Quick Recap, Great gamblers win sometimes
As is their style, the Saints played an aggressive risky gameplan. As with the previous 18 games their gambles paid off. Calling the Saints gamblers is not a slap at their talent. A team that isn't elite doesn't make it to the Super Bowl, let alone be close enough to put the game on the line.
The Saints went for it on 4th down on the goal line, they opened the 2nd half with a surprise onside attempt, and Tracy Porter put the exclamation point on the game in a style that perfectly reflects the Saints attitude. Up just a score the Saints stayed aggressive. Porter jumped Reggie Wayne's route, risking the tying TD, but his success ended the game on the spot.
The Saints made it to the Super Bowl and were in position to win because they are a Championship worthy team, they won because their gambling style succeeded more than it failed them.
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I would start with a return guy and a kicker.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Stampede Blue's Resident Steelers Fan
Oneil Cousins is the Steelers' best Offensive Lineman
Frank Walker is their best CB.
by LV Steelers Fan on Feb 7, 2010 10:05 PM EST up reply actions
Vinny will be back...
we can rebuild him. lol
Go Colts!
by Marked Hoosier on Feb 7, 2010 10:06 PM EST up reply actions
thank god for alcohol..
i can laugh
Go Colts!
by Marked Hoosier on Feb 7, 2010 10:06 PM EST up reply actions
Fuck class and work tomorrow.
Remember folks, I'm almost always wrong.
My sig was too long...
by Scott Coleman on Feb 7, 2010 10:05 PM EST via mobile reply actions 1 recs
Still a great season for the Colts
No regets at all. Great team, just got outplayed in the big game. Saints definitely earned it tonight.
Insert Clever Statement Here
by MrNFL on Feb 7, 2010 10:05 PM EST reply actions 7 recs
no shit...
did their receivers have crazy glue on their hands or what/
Go Colts!
by Marked Hoosier on Feb 7, 2010 10:06 PM EST up reply actions
I'm gonna rec this
and it should be turned green!
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Rec'd it.
2 more for greenness.
"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: THE COLTS ARE IN THE SUPER BOWL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+1
I am a Jags fan,but i must congratulate you on a very good season and thank you for giving me and my friends at our super bowl party a great game to watch and may you be blessed next year
by jesusjagfan2009 on Feb 8, 2010 11:24 AM EST up reply actions
He was just unreal
Peyton was great before the INT, too.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Stampede Blue's Resident Steelers Fan
Oneil Cousins is the Steelers' best Offensive Lineman
Frank Walker is their best CB.
by LV Steelers Fan on Feb 7, 2010 10:06 PM EST up reply actions
i knew the game would be decided on a play by the defenses...
and it ends up the Saints D made the bigger play.
Go Colts!
by Marked Hoosier on Feb 7, 2010 10:07 PM EST up reply actions
Pretty much.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Stampede Blue's Resident Steelers Fan
Oneil Cousins is the Steelers' best Offensive Lineman
Frank Walker is their best CB.
by LV Steelers Fan on Feb 7, 2010 10:10 PM EST up reply actions
this hurts alot
but Im feeling optimistic for next season. We have alot of young players that have gained valuable experience and a great corp of guys that we can continue to build on. We are going to get guys that were on IR (Sanders, Gonzo) and we will get a new crop of rookies to help shore up some positions of need. Again this one will hurt for quite some time, but I feel good about about the future. To me it looks bright
Exactly...
the NFL should be scared shitless. The Colts will be great next year. The D will be stacked and the O line should get better through the draft and the run will hopefully open up
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Good game by the Saints
IMHO we were out-coached more than out-played. Between the conservative three run series at the end of the first half, the on-side kick and the soft pass defense it made it tough to compete.
"Hey, quit callin' the f@&%in' plays, alright?...When we call pass plays, BLOCK!" - #18
Next year will be interesting in the AFC
The Colts, coming off of a devastating SB loss.
The Chargers getting ravaged by free agency.
The Pats getting old on offense and sucky on defense.
The Steelers getting old on defense and coming off of a disappointing season.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Stampede Blue's Resident Steelers Fan
Oneil Cousins is the Steelers' best Offensive Lineman
Frank Walker is their best CB.
by LV Steelers Fan on Feb 7, 2010 10:09 PM EST reply actions
I'll take the Colts on that,
because that’s the only situation that doesn’t affect the talent.
