The 2025 Colts Offensive Line

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When I was in 6th grade during the War of 1812, Mr. Martino asked the class ...... "Which part of the team do you start with when you are building a new squad ???" He said that you don't start with the quarterback ...... you don't start with the special teams ..... you don't start with the running backs ...... you don't start with the pass-rushers ...... you start with the offensive line, because without the offensive line, you have nothing.

I still believe that to be true. With a few very rare exceptions, if your team has a bad offensive line, they have nothing. Perhaps if you have a Fran Tarkenton, a Michael Vick, or a Randall Cunningham running around like a maniac, or if you have a Dan Marino with a super-quick release you might be able to get away with having a bad offensive line and still manage to be a contending team ...... but generally speaking, you have nothing with a bad O-Line.

I've said before that good teams find ways to win games when they play badly. The Colts have played 2 bad games this year, winning one of them (against the Cardinals), and losing one of them (against the Steelers.) And the biggest difference in those 2 games was that the Colts' offensive line had its usual solid game against the Cardinals, and they had what was by far their worst game of the year against the Steelers ...... so they managed to win the game in which their defense played badly (against the Cardinals), but they lost the game in which their defense played much better (against the Steelers.) And I find that to be no coincidence (again, going back to the performances of the offensive line.)


There was a time when the motto/phrase for the Colts was, l "So goes Bert Jones, so goes the Colts." l The motto for this 2025 Colts team may very well be, l "So goes the offensive line, so goes the Colts."

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