James Boyd talked about it this morning along with Kevin Bowen and Jeff Rickard. He joins us now on the program. You hear him on the fan morning show, but we want to get, as we talked about, his boots on the ground out of West 56th, Shane Steichen, talking to the media today. And then everything gets back underway to now shift and kind of turn the page towards the Las Vegas Raiders. James, I'll begin with this.

We just talked about it.

Kenny Moore, Alec Pierce, looks like both of those not going to be.

Alec Pierce can have got to go through some things.

Will we see Alec Pierce on the field against the Raiders?

Yeah, it does sound like that is trending in the right direction.

Shane told us today that

Alec Pierce will practice he's on the protocol but that's usually normal just because they

usually don't clear the guy until the following week and so if things go as planned I would expect

Alec Pierce to be cleared sometimes whether it's Friday or Saturday and then when it comes to

Kenny Moore he said that he remains out I did ask him him, hey, is this like a week-to-week thing? And he was just saying, hey, when he's progressing well, and that's about all the update we got on him. And so those are the two big injury updates I have for you. James, when you look at the defensive backfield for the Colts, which is clear. And look, I'm not even saying this as a knock on the Colts. I mean, it's their Achilles right now, but attrition is a huge part of that. And Xavier Howard, I mean, it does feel, I mentioned last night, the fever were good to the last drop. I feel like they've gotten the last drop out of the career of Xavier and Howard. And again,

it's just, it's time, right? Do they continue to go that way or does Lou Anarumo now say,

you know what, we've got to experiment and go somewhere else? That's an interesting question because we were able to follow up with Shane today. And again, they basically are saying, hey, those are

two elite receivers last week and Devonte Adams and P Puka Nakua. So it's going to be a tough matchup for anything. But I do feel like you look at the numbers, man, and you can look at any site, whether it's pro football ball focus, pro football reference, true media, which we use all these different, you know, languages I'm speaking right now.

Who cares? All of it says he's been bad. And if you use your regular eyes, you can tell that he has been bad and he's been pretty, you know, porous on defense and just giving up yards, giving up catches. I think the thing that's probably most concerning, when you look at this, Jake, is some of the effort at the end of these plays. You go back and watch some of that tape, man. I'm not like a body language expert, but, you know, there was a couple of times where a pass gets caught in his vicinity, and he's the last guy rallying to the ball. He's the last guy trying to make a tackle. And so those things are concerning to me. So I do think that personally, it's time to possibly try something else because it really cannot get any

worse than what you're seeing right now. I mean, the passer rating when you're targeting,

Xavier and Howard, I believe, through the first four weeks of the season, is like above 120.

And for those listening, a perfect passer rating is 158.3. And usually if you're above 100,

that's really good. So for it to be 120 is absurd.

Yeah, it's just you keep going to that side, right?

And then, you know, the other thing that comes into play, and James, you tell me,

or kind of spell this out for people, I guess, if you will.

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