The Packers Win vs. the Titans Loss. Which was More important ???

[Colts And Orioles]

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For obvious reasons, if the Colts could switch the results of the games with the Packers and the Titans, they would. For the purposes of winning the division, tie-breakers, etc, a win over a team in your own division (particularly when that particular team is the only one which is rivaling you for the title) is much more important than a win over an opponent that is not even in your conference.


However ........ in this particular case, I believe that the win over the Packers is actually more important for the franchise in the long run (both for this season AND for 2021 and beyond) than a win and a subsequent sweep over the Titans would have been. I believe that the Packers are a better team than are the Titans, and are bonafide Super Bowl contenders. Beating the Packers in the fashion that the Colts did (twice overcoming a 14-point deficit, and also overcoming losing an extremely important coin-toss in overtime) showed that the Colts themselves are probably not very far off from being at least AFC title contenders, if not necessarily Super Bowl contenders themselves. To me, the loss to the Titans showed 2 things that we all already know...... 1) that the Colts, as good of a team that they usually are, are still capable of shitting the bed in any given game. And 2) that the Colts were missing several key players in the game against the Titans, which very likely was at least partially responsible for the ass-kicking that the Titans administered against them.


So yes, if you had told me 2 weeks ago that the Colts would go 1-1 over their next 2 games, I would have said that I preferred a win over the Titans than a win over the Packers ...... but with hindsight, even though the loss to the Titans now means that the Colts' road to a 2020 AFC South championship title will be considerably harder than if they had won that game, I still would not switch the results of the 2 games. I still believe that a clutch win over a very solid Aaron Rodgers-led Packers team is more important in the long run than a loss to their division-rival Titans and a (now) harder road to hoe for this seasons's AFC South title.

o