The division is lost, Colts need to hope for a wild card spot.

What kills me is that it seems one play opens the floodgates. Tonight it came in the 3rd, Colts up 14-6. Tennessee throws incomplete on 3rd down, Colts to get the ball back. But no, Marlin Jackson called for illegal contact, drives stays alive and Titans tie it. This has been the theme all season: PI vs. Jax costs that game; numerous dumb penalties vs. GB turn a tight game into a blowout.

As for the offense, too predictable, no rhythm. Throwing a 2-yard pass on 3rd and 3? Then missing it on 4th and 1. This team can easily finish below .500 given its schedule. Only bright spot is getting some players back and I thought Ugoh played pretty well.

I gotta admit after this one I’m going to have to lower my emotional investment in this team.

What’s up with the offense? On 3rd and 2 in the middle of the field where you’re willing to go for it on 4th and 2 and you’re running game is finally working you instead throw 2 incomplete passes?!?

Numerous short yardage situations we throw deep incomplete passes?!?
What’s wrong with 1st downs?!?

Sorry. I’m feeling pretty sick right now.

admit it, the titans are for real. it was a good game throughout and ill give you guys that. it might be time to start rethinking some things in indy.

mainly because Vince Young is not at the helm. And, the Colts (without Sanders) are most likely going to continue to struggle. With Sanders they have a chance at being above average, without him,…….well……..you’ve seen it for a couple of weeks now. It’s too bad our defensive success centers around a player who is hurt for long periods of time.

It would be nice to watch one game were the better team actually wins and the refs actually do there job……..maybe they did but hell if I could tell.
Short spot after short spot after short spot + game changing bad calls = what a surprise…

Only way refs could have helped Tenn more is if they ran the ball in themselves.

I think we did pretty good at stooping their rushing game today, and our o line was fantastic ,and we ran the ball pretty good. But peyton and the receivers are out of sync, and the thats the truth. peyton and his receivers are stinking right now. everybody blames the defense but the truth is that our offensive is to blame. peyton and harrison are really sucking this year.

All this cup is half full garbage is sickening. The receivers who are paid a LOT to receive should not have such horrible stats as I am seeing here:

 Indianapolis Rec Yds Avg Long
D. Clark 7 94 13.4 26
D. Rhodes 8 39 4.9 12
R. Wayne 3 29 9.7 14
A. Gonzalez 4 27 6.8 12
C. Simpson 2 24 12.0 15
M. Harrison 1 12 12.0 12

THREE of these players are supposed to make GAME CHANGING, GAME WINNING plays week in and week out. That’s what they are paid to do. Only dallas showed up today (and it was great to see him finally not have to block enough to be able to show up) however, teams that win don’t have marquee players consistently laying eggs like this.

That includes Peyton. He is playing like crap along with them. It all starts there.

Put down the blue kool-aid in the horseshoe cup- The Titans have the division and the Colts will be lucky to somehow get a wildcard.

Funny you went on and on and on about how Indy would kick the Titans’ asses and Indy went out there and laid another egg. Did they look good at times? Of course…but wtf cares if you look good for a bit and shit for the rest? Oakland looks good at times.

The D played great in the first half but they gave up way too many 3rd and longs in the 2nd. I counted I believe 4, with 3 on that game tying td drive. THIS IS NOT GOOD DEFENSE.

The CBs give up huge cushions which every fuggin time prove to be useless. How dumb do people (ahem, the players. coaches) need to be to see it doesn’t not work. My fav was one I saw Jennings do late in the game where he ended up 12 yards off the guy on a 3rd and long play. Did he really think the guy was going to go for a 40 yard pass and not get the easy 1st down? The cushion shit is STUPID and these guys need to quit worrying about giving up the big play and instead focus on stopping easy 1st downs. IT IS NOT HARD TO GRASP. If they need to give a cushion that big to cover then they shouldn’t be in the NFL.

The offense…talk about pathetic. Not just this game but pretty much all season. Peyton is making decisions like Eli of old, the running game shows glimpses of being useful then crashes and burns, Marvin and Reggie rarely seem to get decently open and when they do they seem to drop the ball 33% of the time, 33% of the time they catch it and the other 33% of the time Manning under or overthrows them. This pathetic offensive performance thus far is killing them this season.

What I find hilarious though is just how Indy goes about things on O. They watched their opponents go on nice long scoring drives and instead of try and do the same and eat the clock since you KNOW your D can’t be on the field forever they go for quick scores. It almost seems as if Peyton is TRYING to punish the D maybe for how they blew it vs the Chargers when he and the offense had a great day. Maybe JUST MAYBE they should work on better ball control and they can do that with constant short passes if the running game isn’t working.

Anyway, the team has been garbage this season, I see nothing logical that says it will magically turn around and tonight’s loss was all on the offense for being useless. There are things that HAVE improved as the season has gone on but wtf good does that do if one area improves while everything else regresses? Run D is better but pass pressure is worse as is coverage. Rushing improved but the passing is worse.

The best thing I can say is the OL in terms of pass blocking is improving each week but it doesn’t seem to matter since Manning either can’t make good reads OR the guys are simply not getting open which is pathetic if so.

Oh and I am sure some fans will say the pass D was decent because Collins’ numbers were low. SO!? He was GOING for short passes and anyone with an IQ above 80 realizes that if you continually make short passes you eat up clock and move down the field. THIS IS WHY INDY’S PASS D SUCKS. They may not give up the long play but they get killed by the efficient 5-10 yarders.

34 mins to 25 ToP says it all…

Nice to also see Marvin, perhaps the 2nd best WR in nfl history be schooled all game by Nick Harper. Pathetic.

I will be happy if Indy finishes at 8-8 this season and Peyton can have under 20 INTs. I am hoping, and truly believe, that this is simply a freakish season and in 09 they will be back to being the Colts we know and love but I will say they really need to re-think their defensive scheme. Teams are adapting to how you attack indy’s D (quick, short passes) so they NEED to adapt to these teams. If they don’t they will see the same shit next season and beyond. This rests all on the coaching staff and I like Dungy but he sure seems to be out of it and doesn’t grasp that things change.