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F.T. Walton

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  1. The defense has certainly bailed the offense out. I dont think that is a sustainable formula for success. At some poimt the offense has to do a better job. You cant count on the other teams ineptitude every week.

    Kind of ironic, that Manning is the weak link on a team with a #1 defense. All those years his appologists complained about him needing to bail out the Colts weak defense.  Now the Broncos' defense is the only reason that Peyton is not sitting on the bench like RG 3-13.

  2. As long as everyone curbs their enthusiasm we can weather this game against New England. We got blown out by Buffalo and blown out by the Jets, we barely squeaked by the Titans, and the Jaguars and we notched a 1 score victory over the Texans, who looked very poor.

     

    Expecting victory is like expecting to win the lottery, sure it can happen, but it's not very likely.

    It's pretty sad that government counts on people expecting to win the lottery in order to balance the budget.

  3. This is from a Boston news outlet, but it is merely a compilation of what people around the country think about this game. They call it a "Prediction Roundup"

     

    http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/2015/10/16/patriots-colts-prediction-roundup-let-face-facts-the-colts-just-aren-very-good/jshsLsQPvr6YCyDBlUv4KJ/story.html?p1=story_hp

     

    I expect Belichick does not subscribe to this kind of trash talk.  Even in private.  The Patriots could lose this game, no matter what the experts think.

  4. what makes you say that?

     

    I wasn't saying because I think the Colts are so amazing, I meant because there is a huge drop-off going from Brady to Garropolo....

    Luck has not played especially well, and is still not certain to play. What is so amazing about the Colts that losing Brady would make the Patriots not able to even compete with the Colts? 

  5. This post is the most big-headed I have ever seen from any fan........ Is your fandom really so up  Tom's rear-end that you cannot see how ridiculous you sound? 

     

    Sure, the Patriots are a great team, Bill Bellichick is one of, if not the GOAT coaches and Tom Brady is a machine, but to say what you have said above is ridiculous..... How about if Tom Brady gets injured before the game in practice or even during, still think the Pats win? I'd have serious doubt that the Pats would even be competitive in the game in that scenario...

    Your last statement ties the post you quoted for "big-headedness".

  6. That may all be well and good. I'm only saying that I can't see any scenario where the Patriots do not win this game, purely from a talent standpoint. The score may be debatable, but I can't see the Colts winning this game. That's even throwing aside all the other stuff and the fact Brady and Co. will want to embarrass you guys at home. The Patriots are just too tough.

    You can't see any scenario?  The Colts play better than the Patriots is one.  The Pats have a bad game plan is two.  Someone gets injured is three.

     

    Any given Sunday, as they say.  Or, as we saw last night, any given Thursday night.

  7. ARLINGTON, Texas – You look at Tom Brady, and you have to wonder how different the narrative could have been. If, say, he started this season like Andrew Luck, dragging a 65.1 quarterback rating into October like an anchor. Or if Brady's mistakes and inefficiency had mirrored Luck's noxious cocktail: seven interceptions and a 56 percent completion rate. Slap those numbers under Brady's name, and they'd be used as pitchforks and torches.

    Maybe his detractors would say the proof was on the field, that the New England Patriots' star had been exposed as a guy profiteering from deceit. Maybe they would go further, suggesting that meticulously regulated footballs had finally ended Brady's reign. Maybe they would try to burn his entire Hall of Fame career to the ground.

     

    http://sports.yahoo.com/news/tom-brady-makes-mockery-of-deflate-gate-claims--this-time-with-his-on-field-brilliance-032756207.html

  8. Report: Jim Irsay could go "big-game hunting" with head coach search after season http://t.co/HqsjtjQuZ4

    — Josh Wilson (@JoshWilsonSB)

    September 20, 2015

    Report: Jim Irsay could go "big-game hunting" with head coach search after season http://t.co/HqsjtjQuZ4

    :colts:

    *.  What head coach of any stature would want to work for him?

  9. And this is what history says about 0 - 2 teams-

     

    "Since the NFL expanded to a 12 team playoff format in 1990, only 23 teams of 204 to start 0-2 (11.2 percent) have overcome the winless start to make the postseason.

     

    The recent numbers are even worse, as mentioned above: Since 2009, the only two teams to start 0-2 and make the playoffs were Carolina in 2013 and Indianapolis in 2014 have made the playoffs. To put it into third-grade mathematical terms, over the past six seasons you have a 4% chance of making the playoffs if you’re winless headed into Week 3."

     

    Only 5 teams in the history of the NFL have made the playoffs after going 0 - 3 to start  season.

     

    ESPN's FPI has Philly at 55%, Seahawks at 54%, adn Colts at 51% chance tomake playoffs, despite the o - 2 records.

     

    Baltimore Ravens are at 27%

    So if the record doesn't get better, the Colts are not a playoff team.  Doesn't mean they can't go 14-0 the rest of the way (no chance).  But right now, they are winless.  They are what their record shows.

  10. This so reminds me of the 2001 season. At some point in the season Pollian decided Mora and staff had to go. My only concern is if we have a bad season we clean house and the make the mistake of hiring someone like Nick Saban or a big name coach who wants to rebuild...again...I truly believe it is Pep Hamilton..I dont blame Grigson for taking Dorsett because if we lost TY to free agency we would have needed a replacement. This loss burns more than any in the past..winds of change?

    Except Pagano doesn't have the stones to go off the way that Mora did.  His "rant" was weak. 

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