Greatness, or Disaster ??? The Chargers Game Could Send the Colts in Either Direction

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Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles

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The only thing evil about the Colts' loss to the Steeles was the 6 turnovers that they committed in that game.

After that, fate would have it that the Colts' first clutch QB since Philip Rivers in the 2020 season broke his fibula in the loss to the Chiefs, and the rest is Colts disaster history.


I firmly believe that this Colts team/franchise is much closer to the team that started the season at 8-2 prior to Jones breaking his fibula than the team that went 0-6 after that ...... as has become custom to Colts fans, we'll be pining for next year in similar fashion of which Brooklyn Dodgers fans did so many times before finally winning the world championship in 1955 ...... the main difference is that the Dodgers were always bonafide contenders and National League champions many times who were waiting to win the world championship, while Colts fans are waiting for their mediocre team(s) to evolve into a bona-fide contender and a possible candidate for an AFC championship.

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Originally Posted by apballin

The Steelers gave everyone the blueprint that up until that point nobody had a clue the Colts offense was setting records and barely punting. The Steelers showed the NFL stack the line blitz like crazy and make Jones make quick decisions. If Taylor isn’t running well and Jones scripted throw isn’t there he panics and once he starts turning it over, he’ll continue to turn it over.

The Falcons used the Steelers blue-print, and if not for an Epic performance from Jonathan Taylor that would’ve been a loss also.

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So, after the Steelers game, it might have been clear that the Colts' season would be going in the shitter ??? Or as you say, in hindsight, that Steelers game was the blueprint for dismantling the Colts team that started the season at 6-1 before that game, and at 8-2 before Daniel Jones broke his fibula. That's about as dubious a claim that I can imagine in regard to what was the main protagonist in the collapse of the 20-25 Colts season.

The Colts committed 6 turnovers in the Steelers game. After that Steelers game, the Colts had 2 games in which they had 0 turnovers, and they had only 1 or 2 turnovers in all of their other remaining games except for the one against the Jaguars in which they had 3. Anybody who even moderately followed the Colts this season knows that that Daniel Jones breaking his left fibula in the Chiefs game was the biggest factor in their collapse, and the combination of further season-losses to key players (such as DeForest Buckner and Sauce Gardner) created the ideal storm for their collapse. There was no blueprint set by the Steelers, there was the Colts' otherwise mobile quarterback having to run and throw on a broken fibula, there was the team being relegated to a 44 year-old Philip Rivers as their QB after Jones tore his Achilles tendon, and there was the fact that the team was further decimated by season-ending injuries to Buckner and Gardner. If there was a blueprint set by the Steelers, the Colts would have been beaten soundly in almost every game that they played with Jones playing on his broken fibula and with 44 year-old Philip Rivers taking the snaps behind the center.

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