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Additionally, half the INTs came in the three blowouts. So, it's a bit deceiving. It's sort of like a pitcher's ERA that is inflated by one bad game a month, but he's good in the rest of the games. In the end, if the pitcher is good in the other games, does it matter that the team lost that one game 10-1 vs. 2-1? Similarly, does it matter that the Colts were blown out in those games as opposed to losing them by a TD? Either way, they would probably be in the same position.
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Clutch play. They win in the most important moments.
- The defense isn't great, but they seem to get stops and hold teams to FGs when they need to.
- They don't run the ball well, but seem to in the second half and on game deciding drives.
- Luck is a rookie and isn't perfect, but on 3rd down, at the end of halves, at the end of games, he's money.
- Overall good special teams play, with good kicking and punting from McAfee. His punt inside the 2 was the unheralded play of the game.
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Yes, and if we pull off the miracle and win the division, our reward in the first round might be... the Texans.
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I'd love top get the '5' seed and play at Baltimore..I think that's our shot...
Looks like a good possibilty to me.
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in the first round a 4th seed would guarantee the colts play either pitt, bal or cinn, mathematically impossible for the texans to be the 6th seed
id rather have pitt/cin/ball at home than on the road at baltimore, ne or denver
If the Colts win the division, the Texans would be a Wild Card, right? I'm not sure where you think they are going.
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Also, their reward might be having to play the Texans 3 times in 4 weeks.
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Should the Colts complete the miracle and win the division, their reward could be the Texans or Steelers. I might rather play Baltimore on the road anyway.
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The best reason you can come up with is clutch play. When the game is on the line, they show up. Eight of our nine wins could easily have gone the other way.
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colts can win in different ways.
I was under the impression there was only one way to win a football game: Manning driving 80 yards for a TD.
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Considering the Titans got seven off the pick and the Colts scored 10 off turnovers, they did their job.
Being a colts fan, I am not sure, but I think this is what the rest of the league calls defense.Exactly.
This is how other teams often win games such as this. We simply haven't seen much of it over the past 14 years. -
wait hold on. i did my math wrong sorry not yet. please dont kill me
Yeah, I didn't think so.
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You sure we win all tiebreakers if the Jets win out, etc.?
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Yeah, I didn't agree with the decision to release ALL our TE's at all. That just created unnecessary voids in an already depleted roster. Regardless of how Fleener and Allen turn out, that was one wasted draft pick dedicated to filling a need we created senselessly. Fleener appears to be in the mold of the 2 players we released (Tamme and Clark) so the question begs to be asked, why part ways with both of them at all? I can understand not resigning Clark, but Tamme is a young receiving TE just like Fleener. That 2nd round pick could've been used to address more pressing needs. He's a Colt now, so I'll support him. I just don't understand the logic behind those series of moves
Allen wasn't the plan. Grigson had planned to go CB with the pick, but in seeing nothing else he liked in the round, he went BPA. Had he seen something he liked, I assume he would have gone cheap on a blocking TE in free agency. I understand what you're saying about Tamme/Fleener, but the pick they were planning to shore up other areas with was the Allen pick.
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If he had better statistics, he would certainly be in the conversation. It's not just about statistics, but with a 26 TD, 14 INT, 90-something QB rating season, he would probably finish second behind Manning, given the circumstances. The Colts would have to win out, win the division, with Luck throwing 9 TDs, no INTs for him to be a serious candidate.
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Alot of them left after they had a 2 score lead
I meant the number of cheering Colt fans.
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Holy crap, was that a home game? Check out the crowd.
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Hey, if the Colts win out, the Patriots lose to Houston and another team, the Broncos lose a game, Houston loses to Minnesota, and Baltimore loses two, the Colts are the #1 seed.
So, you're telling me there's a chance.
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Anything can happen. If we do make it, it's highly possible the Steelers could still pass us to get to #5. When you play with the playoff generator, if a group of teams finish at 12-4, the seeds jump around from 1-6, depending upon who the teams beat.
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What you guys aren't thinking through is that teams and quarterbacks play differently in the post season. Once the wild card starts, all those 59 point beatings etc. are worthless. We got cocky in 2010 after laying a 45-3 beating on the Jets only to lose in the post season against them.
Look at Eli, he becomes an absolute monster in the post season. Peyton on the other hand looks awful. Brady historically has not played well in the AFCCG (2006, 2007, 2011). Mark Sanchez plays really well. Flacco was the best QB last year statistically in the AFC even with the dropped TD that would have sent them to the SB.
If you boil it down to which teams/qbs don't play well in the post season, the numbers and history point to Peyton. Yes Brady hasn't played all that well either but the difference is he advances his teams throughout the playoffs and eventually to the big game. Peyton has a knack of just going one and done.
There's only one problem with that theory: Manning is no longer playing on the Colts. He is no longer playing on what passed for a football team under Polian. Brady's not winning three Super Bowls with Jim Mora and the Colt defenses either.
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A few on the previous drive were possibly more important, and the bomb for a TD before the 2:00 warning was the key to it all.
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All I remember is Peyton in America's Game on NFL Network following our SB winning year. He told Mr.Polian or Mr.Irsay before the draft that if you dont draft me, I will kick your butt the next 15 years. If he did really say that, I can imagine what he is thinking now (though the 15 years maybe 5 years for bulletin board material now
).I hadn't thought of that, but honestly, he's probably thankful to be in Denver, everything considered. If he's still here, Caldwell and Polian are still in business.
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There are many reasons I don't want to play Denver, but this is reason #1: Peyton would destroy this secondary. He would play them like clowns. Give us Flacco and we might have a game.
The Colts still have to make it though, and that's not guaranteed.
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I thought the play calling yesterday was pretty much what everyone has been asking for - more slants and quick hitters, more dump-offs to the backs. Yet, for most of the second half, they didn't move the ball. So, to me, it still comes down to execution: block it up, make the pass, catch the ball.
Also, they won on the final two drives by dinking and dunking? That's news to me. I saw a bomb for a TD, a long pass to Reggie and a few long QB runs. You could make a stronger argument that they dinked and dunked for most of the game, then won the game by returning to being themselves.
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I'm hoping for a convincing win by Dallas. We need them to have momentum and something to play for going into Cincinnati next week.
3 times in 4 weeks.
GO PATS!
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The flip side is now the Texans will have to fight every game to, one, keep the division, and two, keep the #1 seed.
If we can't beat the Texans, I hope we beat the Chiefs or the Jets lose.