Playing Down to Their Competiton ...... Not the 2025 Colts

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COLTS lll 41 lll - lll TITANS llllll 20

COLTS lll 40 lll - ll. RAIDERS lll. 6



Even when Andrew Luck was taking snaps behind center between 2012 and 2018, the Colts had a general reputation of "playing down to their competition" ...... games that were expected to be relatively easy wins often wound up being down-to-the-wire nailbiters.

The 2025 Colts appear to be different, though ...... after demolishing the Dolphins on Opening Day, the Colts have racked up 2 blowout wins against sub-par competition.


Will this pattern of taking care of business against weaker teams continue for the remainder of the 2025 season, or will the Colts revert back to what was their reputation prior to 2025 ??? Just the fact that this question is being asked in the first place has many Colts fans breathing huge sighs of relief. Not since Peyton Manning's prime years with the franchise between 1999 and 2010 has the team regularly steamrolled teams that they were expected to.

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(vs. CARDINALS, 10/12)



The Colts played down to their competition today ...... but as I said in the game-thread, sometimes you have to win games when you play badly.

Good teams find ways to win games in spite of their own bad play.

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[omahacolt]

this defense is garbage

[HoosierinFL]

Originally Posted by omahacolt

this defense is garbage

They really are even accounting for injuries in the secondary which are sort of beyond anyone’s control.

Pass rush just not good enough. I can’t wait to see Franklin playing literally any other team but this one.

[Hoopsdoc]

I have t watched the game yet but from just looking at the box score it seems like they sold out to stop the run and dared Brissett to beat them.

And he almost did.

[sherck]

Through six weeks of the 2024 NFL season, the Colts have scored 194 points....

which is more than any Colts team ever....even those helmed by Peyton Manning.

This season is crazy....

[YDFL Commish]

Originally Posted by sherck

Through six weeks of the 2024 NFL season, the Colts have scored 194 points....

which is more than any Colts team ever....even those helmed by Peyton Manning.

This season is crazy....

That is fukn wild!

[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by sherck

Through six weeks of the 2024 NFL season, the Colts have scored 194 points ...... which is more than any Colts team ever ...... even those helmed by Peyton Manning.

This season is crazy ......

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The 1968 Colts had 186 points through 6 games.

1967 Colts had 185 points through 6 games.

Both of those teams only lost 1 regular-season game, and the 1967 Colts did not even make the playoffs because Pete Rozelle was a moron.

Considering the rules at that time, which included being allowed to continually bump a receiver as many times as you wanted before the ball was in the air, those 1967 and 1968 teams were probably among the best offenses ever ...... the upset loss to the Jets in the 1968 Super Bowl was astounding, and the missing of the playoffs in 1967 was arguably one of the biggest injustices in pro football history.

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[YDFL Commish]

Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles

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The 1968 Colts had 186 points through 6 games.

1967 Colts had 185 points through 6 games.

Both of those teams only lost 1 regular-season game, and the 1967 Colts did not even make the playoffs because Pete Rozelle was a moron.

Considering the rules at that time, which included being allowed to continually bump a receiver as many times as you wanted before the ball was in the air, those 1967 and 1968 teams were probably among the best offenses ever ...... the upset loss to the Jets in the 1968 Super Bowl was astounding, and the missing of the playoffs in 1967 was arguably one of the biggest injustices in pro football history.

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IMO, the 1967 team was superior to the 1968 team, if only because that was the last season of the Johnny U dominance.