A few thoughts on this game

[Kray007]

Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles

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Yes, but we don't know if things would have played out that way had he made the extra point in the first quarter., That final drive by the Colts did not occur in a vacuum. The extra point miss was in the 1st quarter, and there was more than half of the game that was played after that prior to that final drive. The Texans would not necessarily have made all of the same play calls had they been up only by 6 instead of 7, and the same is true with the Colts.

It's like pointing to an egregiously bad call by the referees in the first quarter of a game, and then presuming that everything would have necessarily played out precisely the way that it did for the next 3 quarters had that bad call not been made.


If you want to believe that a missed extra point in the 1st quarter had a significant effect on the game, you can. I choose to accept the reality that the Colts were outplayed when it mattered.

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The reason they were outplayed is that Daniel Jones was playing on one leg, DeForest Bucket was nursing a neck injury, and one of the best Corners in the league was pacing the sidelines, his leg in a brace.

With all that going on, with Referees who looked like they had decided to join the Texan’s 12th man club, the game was a one score affair that might have gone to overtime had Badgely not muffed a PAT.

With two minutes left, the Colts had the ball on Houston’s 31. Had they been trailing by only 3, we would have seen a couple of runs by Taylor and the Colts would have lined up for what should be an easy FG.

Could Indy have won in OT? Who knows.