[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by Pez

Yes, sure, Buffalo was a great game ......

We lost to every AFC playoff team we faced. Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Tennessee (once), Baltimore all in the regular season, then Buffalo in the playoffs. I'm pretty sure we would have lost to the chiefs. We also lost to the jags. If we are talking about close games, we nearly lost to houston, twice.

I'm not saying rivers is better than Brissett, or that Eason is our QB answer. I'm saying we traded a year of our Qb development (whoever that may have been) for our Philip rivers shot at the Super Bowl.

Originally Posted by Dam8610

They beat Green Bay, and would've beaten Tennessee in both games if Buckner wasn't on the COVID list for the second game. Games against playoff teams are hard, so are games against franchise QB's. For the latter portion, ask any AFC South rival about the last 20 years prior to 2019. It was much more enjoyable to watch an 11-5 team that had a puncher's chance in the playoffs than it would've been to watch an 5-11 team where all the talent on this roster went to waste.

o

Correct.

The Colts also choked away the Steelers game late in the season, but they certainly showed (even in that disastrous of a collapse game) that they were right up there with the best teams in the AFC in 2020. And even though they lost to the Ravens in the regular season, they gave the Bills a much better run for their money in the playoffs than did that same Ravens team ...... in my rat's ass of an opinion, this was unquestionably a complete (or near complete) team that was a bona-fide contender for the AFC championship and a trip to the Super Bowl.

o