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

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Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles

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So, after the Steelers game, it might have been clear that the Colts' season would be going in the shitter ??? Or as you say, in hindsight, that Steelers game was the blueprint for dismantling the Colts team that started the season at 6-1 before that game, and at 8-2 before Daniel Jones broke his fibula. That's about as dubious a claim that I can imagine in regard to what was the main protagonist in the collapse of the 20-25 Colts season.

The Colts committed 6 turnovers in the Steelers game. After that Steelers game, the Colts had 2 games in which they had 0 turnovers, and they had only 1 or 2 turnovers in all of their other remaining games except for the one against the Jaguars in which they had 3. Anybody who even moderately followed the Colts this season knows that that Daniel Jones breaking his left fibula in the Chiefs game was the biggest factor in their collapse, and the combination of further season-losses to key players (such as DeForest Buckner and Sauce Gardner) created the ideal storm for their collapse. There was no blueprint set by the Steelers, there was the Colts' otherwise mobile quarterback having to run and throw on a broken fibula, there was the team being relegated to a 44 year-old Philip Rivers as their QB after Jones tore his Achilles tendon, and there was the fact that the team was further decimated by season-ending injuries to Buckner and Gardner. If there was a blueprint set by the Steelers, the Colts would have been beaten soundly in almost every game that they played with Jones playing on his broken fibula and with 44 year-old Philip Rivers taking the snaps behind the center.

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I said in hindsight, believe me I wanted it to work and I had high hopes but looking back now they were never the same after the Steelers game.

And I gotta be a realist here, I’m not sold on Jones