The Colts play the Bears tonight in the season opener. Kickoff is 8:15. One of the few downsides to having had the Colts be successful over the past several years is that they play at night way too often. I hate night games. Oh well. Just glad to have the Colts playing again. As always, Stampede Blue is the best site around for keeping up on the Colts.
That…was…an abomination. Ugh!
Treat it as a preseason game. Peyton, covered with rust, was still just inches off on a few plays that might have kept it close.
Trouble is, the league has been watching our games for going on a decade now. We haven’t changed up much in that time. So when we’re healthy, or clicking, it still works. When we’re not, they know what’s coming. Usually the first casualty of that is our ground game. When the first few passes go awry, they can really stuff our run.
We’ll be ok. Maybe 11-5 ok or so. If the injury bug hits, 10-6 or a bit worse. But still we should do better than we showed last night.
I hope that stadium gets LOUD with the roof closed, or else we’re going to have to pipe some noise in.
Tom Brady’s out. While viewers were left to wait for news, it looks to me like an ACL tear, and that’s what’s starting to trickle out. The trainer/team physician was doing a “Lachman’s test” on the knee (that pulling and pushing on the knee that was shown on close-up), and the knee had a lot more movement than it should have. This isn’t a “Willie McGinnest knee”, but an actual injury and looks like we’ll see him in a year or so.
“Peyton, covered with rust, was still just inches off on a few plays that might have kept it close.”
Yeah, except when he was blasting passes into the ground a few feet in front of him – Reggie and Marvin can take a lot of pressure off the offense, but you can’t expect them to make every play all game long. People will catch on and they are going to get banged up.
No line = no run and rushed passes – this looks like the Colts of 2003 . . .