ENOUGH ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by DevilsReject on Nov 30, 2009 2:19 AM EST
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PrintYet another one of those,"The Colts are greaaat, BUT!!!" articles. As I'm sure many of you have seen BBS going off on these, it's just gotten rather idiotic.
Sure, lets remind everyone that the Colts have failed to do this and that in the playoffs, yet are always great in the regular season. Let's bring up the comparisons to the Atlanta Braves, only to forget that the Braves always at least made it to the World Series before losing ala Buffalo Bills.
Here's what I don't get. The press acts like the Colts have had it easy. The Colts have played in the toughest conference in the NFL for the last decade. They have lost in the playoffs to the AFC representative in the SB 4 of their last 9 playoff appearances, only the loss in 2004 to the Patriots being any kind of blowout game.
Of the Colts losses in the playoffs, they've had 2 decided in OT (which is crap) and 1 blow out.
It's like it's okay to bash on the Colts for their losses, while teams like the Cowboys, Chargers, and the Eagles (who've been closer far more than the Colts) all get passes. All of those teams have had better overall teams (defense, special teams, and offense to some extent) yet have failed far more than us. At least we get there, at least we win a game here or there.....and at least we won a SB when we got there...
Other than the Patriots and Steelers (both established winning franchises), only the Eagles have shown any ability to be consistently in the playoffs once they've lost in the SB. The rest of the teams that have lost in the SB have for the most part fallen apart and are licking the bottom of the barrel.
I guess I'm just getting tired of these guys playing the woulda coulda shoulda but didnt card after every game where they pick the Colts to lose and they don't. For once, I'd just like to see a respectful article without the BUT being written all over it by the way it's written.
For the record, I do agree with some of what he says, it's just I'm tired of the media reporting like this....
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Here's what I say:
Let em sleep on the Colts all the way to February.
He's just mad because he picked Houston to beat the spread
That, or his fantasy team just got beat by the team with Peyton Manning on it.
Whatever. Who cares. The Colts don’t cheat, they don’t do drugs, they don’t marry supermodels, they don’t even get mad. The mediots don’t have anything more to write about them so they’ll beat the “football’s Braves” angle to death for the next seven weeks.
Fine. Great. I’m over it.
"The best defensive player is the sideline." - Trevor Pryce, on how to stop Peyton Manning
Look it's the MEDIA...
They’ve got to make money somehow, and they make money by being douches.
Oh no!
This is the third straight hit piece he's written.
He’s a buthurt Pats lover.
Colts will only get credit if they make it to the SB.
And so it shall be.
Manning 2009 MVP
by INDYCOLTSROCK18 on Nov 30, 2009 9:57 AM EST reply actions
Ignore it already
If you expect the media to say “OMG The Colts are Great!”, then you have a problem dude. Won’t happen. It’s easier that Tony Romo becomes a good qb before the media giving some credit to the Colts.
It would need to be an undefeated season and yet wouldn’t be enough. More “buts” will come down as the season goes.
"We’re only going to score 17 points? haha...OK" - Tom Brady
My problem
Is not the media saying the Colts are good….
It’s the underhanded way of saying what they are saying. I’d simply rather they come out and say the Colts got lucky and that they’ll blow it in the first round than say it all sweet n cute…
It’s just annoying, especially when you have to listen to most of these I dont have a clue reporters talk like they are John Madden…
by DevilsReject on Nov 30, 2009 11:12 AM EST up reply actions
The 41-0 loss to the Jets in the playoffs still hurts!
I got angry at the article yesterday, but I’ve moved on from it. Part of it is, I have the same fears. I can’t celebrate regular season success as we know it is no guarantee of playoff success. So, yeah, I’m worried. But these guys are playing their hearts out and as a fan I have to believe this will be the year. If we’re lucky as everyone is saying, aren’t we due for some playoffs luck? Whatever, this team will make its own luck.
back when i was younger
I would say much younger, but I’m only 29, so really, just ‘younger’, when I was in college, akward, odd, geeky, etc.. there was this beautiful goddess of a woman. Who cared if she was smart, sensible, had a great sense of humour – she was hot! Anyhow, we were friends through friends, so to speak, but one day, probably because i lost a bet or was really drunk or was snort industrial paint thinner, I asked her out.
