Indianapolis Colts head coach discusses the balance and game flow of managing a pair of excellent running backs like Jonathan Taylor and Zack Moss.
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00:00 Did you realize as the game's ending
00:03 that Taylor touched the ball one time
00:06 and never again in the second half?
00:08 Did you know that?
00:09 - Yeah, I did know that.
00:10 Yeah, I was aware of that.
00:11 - And you were okay with that?
00:12 - Yeah, like I said, sometimes the game,
00:15 the flow of the game will kind of dictate
00:18 how it's called there.
00:19 You know, you're down two scores in the fourth quarter.
00:22 Could I pop the run in there?
00:23 Absolutely.
00:24 But I decided to throw it there towards the end.
00:28 - How do you sort of balance out
00:30 when one guy is proven to be a game breaker
00:33 more than the other one?
00:34 How do you still balance that?
00:36 - Yeah, no, that's a great question, Chap.
00:37 I think, you know, throughout the game,
00:39 we have stuff that, you know, JT's tagged on,
00:42 same thing with Moss.
00:43 And then, like I said, we try to ride the hot hand,
00:45 but, you know, JT is a big time playmaker
00:48 and he's continuing to improve every single week.
00:50 And obviously you saw there in the first half
00:53 and we'll continue to evaluate those things going forward
00:55 and making sure we got the guy that we want
00:58 in at the right time.
01:00 Yeah, you know, he had the big first half
01:01 and then looking back at the second half,
01:03 watching the tape last night and again this morning,
01:06 you know, we started, you know, backed up there on the 14,
01:08 had the one run with him, you know, got to a second and nine,
01:11 had a false start, went to second and 14,
01:14 you know, threw it there, got to third down
01:16 and then didn't convert.
01:18 And then we got it backed up again
01:19 and went with Zach in that next series, you know,
01:22 and he popped the one run.
01:23 And then we, you know, we got the, you know,
01:25 Mo Alleycox over the ball to get the first
01:26 and then he popped the run
01:27 and then got the third down where he popped the big one.
01:30 And then we went on the ball tempo there.
01:32 So it didn't sub there.
01:34 And then we had the turnover there, the interception.
01:37 And then when we got in the fourth quarter, you know,
01:39 we were down two scores there.
01:41 Could there have been an opportunity, you know,
01:42 for a run there?
01:43 Yeah, absolutely.
01:44 So, you know, just always self-evaluating everything
01:48 and we'll continue to do that.