about that dynamic, the local dynamic, because of the way and the level on which you played around here. That's that's pretty awesome. It's got to be gratifying as well. You got to laugh a little bit, don't you, because they're all going to be rooting for you here really soon, you know that. 00:37:44 Speaker 12: Oh yeah. I mean, I mean, those guys are they grew up with me. They are guys that competed with me, and they they were once playing with. I mean, we were a very dominant teen center girl. We had more than just me. We had so many great defensive players that went to the next level, so many great offensive players, a few guys in the NFL. So I mean, honestly, just being able to play with those guys and be able to play the kids around here, I mean, everybody kind of just grew to be better. 00:38:06 Speaker 6: Versions of themselves. 00:38:07 Speaker 12: So, I mean, you see so many people from the indie level, and it's just why football's growing in Indiana and out. You just see so many players that are going on moving on to the next one. I feel like Indiana football is just kind of growing in all spects and that's even high school, college and NFL, and that's just what we want as a state really, not even just teams alone, just everybody getting better and kind of growing to be one of those kind of dominant football places that everybody wants to come watch high school football from the start. 00:38:31 Speaker 11: Well, listen, I've been told, but I know this to be true. You have a big fan sitting right here. I'm very excited for you, man, I'm very happy for you, obviously, proud and Coach Moore is a really good friend of mine and he's told me great things. I don't even have to tell you this. Go out and get them, continue to move forward, but hopefully we'll track you down again. But it's always a great conversation. We are incredibly happy for what you've accomplished. Keep going at it, Yes, suir Man, I appreciate you it. Chrichtoer is actually here out here today, so I just got to talk to him a little bit. Yeah, telling me talk to j MV today and he'll probably cuss me out or something. 00:39:05 Speaker 2: Yeah, I will see it. 00:39:07 Speaker 3: Pal. 00:39:09 Speaker 1: Take care, guys, thanks again for listening to Instant Replay because second helpings are always best when the main course is still fresh. Instant replay on ninety three five and one oh seven five the fan