Big Weekend Sports Preview! Nicole Auerbach, Dustin Dopirak, Pat Knight, and James Boyd Join!
Query & Company
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🗓️ 1 November 2024
⏱️ 128 minutes
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Summary
(00:00-22:46) – Query & Company opens on a Friday with Jimmy Cook and producer Eddie Garrison previewing this weekend’s monster sports weekend. Jimmy previews the start of the Colts “win now” era with Joe Flacco starting. Also, they immediately react to the breaking news that the Indiana Fever are hiring Stephanie White as the team’s next head coach!
(22:46-39:33) – NBC Sports College Football Insider, Nicole Auerbach, joins Query & Company with Jimmy Cook to preview IU’s game tomorrow against Michigan State, explains the significance of Kurtis Rourke’s return against the Spartans, evaluates the likelihood that Indiana makes the College Football Playoff if they have one loss, and then shares something she took away from her interview with Curt Cignetti.
(39:33-42:33) – Hour number one concludes with Jimmy and Eddie examining the injury report tonight for the Indiana Pacers and New Orleans Pelicans.
(42:33-1:07:03) – IndyStar Indiana Pacers beat writer, Dustin Dopirak, joins Jimmy Cook on Query & Company to preview tonight’s game against the New Orleans Pelicans, evaluates how close Bennedict Mathurin is to becoming a starter for the Pacers, highlights how much Mathurin has improved defensively, and details the early season struggles so far for the Pacers when it comes to closing out games.
(1:07:03-1:21:31) – Indiana HS Sports reporter, Kyle Neddenriep, from the IndyStar joins the show to explain the fallout from the way the Danville/Brebeuf game ended last week, highlights some of the games across the state that he finds interesting as 5A and 6A begin sectional play tonight, and identifies a couple teams that could be a Cinderella team because of their tournament draw and how they closed the regular season.
(1:21:31-1:25:37) – Hour number two concludes with Jimmy and Eddie discussing the statements that Shane Steichen made regarding whether he met with Anthony Richardson or not and if Richardson has been doing everything he should be as an NFL quarterback.
(1:25:37-1:49:10) – James Boyd from The Athletic joins Jimmy Cook on Query & Company to provide clarity as to whether he knows when Shane Steichen and Chris Ballard met with Anthony Richardson. James evaluates the likelihood of the Colts utilizing Anthony Richardson in select packages considering his mobility versus Joe Flacco, assesses if the Colts will make any moves prior to next week’s trade deadline if they are in fact in a win now mode, and provides an update on the Colts health entering the weekend.
(1:49:10-2:02:46) – With both teams practice in the books, Jimmy and Eddie highlight the players that are out and returning for the Indianapolis Colts and Minnesota Vikings. Additionally, Jimmy provides his take on why Shane Steichen should NOT play Anthony Richardson in select packages.
(2:02:46-2:08:16) – Marian Knights Head Coach Pat Knight joins Jimmy to conclude the show to preview tonight’s exhibition game against Indiana, highlights the importance of returning Gus Etchison, and what it means to him playing in Assembly Hall tonight on the one-year anniversary of his father’s passing. Finally, Jimmy and Eddie share their Colts picks and weekend bets!
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Blue Friday to Indianapolis. |
| 0:05.2 | Busy sports weekend across the city, across the state for that matter. |
| 0:09.2 | If you want to expand where teams are going, you could say across the country, |
| 0:12.4 | paces in action tonight against the New Orleans Pelicans. |
| 0:14.6 | We'll get into that today. |
| 0:16.6 | But Colts begin their win now mode this Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings. |
| 0:24.0 | As Joe Flacco tried to take this 4-14 to the heights that they have apparently dreamed for themselves all season long |
| 0:31.8 | when they make the decision to Ben Chanty-Ritchardson and go with the veteran in Joe Flacko. |
| 0:37.2 | We've examined this a lot of different ways this week. |
| 0:39.9 | The main upside that Joe Flacco is going to bring to the table is the experience of having |
| 0:45.1 | seen pretty much everything there is to see within the national football league. |
| 0:49.0 | He's won a Super Bowl. |
| 0:50.0 | He's had tough losses. |
| 0:51.3 | He's brought his team back for emphatic wins. |
| 0:54.4 | You're obviously hopeful there's no necessitation for big comebacks or being on the wrong |
| 0:59.5 | end of those comebacks, like the last time of historic precedents that the Colts and the Vikings |
| 1:03.9 | met one another. |
| 1:05.9 | But that's what you're looking at with Joe Flacko. |
| 1:08.4 | He's 71 of 108 on the season, 716 yards, 7 touchdown to one pick. |
| 1:14.3 | And if you're still looking at the positives on this, passer rating standpoint, ninth best |
| 1:20.0 | in the league, though it has been, admittedly, in a limited sample size, just his third |
| 1:25.2 | start of the season, because we know the Colts have gone with Anthony Richardson throughout, and the development project that was, and that's |
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