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2013 Opponents and Expectations

Thought our 2012 scedule was easy? Our 2013 schedule looks to be favorable too. Home: Houston, Jacksonville, Tennessee, Denver, Oakland, St. Louis, Seattle, Miami Away: Houston, Jacksonville, Tennessee, Kansas City, San Diego, Arizona, San Francisco, Cincinnati Wow. Not only do we only have three legit (myabe 4 if you count at Houston) intimidating games (DEN, SEA, SF), but two of them are at home. Seattle should be a good game, but I will concede losses to the Denver Peyton and the SF Capernicks and beast defense at Candlestick. Hopefully the SF game will be later, so our O-line has time to gel, and hopefully The game vs. Denver isn't first or second week of the season to extinguish some of our young teams fire comming out of the gates for next season. One nice thing, though, (and here I recant my rest starters against HOU position) is that we showed HOU in the last game of the season that an even improved Colts roster makes the AFC south our division to lose next year. The psychological victory (that's right, Polian, the game isn't played by robots- psychological edge and momentum are real) may go a long way for us this year and maybe even after. Also, the Texans have the same schedule as us, except a game against Baltimore instead of Cincinati (probably favorable for them), but also a game against the Pats instead of the Dolphins (ha ha). So fans, should we expect 12+ wins from the Colts this year? 3rd seed in the playoffs? Could we maybe one up either Denver or NE next year to snatch a first round bye in the 2013 playoffs? Or is Pete Prisco on SB Nation and ready to tell me that I'm obviously totally stupid and way off about everything?

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