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

[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles

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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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(NOVEMBER 2nd)



The Colts played badly today ...... they didn't play down to their competition, they just played badly.

So far, the Colts have had 2 bad games this season ...... one against the Cardinals (a win), and one against the Steelers (a loss.)

I said that good teams find ways to win games when they play badly ...... but of course, good teams don't ALWAYS win when they play badly. Sometimes you just play badly, and you lose the game because of it.

I actually think that the Colts played a better game in their loss to the Rams than they did in their win over the Cardinals ...... if you minimize the bad games, then the W-L category will take care of itself over the course of the 17-game season.

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[Hoopsdoc]

If we don’t beat the Falcons Sunday, which I think is a coin flip game, we’re looking at a 3 game losing streak because I dont think there’s any way we’re winning in Kansas City.

After that we get the Texans at home, then we’re at Jax and at Seattle, both of which are probably losses.

I think we’re dangerously close to the wheels coming off. They need to get their shit together.

[Racehorse]

Originally Posted by Hoopsdoc

If we don’t beat the Falcons Sunday, which I think is a coin flip game, we’re looking at a 3 game losing streak because I dont think there’s any way we’re winning in Kansas City.

After that we get the Texans at home, then we’re at Jax and at Seattle, both of which are probably losses.

I think we’re dangerously close to the wheels coming off. They need to get their shit together.

So, we get the Rams at LA, the Chargers in LA, the Steelers in Pitt, the Seahawks in Seattle, Falcons in Germany, and KC in KC. Not sure how almost all of our tough opponents are on the road. Only division foes, the Donks, and the 69ers are at home. Seems fishy to me. Kind of like the Manning years when it seemed every game was at NE.

[Colts And Orioles]

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The Chiefs.

The Texans.

The Jaguars,

The Seahawks,

The 49ers.

The Jaguars.

The Texans.



The term "playing down to their competition" has not/does not apply to the Colts for any of these games.

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[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.

[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles

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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. TITANS) l [OCTOBER 26th]


Another game against a bad team ...... and another chance for this 2025 Colts to show that it is different than all of other post-Andrew Luck teams (save for the solid, consistent 2020 Philip Rivers Colts team.)

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