hey what's up Colts Nation it's Josh Hudgins with the common cult podcast a Colts podcast is real takes and no clickbait and we have some bad news CTS fans uh Julius Brin is been reported now that he is out for the season out for the season I feel like this came out of just nowhere and this is bad news I don't know how else I could stress this and we give one word reactions on our show and when I say this is devastating news I mean this is devastating news for a variety of reasons and I'm going to dive into that right now because Brin was such a promising young player for the Colts and they needed him to step up in the worst way this year we needed him to step up and develop and have a full season this is just a big gun punch after a game that I I I was a little upset about when we lost obviously but looking back at it on Monday and on this morning I was feeling better about knowing that Houston is look Houston's a Super Bowl contending team and we went punch for- punch with him so I was feeling better but this news comes and now I feel like the roller Co coaster begun and when I think about it it's just unfortunate because I don't blame Chris Ballard for putting his chips on the table saying hey I took a second round pick on a cornerback last season he he had some injuries but it's a new season we're going to put our marbles in and we're going to trust him to start and and play most of the season I don't I don't hate on Ballard at all for that move here's where the issue lies and again for most of our videos in the past you can look I'm more of a Chris Ballard apologist but lately this when stuff like this happens it's hard to defend him your insurance policy is Dallas flowers and I I thought Dallas flowers played well last year for the four games that he played but what happened he tours Achilles as a cornerback as an undrafted cornerback that is your insurance policy Dallas flowers so now what happens we Chris lemons gets upgraded to the 53 man roster and we sign Calvin Joseph and and that's kind of exciting I know he was a former second round pick in 2021 but he's a free agent for a reason and that is just the biggest issue because we're fans and I know as fans sometimes we think we know all and we don't but there's some things that's common sense that you could just see from a mile away and the Colts doing nothing to their secondary being so thin at secondary entering the season is just gross negligence now Kelvin Joseph and Chris lemons are going to come in and fill in for a secondary the that's already not very good that is just inexcusable for the Colts and honestly there's going to be some fans maybe clamoring for a trade or or possibly s signing Stephan Gilmore who's a free agent still I don't think any of that's going to happen I think at this point the Colts have shown what their intentions are this season and that's to develop and play the young guys on their roster uh this is not a Super Bowl team so signing a Stephen Gilmore isn't really going to move the needle too much on that and I think that's that's probably the Chris Ballard side of things is that hey I want to I want to let these young guys develop they just need to play and I get that to an extent but at the same time when you're not adding any strong young Talent it hurts when you see one guy go down and you're like okay what do we have here Chris lemon's like this this this just isn't acceptable um so Juju brins out for the season per Ian rap report I am seeing some news from Mike Chapel um saying hey he thinks it's maybe an MCL um it's not an ACL tear there's some hope that he may return in late December but right now per and Rapaport from everything we're seeing we might as well count him out for this season just a big blow to the Colts defense uh in a position group that was already thin now even thinner this this is bad news um I try not to overreact I try not to be one of those people I try not to be a sky falling kind of guy but when you look at this roster and you think about big blows to the team it it's always unfortunate to lose any player on any position group but that cornerback position group that's right up there among the top right after quarterback probably I mean that is a big blow uh guys I'm curious what your thoughts are again I I asked for your one-word reaction but I do ask just give me your analysis I enjoy reading through the chat and responding to some people when they give good thought out analysis um subscribe to our Channel and let me know what you think thanks for watching guys and have a great day