Football purgatory thread. Bill Barnwell wrote the article. Interesting read if you're bored. Not that I agree with everything, but at least it's a guy that doesn't default to the Super Bowl winner as the best team of a season (2004 Patriots and 2004 Steelers both made the list, for example).
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...agles-seahawks
Colts get the #12 spot with the 2007 team, and Honorable Mention with the 2006 team, and are referenced many times in other teams' entries. That includes 2009 Saints which mentions that the 2009 Colts narrowly missed the list.
2005 Colts are not mentioned, which is silly. I think that team edges out the 2007 team, but they were the best two. After that, 2006 gets the bronze. 2004 vs. 2009 is interesting and I could lean either way.
Without analyzing the entire list, I think the Colts should've made top-10 at least because '05, '06, and '07 were better than the 2002 Bucs and the 2010 Packers.