A few thoughts on this game

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Originally Posted by HoosierinFL

Stop with the copium, looking for silver linings and hope.

This team has shit the bed and lost every bit of offensive spark they had early in the season. They can't handle the blitz since the Pittsburgh game, and if Atlanta had a more effective defensive rush we would have lost that game too. Every team we face from here on except the 49ers has a top defense in one way or another.
Jags has #1 run defense and will sell out to stop it, and force us to beat them with the pass. Seahawks have #2 run defense and will do the exact same thing. And Steichen will give in to that and abandon the run entirely in the 2nd half in all 3 of those games. All 3 will be losses. (and that's not to mention Jags and hawks are tied for 2nd in interceptions, and hawks ranked 4 in sacks.)
We play Houston's #1 total defense again, which we will lose.
Only the 49ers game is winnable from that perspective, but then, the 49ers have the 4th best passing offense vs the Colts 27th ranked (and sinking) pass defense.

8 wins is where it stops. Colts lose out and miss the playoffs.

I said after the Steelers game that the wheels were very close to coming off. I said the Falcons game would be a toss up and it was. We were lucky to win that.

I said if they could just win their three remaining home games, they’d cruise to the playoffs.

I felt like Sunday was a potentially season breaking game if they lost, because they absolutely could not afford to lose that game. And that’s exactly what happened.

Now we have a brutal 2 game road trip against 2 very good teams.

The Colts are going to have to nut up and find something or they will lose out.