00:00C'est dimanche soir, c'est donc la visio du SNL et cette fois on part à Indianapolis
00:04retrouver le receveur des Colts, Josh Downs, qui nous accueille ce soir.
00:10Josh, bonjour, how you doing ?
00:12Bonjour, doing well, how are you ?
00:14Good, I like how you start smiling when you're speaking French.
00:18France, great, great country.
00:20I went to Paris in July.
00:23I only got one day though, so I gotta go back.
00:25I gotta go back for a full week.
00:27Wait, how do you go to Paris for one day ?
00:29Because I was in London for a couple of days for Wimbledon,
00:32but we wanted to switch it up for one day, so we went to Paris.
00:36All right, that sounds really cool.
00:37Do you have a good time ?
00:39Yeah, it was smooth, but like I said, I only got one day,
00:41so I didn't really get to do like, it's not enough for one day.
00:44I got to do some shopping and see some stuff, but I need a full week.
00:50You gotta come back for sure.
00:52You know, like the NFL and football is getting bigger and bigger in France.
00:56Did you know ?
00:56Oh yeah, for sure.
00:58I didn't know like the audience, I don't know how big it's getting,
01:01but I know that, you know, we're expanding overseas and we're trying to do that.
01:04So, yeah, I wonder how much they like football over there.
01:07Well, it's getting bigger, but no worries, I'm not gonna have you speak French.
01:10Unless you want to.
01:11Yeah, I'm not good at that right now.
01:12I need a couple more lessons on that.
01:14All right, we'll wait on that.
01:16All right, Josh, let's talk some football.
01:18You've been in the NFL for three years.
01:20This is your fourth season now.
01:21How is this Colts team compared to the ones before?
01:25Yeah, I mean, I think just, you know, the fact that we have, my first three years, we were kind
01:30of like playing like a roller coaster.
01:31Well, not as much last year until DJ got hurt, but we were playing like a roller coaster with kind
01:36of quarterbacks and stuff.
01:37But this year, like having the solidified starter and a guy that has led us to wins and he's coming
01:44back healthy and been playing good in camp.
01:46And being able to roll with that is a little different.
01:49So I say that's the main thing.
01:51But, you know, every year you got good players, you got guys that are ready to roll and do their
01:55thing.
01:56So, I mean, that's always a thing that just stays the same.
02:01But having the same coaches as well is big for me, too.
02:04Same coaches since my rookie year.
02:05So that's pretty cool as well.
02:07That's going to be good for sure.
02:08So what's the goal for the season?
02:10Making the playoffs?
02:12I mean, yeah, well, of course we want to make the playoffs.
02:14We want to win the Super Bowl.
02:15But I feel like the main goal you got to do is attack the day and you got to win
02:21the day each and every day.
02:22And then you also got to win the game in front of you.
02:24So it's not really good to just, you know, look ahead to superficial things that you don't know what's going
02:29to happen in a couple of months.
02:30What about you individually?
02:32You got any goals set up?
02:34Yeah, I mean, I'd say my goal, you know, just really take advantage of all my opportunities.
02:38I feel like that's the main thing.
02:40And with that, it'll take care of itself.
02:42Taking advantage of my own opportunities will basically, like, filtrate to other goals I may have.
02:47But, you know, I don't get into the numbers and stuff like that.
02:50That's my own personal things.
02:52But, you know, just taking advantage of everything that comes my way and being prepared for the moment is big
02:57for me.
02:57All right, Josh, I want to talk some good football memories with you.
03:00Do you remember your very first touchdown in the NFL?
03:05Yeah, I do.
03:06Tell me about it.
03:07When was it?
03:08How was it?
03:09Yeah, I was playing the Jags in my rookie year, and it was a fourth down play.
03:13We were losing, but, I mean, it was still cool to get my first touchdown in.
03:17And it was fourth down, and they were playing man-to-man.
03:20I kind of won on this route near the goal line, and Gardner Mitchell threw me a touchdown.
03:26So that was my first one.
03:27I got a picture of it hanging up in my house right now.
03:30How cool did it feel?
03:32Yeah, no, definitely really cool to score your first NFL touchdown is definitely surreal in a way, just having that
03:40dream moment come true from being a kid.
03:42So it was definitely cool.
03:44All right, what about another memory?
03:46The day you got drafted.
03:47So you hear your name called up in the third round, 2023.
03:53What's it like?
03:54Yeah, it's a surreal moment again.
03:56There's a couple moments in your life that you literally remember the exact feeling, and that's one of them.
04:03It was just years of work just basically flooding it out of emotions immediately in that moment, seeing your family
04:11excited, your friends excited.
04:13And then also just feeling the excitement of going to a new city, new team, wondering how your life is
04:18going to be.
04:18And I had never been to – I had only been to Indianapolis one time before that for the combine,
04:23but I've never imagined myself living in Indiana before playing here.
04:29So I feel like that was something different for me.
04:31That's so cool to hear.
04:32All right, Josh, one last thing before I let you go and let you get back to your life.
04:36I'm sure you've got plenty of things to do.
04:37Do you have your celebration ready for your first touchdown this year?
04:43So my first touchdown, you know, I'm just going to get on my knees and, you know, point to the
04:48sky, thank God, thank Jesus.
04:50I got my first one in.
04:51And then after that one, I'll have some plan to, you know, to cook up a little bit.
04:56I feel like first one, you got to dedicate it to the Lord and Savior.
05:00So the one after that is going to be a surprise?
05:02I'm not allowed to see it yet?
05:04Yeah, it's going to be a surprise.
05:05All right, I get you.
05:06I look up for that.
05:07All right, Josh, thank you so much for taking the time to talk some football for the French fans.
05:13The NFL is getting bigger here and now they will know about you.
05:17Thank you.
05:18Thank you, Josh.
05:19Appreciate it.
