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Playing Down to Their Competiton ...... Not the 2025 Colts
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COLTS lll 33 lll - lll DOLPHINS ll 8 COLTS lll 41 lll - lll TITANS llllll 20 COLTS lll 40 lll - ll. RAIDERS lll. 6 Even when Andrew Luck was taking snaps behind center between 2012 and 2018, the Colts had a general reputation of "playing down to their competition" ...... games that were expected to be relatively easy wins often wound up being down-to-the-wire nailbiters. The 2025 Colts appear to be different, though ...... after demolishing the Dolphins on Opening Day, the Colts have racked up 2 blowout wins against sub-par competition. Will this pattern of taking care of business against weaker teams continue for the remainder of the 2025 season, or will the Colts revert back to what was their reputation prior to 2025 ??? Just the fact that this question is being asked in the first place has many Colts fans breathing huge sighs of relief. Not since Peyton Manning's prime years with the franchise between 1999 and 2010 has the team regularly steamrolled teams that they were expected to. o |
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(vs. CARDINALS, 10/12) The Colts played down to their competition today ...... but as I said in the game-thread, sometimes you have to win games when you play badly. Good teams find ways to win games in spite of their own bad play. o |
this defense is garbage
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Pass rush just not good enough. I can’t wait to see Franklin playing literally any other team but this one. |
I have t watched the game yet but from just looking at the box score it seems like they sold out to stop the run and dared Brissett to beat them.
And he almost did. |
Through six weeks of the 2024 NFL season, the Colts have scored 194 points....
which is more than any Colts team ever....even those helmed by Peyton Manning. This season is crazy.... |
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The 1968 Colts had 186 points through 6 games. 1967 Colts had 185 points through 6 games. Both of those teams only lost 1 regular-season game, and the 1967 Colts did not even make the playoffs because Pete Rozelle was a moron. Considering the rules at that time, which included being allowed to continually bump a receiver as many times as you wanted before the ball was in the air, those 1967 and 1968 teams were probably among the best offenses ever ...... the upset loss to the Jets in the 1968 Super Bowl was astounding, and the missing of the playoffs in 1967 was arguably one of the biggest injustices in pro football history. o |
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(vs. TITANS) l [OCTOBER 26th] Another game against a bad team ...... and another chance for this 2025 Colts to show that it is different than all of other post-Andrew Luck teams (save for the solid, consistent 2020 Philip Rivers Colts team.) o |
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(vs. TITANS, 10/26) The Colts continue to roll against sub-par teams. o |
In terms of record, the Falcons and Texans are the weakest teams we have left on our schedule.
Gird your loins because the teams we play are going to get a lot better really fast. |
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The Colts already have head-on wins over the Broncos and the Chargers. A head-on win over the Steelers would likely all-but wrap up the #2 seed in the AFC, even though it still would only be 9 games into the season ...... if they beat the Steelers AND the Chiefs, then I think that the Colts would have all but salted away the #1 seed in the AFC, even though that would only be 11 games into the season. I can't believe that I am making such outrageously optimistic and confident statements with a straight face for a franchise that had repeatedly stepped all over their dicks in every season since Andrew Luck's retirement, with the exception of the 2020 Philip Rivers season. o |
This Colt team is nothing like Colt teams of the recent past. They don't play down to the lower comp. They are immediately dragging them into the deep end of the pool and drowning them, and I am here for it.
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It ain't over til it's over. |
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You are 100% correct. However, the last time that I felt this way about the Colts was in the Peyton Manning era ...... even in the Andrew Luck era, I was not this confident about the team going forward. In yesterday's game thread, I said that I was not worried about the fact that the Colts were only up by 3 point, 10-7 ...... last year and every year since the retirement of Andrew Luck (with the exception of the 2020 Philip Rivers season), I WOULD HAVE BEEN WORRIED if the Colts were up by 14 points. All of that said, we could be one Daniel Jones injury away from disaster. o |
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(NOVEMBER 2nd) The Colts played badly today ...... they didn't play down to their competition, they just played badly. So far, the Colts have had 2 bad games this season ...... one against the Cardinals (a win), and one against the Steelers (a loss.) I said that good teams find ways to win games when they play badly ...... but of course, good teams don't ALWAYS win when they play badly. Sometimes you just play badly, and you lose the game because of it. I actually think that the Colts played a better game in their loss to the Rams than they did in their win over the Cardinals ...... if you minimize the bad games, then the W-L category will take care of itself over the course of the 17-game season. o |
If we don’t beat the Falcons Sunday, which I think is a coin flip game, we’re looking at a 3 game losing streak because I dont think there’s any way we’re winning in Kansas City.
After that we get the Texans at home, then we’re at Jax and at Seattle, both of which are probably losses. I think we’re dangerously close to the wheels coming off. They need to get their shit together. |
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The Chiefs. The Texans. The Jaguars, The Seahawks, The 49ers. The Jaguars. The Texans. The term "playing down to their competition" has not/does not apply to the Colts for any of these games. o |
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