If every favorite wins this week…

[Kray007]

Th Colts will hold the 6 seed in the playoff hunt, behind the four division winners and Cleveland. Five teams…Houston, Denver, Cincinnati, the Steelers, and Indy will be bunched up with 6-5 records, but the Colts would be 5-3 in the conference.

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o


With 7 games left to play, I'm not especially concerned with where we stand in terms of playoff seeding ...... all of that won't really loom significant until the final 2 or 3 weeks of the season. Right now, way too much can happen for me to be thinking in terms of passing one team and/or falling behind another team.

The more significant supposition would be, how will the Colts fare in the 7 very winnable games which they had left on their schedule ??? With Joe Burrow going down for the season with an injury, the only game left on the Colts' schedule that appears to be truly daunting is the Steelers game ...... and even there, the Steelers are not currently looking like a juggernaut team such as the Chiefs and the Eagles ...... the Steelers are better than the Colts, but not by leaps and bounds.


So if the Colts play up to their capabilities, they could very likely finish this 2023 season with a record of 11-6, or even 12-5 ...... but as we all know, the Indianapolis Colts of recent years have been very unpredictable, both in games in which they had been expected to win AND in games in which they had been expected to lose. Last year the Colts beat the Chiefs, and barely lost to the Eagles by one point ...... but their overall record was 4-12-1. In 2019, Jacoby Brissett and company beat the eventual Super Bowl champion Chiefs, but finished that season with an overall record of 7-9. In 2021, the Colts had a record 9-6 record heading into the final 2 games of the season. They had 1 beatable team and 1 horrible team (the Raiders and the Jaguars, respectively) standing in their way of a playoff berth and a division title. So what did our beloved Colts do ??? They lost a close game to the Raiders, and they got beaten thoroughly and decisively by the 2-14 Jaguars.

o

[omahacolt]

this team is going nowhere with minshew. maybe 3 more wins is my guess

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Originally Posted by omahacolt

This team is going nowhere with Minshew at quarterback ...... maybe 3 more wins is my guess.

o


Minshew has unquestionably been the weak link in the offense for most of this season, but I wouldn't necessarily go out on a limb and claim that the Colts will go 8-9 because of that ...... they may go 8-9, they may go 7-10, or they may go 11-6.

Of their 7 remaining games, 6 of them are very winnable ...... only the Steelers would be a prohibitive favorite to beat the Colts. With Joe Burrow being lost for the season, the Bengals game has become very winnable.


That said, I would not be surprised to see the Colts to find a way to shit the bed and go something like 6-11, or 7-10 ...... with the exception of the 2020 season when they had Philip Rivers at quarterback, the Colts have found a way to lose a lot of winnable games since the retirement of Andrew Luck.

o

[BCN#1]

Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles

o


Minshew has unquestionably been the weak link in the offense for most of this season, but I wouldn't necessarily go out on a limb and claim that the Colts will go 8-9 because of that ...... they may go 8-9, they may go 7-10, or they may go 11-6.

Of their 7 remaining games, 6 of them are very winnable ...... only the Steelers would be a prohibitive favorite to beat the Colts. With Joe Burrow being lost for the season, the Bengals game has become very winnable.


That said, I would not be surprised to see the Colts to find a way to shit the bed and go something like 6-11, or 7-10 ...... with the exception of the 2020 season when they had Philip Rivers at quarterback, the Colts have found a way to lose a lot of winnable games since the retirement of Andrew Luck.

o

Either way, we at least 1 win more last year´s win record so a plus regardless.. one step and one game at a time of course.

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Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles

o


Minshew has unquestionably been the weak link in the offense for most of this season, but I wouldn't necessarily go out on a limb and claim that the Colts will go 8-9 because of that ...... they may go 8-9, they may go 7-10, or they may go 11-6.

Of their 7 remaining games, 6 of them are very winnable ...... only the Steelers would be a prohibitive favorite to beat the Colts. With Joe Burrow being lost for the season, the Bengals game has become very winnable.


That said, I would not be surprised to see the Colts to find a way to shit the bed and go something like 6-11, or 7-10 ...... with the exception of the 2020 season when they had Philip Rivers at quarterback, the Colts have found a way to lose a lot of winnable games since the retirement of Andrew Luck.

o

o


That said, I do (in a sense) agree with Omaha's sentiment that the Colts probably aren't going anywhere with Minshew at quarterback ....... in the playoffs.

Because of the weak schedule that the Colts have ahead of them, they could very well win 10, 11, or maybe even 12 games in the regular season ...... but in the playoffs, WHERE EVERY AFC TEAM THAT QUALIFIES WILL BE GOOD, these Colts aren't going anywhere with Minshew at quarterback.

o