"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: THE COLTS ARE IN THE SUPER BOWL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you obviously dont know shit about my team
Non Sibi Sed Patriae.
i love my ZX-6r Kawasaki.
I bleed Scarlet and Grey...A Buckeye for Life
Completely OT
But there was no follow up to the Tebow ad, was there? Some controversy…
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Stampede Blue's Resident Steelers Fan
Oneil Cousins is the Steelers' best Offensive Lineman
Frank Walker is their best CB.
by LV Steelers Fan on Feb 7, 2010 10:11 PM EST reply actions
Our D turned into the D they used to say we have.
Our defense played exactly like the old colts D. Its not like the Saints offense was throwing to well covered receivers with linemen in their face, half the catches I saw I could have caught and ran for a few yards at least. There wasn’t anyone around. Not to mention, I thought we played about as conservative on offense as is humanly possible. My only complain all year about our team was that we were boring. You can say it works, but eventually it won’t. You have to take risks if you want to make it in so many aspects of life, what makes a football game any different? The Saints earned it. I would love to complain about how they weren’t about to call anything on the Saints, and the “new orleans as a town deserves a win because of a hurricane” bullshit, but I was getting just about as sick about all of the blind “the colts are robots” crap on TV too. Maybe this year we will do something drastic or at the very least exciting. I know im spoiled, but I would rather be exciting than lose in the most boring way possible.
the key to the game
The Saints O-line owned the Colts D-line from the late second quarter and on. and their receivers out muscled the colts D-backs
by jesusjagfan2009 on Feb 8, 2010 11:26 AM EST up reply actions
The only really sad thing about this is
that Peyton only has so many years left. Any opportunity gone is gone forever.
"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: THE COLTS ARE IN THE SUPER BOWL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it is football...
teams win superbowls. we got beat by a better team today. We still got ours 3 years ago, and if you told me years ago when I started watching the Colts that we would win one I would say you were crazy.
Go Colts!
by Marked Hoosier on Feb 7, 2010 10:21 PM EST up reply actions
I get you.
Still sucks.
"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: THE COLTS ARE IN THE SUPER BOWL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yep
Like I said, next year will fare well for us, we can only get better
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But being the best team
doesn’t always guarantee being in the big game. We’ve seen so many #1 or #2 seeds not make it. I get exactly what Cass is saying
No
but it sure helps
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gambles paid off for the Saints today
He’s always open. He catches a lot of balls. He’s un-guardable, no matter how old he is
The D was good in the first half
but the Saints tore it up in the second half. The D forgot how to tackle. I say if we would have had our away jerseys we would be the winners =/
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the d tried to make turnovers...
which never came.
Go Colts!
by Marked Hoosier on Feb 7, 2010 10:22 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah
they seemed to forget how to wrap up. I did like the run game for our O though. Addai has some big gains
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he just plays out of his mind in Super Bowls. :)
Go Colts!
by Marked Hoosier on Feb 7, 2010 10:31 PM EST up reply actions
I made the same comment
to a buddy I was watching with. Why can’t he do that during the regular season. I’m hoping an O line draft will help that
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Well,
I just opened up a lot of time for myself. Everything that was pre-Super Bowl that I hadn’t read yet is now gone from my computer. No point in reading it anymore, including any pre-Super Bowl comments on this site.
I’ll probably also be sporadic for a week or so on here and other sites. I’ll probably be back to my usual routine next week sometime.
For now, I’m out to play some Super Mario Bros. Wii. Repeatedly getting pwned by Lakitu is a pretty good way to take your mind off of a loss like this.
"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: THE COLTS ARE IN THE SUPER BOWL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey maybe the other teams and media now see though that the run game isn't bad (this won't happen though)
The Horses font feet have cleared the huddle and as time slows it is also time for the back feet to clear and for us to declare victory!!!!! GO COLTS!!!
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All I have to say as a Jets fan is :
Manning is NO Choker at all. I don’t care what the Trolls say. The Defender just made a brilliant INT for a TD. That’s all it was. I respect Manning and what he means to the game. I hope Mark Sanchez can become even REMOTELY like Peyton as he matures.
