but I can only subject myself to watching it once more so I’m taking suggestions for one thing to break down on each side of the ball.

Neither Reggie Wayne or Marvin Harrison could get any separation from the DBs. Coming into this came, I had thought Green Bay’s secondary was a bit suspect, plus they were missing some starters. I’d like see the breakdown of our WRs vs their DBs.

if my fantasy teams don’t do well I’m just going to sit in my room and cry all week.

10-2 straight up though. The bad teams just wouldn’t cover for me this week.

Right now, the best description isn’t “good” or “bad”, it’s “unpredictable” or “inconsistent”. Which translates to 8-10 wins, especially with this schedule, and maybe (but not certainly) the playoffs. If they came out and played this week like they did against Baltimore, sure, we could feel better about the season, like they’d turned a corner and were a legitimately good team. Unfortunately, they didn’t come close, so I don’t know if we can properly assign a description. Yet.

A huge part was the Packers. Rogers is a much better QB than Flacco. Jennings and Driver are better than anyone on the Ravens. Green Bay’s O-line is much better than Baltimore’s. Defensively, Green Bay’s DBs could crowd the line and stay with Wayne and Harrison, when Baltimore’s were consistently beaten.

The Colts’ offense was maddingly inconsistent. Though they didn’t really get to Peyton, the protection was always just a step or two from breaking down. Another sign of overally inconsistency is the continued penalties, including our first two personal fouls of the year (although the late hit Jackson got called for early on was laughable).

I don’t feel Addai’s absence mattered much; Rhodes played well. I thought the biggest missing player was Hayden. Green Bay has two excellent WRs which meant Jennings had to take one, and he manifestly could not do it. I’d rather see him beaten deep half a dozen times than continue to see him give the kind of cushion normally found only on overstuffed furniture, but that’s what he does all the time. Add in the stupid penalties and he deserves to be cut before the plane flight back to Indy. Jason David at his worst wasn’t this bad. I’m not normally a knee-jerk advocate for firing anyone; I’ve never been on the fire-Russ-Purnell bandwagon, for instance. But I honestly don’t think Jennings should have a place on this team. I’d play Hughes, Ratliff, anyone. The hole in the zone, anyone.

I thought the Colts would be 5-1 or 4-2 at this point, so I’m not advocating throwing in the towel. Falling further behind the Titans next week will be a death knell, at least for the division, so I’d classify it as a “must win” game. For a team that’s only stopped one good rushing team in six games this year, that’s a tall order. Stopping the Titans on the ground would put the onus on Kerry Collins, a situation favorable to the Colts. Surely Peyton will play better than this week; I flatly expect it. It will be fascinating to see which Colts team shows up.

I was tempted to go with this, but it’s a long season, so this is probably the more appropriate response (with the dirt being the game that just ended).

I would jump on the other camp if we would have been on a consistent losing streak. These problems aren’t chronic; they’re sporadic. Up and down is what this team is. They showed flashes of greatness. Its there just not consistent.

I think our season plays out like that song from Nickelback (Someday), “how the hell did we wind up like this, why werent we able, to see the signs that we missed”

This is why a rough start sux so bad, cause then we can’t even afford a bad loss.

the week sucks slightly less.

And what did he do with Peyton Manning?

Take out the two interceptions and Gonzo runs his TD in and we win by a point, in magical hypothetical land where the game otherwise remains exactly the same. I thought we were poor, but not horrible – Grant was largely stopped – 3.4 ypc! – and Rodgers moved the ball but didn’t kill us…

For me, it was the offense. Again. We just can’t turn the ball over like that against good teams and expect to win.

If Marv and Wayne can’t get no separation, change the routes. Rhodes did well, he did carried the whole ground load. The O line did well also. Manning is not himself, yet.

D-line needs to get off their innitial tackle and focus on stopping the damn run..!
Penalties, flags, refs, all make me sick, although we were guilty of 3/4 of those calls.
Someone has to get on this guys faces and make something happen. We missed several key tackles again, that would have put us in great position. It seemed we could not stop the passing game either.

What a mess….

Vinatieri, is it me or is he always missing a key field goal that gets everyones moral down. I’ve seen plenty of kickers around the league making very difficult kicks. With pressure, from a distance, but making them. How is Adam, who is so experienced missing this field goals?, or allowing them to be blocked?. I know that with enough push from the defense, he might not be able to do anything. But you should be able to kick it high. Very disappointing.

Oh, and I think we should have gone for the 4th down early in the game, later the Packs converted one. I was pissed..

Got to go for now…but against Tennesse next week. Does not look good.

I’m not feelin’ to good myself…

This is the only lyric I can think that adequately sums it up.

I think Jennings should be taken out back and put down – that many mental mistakes/penalties are inexcusable from anyone at this level. Especially the “defensive delay of game” penalty that was simply bush league and should never be tolerated by this organization.

Peyton…well…just wasn’t Peyton. Two pick-six?? Wha??? The friggin penalties were really pissing me off. The D couldn’t stop GB from scoring (of course, by the middle of the game they were exhausted from our 3-and-outs)

Dungy not going for it on 4th and 1 – that I didn’t like. And not throwing the challenge flag – that was a catch – was a mistake.

Its just a bad game. They were not playing at all like themselves. I think that they were so dominant against Baltimore, that they started believing what everyone was saying :“The Colts are back”. I think they took that for granted.

Go Colts…please?!