Take us through that process, the recovery process, and him being able to start the season opener for the Colts.

Yeah, I mean, he took every off-season rep, every training camp rep, you know, throughout with that starting unit.

And so it was kind of always, I think, as weird as it sounds, the expectation he would play week one.

It was just how he would look.

You know, I would say there weren't any plays from Jones that made you go, wow, like at least I had the audible wow, really on both Mahomes touchdown runs.

And one of them got called back, certainly that second one.

So I don't think you saw anything like that from Jones.

This team is probably good enough to win six or seven games and put themselves at like the 11th overall pick, but not good enough to where you really feel good about the season, but not bad enough where you can get the pick that can radically change things.

Take us through that process, the recovery process, and him being able to start the season opener for the Colts.

Yeah, I mean, he took every off-season rep, every training camp rep, you know, throughout with that starting unit.

And so it was kind of always, I think, as weird as it sounds, the expectation he would play week one.

It was just how he would look.

You know, I would say there weren't any plays from Jones that made you go, wow, like at least I had the audible wow, really on both Mahomes touchdown runs.

I know one of them got called back, certainly that second one.

So I don't think you saw anything like that from Jones.

This team is probably good enough to win six or seven games and put themselves at like the 11th overall pick, but not good enough to where you really feel good about the season, but not bad enough where you can get the pick that can radically change things.

The vibes are high in Indianapolis, and boy, did that thing come crashing real quickly.

Yeah, that's a pretty accurate way to put it.

You know, when you go on an eight-game losing streak, when you have a collapse of the nature of what the Colts did in last season, you know, the beautiful end of the rainbow that, you know, many professional sports leagues offer, particularly the NFL, is the draft, and it's that draft pick, and yet you don't have that.

If this season were to derail, because there's many Colts fans out there that want to see change from a management head coaching standpoint, Again, you don't have that draft pick waiting for you in the first round at the end of the tunnel.

It was two first-round picks they gave up for Sauce Gardner, for those that might not remember the full parameters of that trade there.

I don't think Sauce has been bad.

I really don't think that at all.

This team is probably good enough to win six or seven games and put themselves at like the 11th overall pick, but not good enough to where you really feel good about the season, but not bad enough where you can get the pick that can radically change things.

Mm-hmm.

So the thought there was he would already have been back.

I think we're now, like, I don't know, we're about, we're at least three weeks, I think, into that original one to two weeker.

Uh, and you know, as we talk right now, they're about ready to take on the Falcons in joint practices tomorrow and Thursday.

The thought is Pierce won't participate.

So that's the one timeline that hasn't checked out, where, like, Pierce is, you know...

I- it's not going according to plan.

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Do I need to be a qualified UKA run leader or coach to organize a Green Runners meetup?"

Good question.

Um, so, um, no, you don't need to be a, a, a coach or a leader in running fitness, um, through UKA.

Um, if you want to organize a meetup- Um, away from a, an organized event like Parkrun, then that can be helpful because it, tho- those qualifications provide you with, um, public liability insurance a- and so on, which you'd need to, to consider.

Um, so you need to consider things like risk assessment, first aid provision if you're organizing a meetup away from an organized event.

Um, and that's one of the reasons I, I choose in Nottingham to organize the meetups around Parkrun venues because essentially we're, we're piggybacking off of Parkrun.

We're, we are using the event as our catalyst for a meeting point.

If someone is listening and wants to come along to a Nottingham meetup, Kev, what can they expect and how do they find out when the next one is?

So no Farmer.

Correct.

Yeah.

You know, it's funny.

I just updated my position battle stories on our website.

I like to do it when we get kind of the first big off day of, OK, what's changed? You know, I had six or seven position battles at the start of camp.

All right, let's update them.

Yeah, that was, is that gonna is that gonna carry on into the season, do you think? Or are they kind of just easing a CJ Allen in given he missed the first couple of practices?

But if you look at what they are right now, what do you feel like, if anything, the Pacers still need if they were to go out and actually hunt for another piece to add to their team?

Yeah, I- I'd say, like, maybe one more guard creator.

Um, you know, the Anfernee Simons thing was kind of intriguing to me, um, just kinda based off his skill set and then the puzzle that you just kinda laid out there.

Um, I like, I, I think there's still enough in the engine of TJ McConnell, but uh, it's just kinda still a little bit of a lingering question of, you know, is that gonna be ...

Is that continuing to be a thing, you know, into his mid-30s now? Um, and then just kinda next to him, you know, I don't know, combo guardy, you know, type of look there.

You know, two guard if you wanna slot it into a one through five thing.

Um, just because, you know, to me, like, Jaris Walker, Kelly Oubre, you know, even Top, into a degree, you know, height-wise, they're all, you know, just kinda similar.

Yeah