But all that said, after the Colts players talked garbage to the Jets AFTER the Fact(Game, that is) and taunted them, I’m afraid that Karma came back and bit them in the butt. And I can’t exactly shed tears for this Team after that.
Also, while some here will say that the "Perfect Season" won’t matter, just the Superbowl, Here’s something to consider :
The rationale for resting the Colts players and not going full-out to win the final two games was to have them Ready and Healthy to win the SuperBowl. Now that THAT plan went up in smoke, There is no Perfect Season, No SuperBowl, No Nothing. Just an empty feeling as if everything that occured(having 14-2 record, getting to the Superbowl) never happened. No one remembers the Runner-up in the SuperBowl and that’s a sad but true fact.
Oh well…That’s okay. Indy is STILL the Team to beat in the AFC so long as Peyton Manning lives and Breathes. I look forward to my Jets getting another crack at Defeating The Master next year. Enjoy your offseason, Colts fans! Especially to those Classy ones. :)
The Un-classy and Jerk ones? I can tell you all what to do with yourselves but I’d rather not get banned…..Take Care.
Okay I will shut the flying fuck up about Karma.
It was actually Execution but…I don’t want to repeat myself again. lol.
why you saying it again
The Horses font feet have cleared the huddle and as time slows it is also time for the back feet to clear and for us to declare victory!!!!! GO COLTS!!!
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by TheAngelsColts on Feb 7, 2010 10:29 PM EST up reply actions
yea not a good idea to post it multiple times
The Horses font feet have cleared the huddle and as time slows it is also time for the back feet to clear and for us to declare victory!!!!! GO COLTS!!!
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by TheAngelsColts on Feb 7, 2010 10:34 PM EST up reply actions
My bad.
Don’t want to be viewed as some idiotic troll. (Psst…I’m no troll. lol)
ok good just warning you :)
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by TheAngelsColts on Feb 7, 2010 10:37 PM EST up reply actions
Not a toll
but we have heard enough about karma to make any sane person off himself. Karma has nothing to with football. You can thank your boy crackback for the word karma annoying the piss out of us
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Oh you mean...
The Middle-Finger man Ryan? You saw the pictures? His hand looks like a bunch of sausages. lol.
And anyway, it was EXECUTION…I’ll quit it on the Karma-crap. This ain’t Voodoo….
The Saints
fans beg to differ. They posted some voodoo spell here the other day…talk about weird
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The Saints fans..umm....
…they are an “interesting” bunch, aren’t they? (trying to be nice….barely)
They
messed up. They think stats are overrated and made up by the media. Some were cool, but we had a lot that were just….I dont even know.
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Wow...just...wow.
ARe they serious? If stats are overrated, how the hell is Dan Marino in the Hall of fame without an SuperBowl victory?
Take a look at Kurt Warner…..He’s been to 3 Superbowls, and won once. He’s going to the Hall Of Fame one day.
Peyton has now been to his 2nd Superbowl and has won once out of the two.
New Orleans fans need to chill out and enjoy their moment in the sun ‘cause they’re right now letting their emotions speak for them instead of their brains.
Well this was
before the SB, but still. The numbers don’t lie.
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I bet they try using stats now againt us somehow
The Horses font feet have cleared the huddle and as time slows it is also time for the back feet to clear and for us to declare victory!!!!! GO COLTS!!!
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by TheAngelsColts on Feb 7, 2010 10:57 PM EST up reply actions
If anything...
Saints fans are now going to say even more idiotic crap. I’d pay no attention. It was a very disappointing end to what was supposed to be a SB Victory but it didn’t happen that way so the 2nd Guessing of you-know-what will begin and continue until Training camp.
Hope Bill Polian decided to take an early vacation ’cause he might have several….thousand hate emails coming his way.
Polian
is a great president. The guy did exactly what he needed to to get his team to the Super Bowl. No Colts fan should be angry with him. After all, we got to the Super Bowl
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MEDIA IS STARTING
The Horses font feet have cleared the huddle and as time slows it is also time for the back feet to clear and for us to declare victory!!!!! GO COLTS!!!
previously known as (ANGELSFAITH)
While
the officiating was good, that false start on Diem was questionable. It looked like offsides to me
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Hard to tell
since CBS couldn’t be bothered to show a replay.
