Greatness, or Disaster ??? The Chargers Game Could Send the Colts in Either Direction

[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by Oldcolt

I think initially the Colts caught teams unprepared for their offense. Mostly I believe it is how they were using Warren. They went from an offense with no tight end threat to one that was attacking from all over the field. There were obviously other things but defenses were bound to catch up (unless you actually think this was the greatest offense ever to grace an NFL field). They seemed to be catching and Jones got injured before we could know if we could react to those changes. It is still an open question and as someone who is not sold on DJ or Ballard anymore I see this as a reason to run them back for another year.

o


I don't think that this was one of the greatest offenses of all-time. I do think that this was at least a 12-5 team with a healthy Daniel Jones and with at least 1 or 2 other key players also being healthy. As I said in another post, this 2025 Colts team that started the season at 8-2 had an entirely different feel to it than almost all of the mediocre Colts teams of the recent past, and not just because of the offense ...... the 2025 Colts weren't just beating bad teams, they were absolutely hammering them. And when they came up against what appeared to be a daunting challenge (playing the Chargers on their home-field in southern California), the Colts beat them handily ...... they led by a score of 38-17 entering the 4th quarter, and coasted to a 38-24 win.



The bad news is that we Colts fans are going to be going into another season in 2026 without the assuredness that it will likely be a Peyton Manning-like/Andrew-Luck-like almost certainty of at least 10 or 11 wins and a playoff berth ...... the good news is that the team is young, the starting QB (Daniel Jones) is in his prime, and while the potential floor may not be high, the potential ceiling certainly is very high.

o