Now, you have to understand, I never asked pizza to be delivered to my dorm room, so this was quite a development. Anyhow, this isnt really about me and my ticks. The point is, she said yes. But the whole time I was waiting to go out with her, I thought it was a joke. Then I went out with her on our first date, and I still thought, ‘hmm, someone’s putting her up to this’. Then we went out on a second date and I was like, okay, clearly she’s going to shove a shaving cream pie in my face at the end of the night. By the third date, when, you know, we started holding hands and wearing each others letterman sweaters (these are euphamisms) I still wasn’t fully convinced I was having the wool pulled over my eyes.
“Whats your point, douchebag?”, you’re asking me, although we’re not in the same room and I can’t hear you. Well, sometimes its hard to sit back and enjoy a wonderful ride because it seems too good to be true. Sometimes your judgement is so clouded by fear of failure or maybe even fear of past results that you forget to realize and enjoy the hear and now. Maybe the Colts will do what everyone is saying – maybe they’ll have a great regular season, 15-1 or 16-0 – and then falter in the playoffs. Maybe they will “embarass” themselves (media term) and anger us. Maybe. We never know for sure.
But its just possible, just possible, that we wake up one monday morning next to the hot chick we felt we had no business being with, only to find out we were meant for each other all along, and all the fear and worries and mental blocks were keeping us from enjoying something special.
Never doubt Peyton Manning, he’ll make you look silly
Joseph Addai is a good running back.
Im a douchebag, an asshole, and I'm rarely right.
You guys missed the whole point...
The beautiful girl was symbolic, a metaphor. Haven’t you ever read Hemingway? The beautiful girl was really Stampede Blue and he was describing his eventual acceptance into its forums.
Excellent.
I always try to enjoy the here and now. I’ll worry about the playoffs when they get here.
"I am in favor of censorship ‐ not against what is supposed to be sexy or dirty, but against what is idiotic." -Jean Renoir
Random fact of the week from the empty void that is my mind: What should you do if a hot dog vendor gives you a free hot dog? Why, throw it on the ground, of course.
Here's one reason
Ron Borges, resident Patriot hater, of the Boston Herald had an interesting point that explains why the Colts might not be taken as seriously as they would like to be.
The Colts now win the way the Patriots used to. They win in a way that leaves their opponents believing when the game is over that they should have won, could have won and surely will win next time – even though they shouldn’t, they couldn’t and they won’t.
It’s the way the Patriots used to make the Colts, the Steelers, the Rams and so many others feel during their run to three Super Bowl victories by a field goal each, as well as that record 21-game, regular-season winning streak that the new Colts are in position to tie next Sunday.
They used to beat you to death with a velvet hammer. They shot you with a silencer. They won so often by virtue of a late defensive play or a last-minute drive to a winning field goal that it could lead a nitwit like Joey Porter to holler, "They are NOT ON OUR LEVEL!" even after the Patriots had beaten them again.
Keep the faith!
by Marima on Nov 30, 2009 11:42 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
Time will tell....
The key is securing the division and getting that #1 seed in the AFC. Step one has been accomplished.
However, we have all seen this before. We go 12-4 or 13-3 or 14-2 then tank in the playoffs. Jason Cole’s article is simply a journalist doing his job. He is simply stating the facts about the Colts and our history in the playoffs. This is a tough, bitter pill to swallow. We all know it, this includes the players, coaches, Colts mgt and of course the fans. Those playoffs loses are so painful, but hopefully the team builds from those situations and uses them to make themselves better.
Bob Kravitz had a great article in the Star before the season started about Manning and his legacy. Everyone loves Manning because he won a superbowl. The real question is what can he (as well as the rest of the organization) do for the next couple seasons while he is in his prime. Great question. I look forward to seeing what happens……
I agree, enough already.
The Media is sick. They need to be on medication.
But if the only thing that will shut them up is a playoff win, well, it’s coming folks. I can feel it. GO COLTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"You can't defend the perfect throw, what can I say?" Peyton quoting Marino
"As I grow older, the list of people who can kiss my ass grows longer"-Ancient Hoosier Proverb.
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