Good morning, everybody.

Today is Friday, July 7th.

Thank you for making me a part of your morning.

Hopefully your weekend is getting off to a fantastic start as we get to weekend number

two in July Hall of Fame game, just four weeks away from football finally being back

on the TV.

But while we're waiting, we will continue on with another episode of first thoughts

today looking at the Indianapolis Colts, a team that is on a lot of better's minds in the

offseason going into 2023 about what could be. And certainly when you look from the outside

in, there's a ton of reasons to be optimistic. And there's a ton of reasons to be optimistic and there's a ton of reasons to be

excited because as a better or even as someone who is just kind of beyond that level of a casual

fan that does a little reading, understand sort of modern football, everything that the Colts

have done in the last three months get you, get you moving, to put it

lightly. So first and foremost, the hiring of Shane Steichen at head coach. It was a massive process

to go out and find the head coach. They bring in Steichen. And I mean, everything that he has done

and said in the last three months is everything that you want to hear as a football

fan as a better as anybody who's interested in the league he goes out cleans house for the

offensive staff there's only two guys on the entire offensive staff that are older than 38 this is a very

young a very modern focused offense from the top all the way down.

This is one of the youngest coaching staffs in the entire NFL. And so when you think about that

and you think about the scheme that Shane Steichen runs, you get, again, excitement is the word for the Colts, because Stuyken comes

from the Eagles and his offensive scheme obviously got them to the Super Bowl, but the way that it's

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