"Hey, quit callin' the f@&%in' plays, alright?...When we call pass plays, BLOCK!" - #18
Thats why
it was a bad call lol
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haha yea really (even the media thought it was offsides
The Horses font feet have cleared the huddle and as time slows it is also time for the back feet to clear and for us to declare victory!!!!! GO COLTS!!!
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by TheAngelsColts on Feb 7, 2010 10:31 PM EST up reply actions
Did anyone else see
the player from the Colts punch that Saints guy when they were piled after the onside kick?
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No, I was too busy watching the most intense scrum this side of rugby.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Stampede Blue's Resident Steelers Fan
Oneil Cousins is the Steelers' best Offensive Lineman
Frank Walker is their best CB.
by LV Steelers Fan on Feb 7, 2010 10:41 PM EST up reply actions
Me too
I just happened to be looking at the right place at the right time.
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damn girl on face book sticking it to me lol
my response ("love ya lol)
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A Smple Fact
The Colts game in and game out are simply outcoached.Their game plan is pedestrian and predictable.A kickoff returner getting stopped inside the 15 is obscene.Manning is the best there is, but his heroics hide weaknesses in other aspects of the team. The coaching staff and management are to blame for not improving the aspects of the team that Manning has no part of. Here is what I feel this team needs to win the Super Bowl.A kick returner,defensive ends that at least attempt to stop a run,tougher bigger linebackers and coaches who understand that to win against elite teams you gotta think outside the box.
A simple fact, refuted
The Colts are rarely, if ever out-coached. The proof is in the come-back victories. Clock managment, play calling etc…Time aftre time this season opposing coaches wilted under the pressure and called bad plays or timeouts and it was the difference. I will concede that sean payton out-coached jim caldwell last night. The on-side kick was devastating. Every screen Peyton manning called was blown up in the backfield. Neither team had many penalties or injuries, though. It was clean, good football on the part of both teams. I thought the Colts did pretty well against the run. Reggie Bush’s yards came on receptions, downfield. When Freeney was fresh he was huge against the run AND the qb. Clearly his ankle was fucked and he wasn’t effective at all after the 1st quarter. Chad Simpson had a good game, too, at least as good a game as NO’s returner had. One time I recall he got caught taking a kick out of the endzone he should have kneeled on. There you go. We obviously watched different superbowls…
by naptown_ninja on Feb 8, 2010 10:46 AM EST up reply actions
Manning isn't a choker
I dislike Manning but i respect the crap out of him….if it was 4th and 3 or less against the Colts vs my team, i would go for it 100 times.
Manning isn’t a chocker, Wayne didn’t established the inside position a WR usually does on a slant and Porter made a great play.
I thought Manning would throw a TD to tie the game and the Saints would drive to get into FG range.
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+1
Manning didn’t make it this far choking. The Saints watched and learned his throwing motions until they finally got him to bite on one and made him pay for it (the proof is the beginning of the forth quarter where the Saints came within a few seconds of a pick)
by jesusjagfan2009 on Feb 8, 2010 11:31 AM EST up reply actions
I, too thought it would come to a Saints FG
either way I was not liking how the game was unfolding
How can you not love a team that does this?
Great game, guys
I don’t think there’s really anything else that can be said at a time like this.
WHODAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dynasty - 2009 - ????
clarifying
That was meant to be a good natured lol… love to see someone believe in their team
Good win yesterday
How can you not love a team that does this?
Thank you, gentleman
It was awful nice talking to a few of y’all’s fans on the csc site. I like y’all’s style.
WHODAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dynasty - 2009 - ????
Well goofed that one royally
It was supposed to be gentlemEn and posted below the comment below. Good thing I wasn’t coaching. But, then again, Coach Payton was looking pretty poorly on his interview first thing this morning, also.
WHODAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dynasty - 2009 - ????
Hank Baskett
The reason we lost. He will have to wear that fumble his entire life. Kendra and his son will have to wear it too. It’s a shame because he is an above average 3rd or 4th receiver for many NFL teams, but he is most likely done in the NFL.
A case could be made for ‘wrong place, wrong time’ but Baskett went from being cut by the Eagels to getting a job with the AFC Champion Colts and having a chance to win a Super Bowl ring. He was only going to be a special team player in the game and a lot of people joke that he never see’s the field etc, but after last night’s fumble nobody can dispute how important every second of playing time is.

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