For this old timer it harkens back to 1975. You had a young franchise QB (jones) with a first year coach(Marchibroda) with a lot of young talent on both sides of the ball. The team started slowly(1-4) but the talent started to jell
and the team went through the rest of their schedule like a runaway locomotive. And on a foggy day in Memorial stadium they beat the mighty
Dolphins of Don Shula and secured the division crown.
This year feels a lot like that. They may or may not make the playoffs(I think
they will) but then as now you get the feeling that this is the start of something big. It's been a good experience, among the better ones I've had in
the decades I've been following sports.

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They actually secured the division title the following week, when they beat the Patriots in the season finale ........ both teams were tied at 9-4 after that overtime win over the Dolphins in Week 13, and Miami beat Denver on Saturday afternoon on national television the next week to finish at 10-4.

The 9-4 Colts KO'd the Patriots the following day (Sunday) to close out the season at 10-4, and took the AFC East crown due to a 2-game sweep over the Dolphins in head-on play.


http://www.jt-sw.com/football/pro/re...Teams/1975-bal


http://www.jt-sw.com/football/pro/re...Teams/1975-mia

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By "secured" I meant that it put them in the drivers seat to win the division,
which they did the following week as you correctly pointed out. Kind of
like how the U.S. hockey team's win over the USSR did not give them the
Gold medal right then and there, they still had to beat Finland.

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Mariota is questionable for Sunday Night's nationally televised showdown with the Colts.


Titans Uncertain if Mariota will Play vs. Colts

(By Kevin Hickey)

https://coltswire.usatoday.com/2018/...colts-week-17/

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He will play

First quarter, at least. Who knows when he will be knocked out of the game. Maybe we should start a poll...

Depends on which Colts defense shows up.

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In my rats' ass of an opinion, the Colts got the best of both worlds in their game against the Giants.

They played crappy for more than half of the game, but still won ........ so they got a wake-up call to remind them that they were not necessarily as great as they looked in their 23-0 shutout against the Cowboys, yet they still managed to escape said game with a win to keep their playoff hopes alive.


I suspect that the defense will play better against the Titans, although not necessarily as well as they played in their previous meeting in Indianapolis, which the Colts easily won by a score of 38-10 ........ and only 3 of those 10 points that the Titans scored that day occurred when it actually mattered.


Reich should have them ready for this game, and I foresee that they will win by about 13 points ........ about halfway in between their margin of victory against the Giants (1) and their margin of victory against the Titans in their previous match-up (28.)

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wtf is that guy going on about?!