Anyone who has worked with a competent manager for 15 minutes has heard the phrase “Good is the enemy of great.” Anyone who has watched the Indianapolis Colts play football this season mutters it to himself in his sleep. The Colts are good, and they have been mostly good for a long time. Only three times […]
Coaches will always tell you that victory favors the team making the fewer mistakes. In other words, screw ups are more likely to determine the winner of a game that highlight reel plays. Such was the case yesterday in Houston. The Colts appeared to be the better team throughout their win against the Texans, but […]
In 24 hours, Colts fans have gone from ready to listen to CBS Sports Jason La Canfora’s call for the Colts to bench quarterback Philip Rivers to campaigning for him as a possible NFL MVP. That’s a severe flip – the kind of flip that serves as evidence of mental illness. It’s like someone wearing a […]
Thursday night is it for the Colts. The importance of games in mid-November is sometimes overestimated, but not this one. When the Colts match up against the Titans in Nashville Thursday night, the season will be on the line – and so will the rebuilding effort of GM Chris Ballard. It’s been enjoyable to watch the […]
Philip Rivers lost the game in Cleveland. He made an indefensible throw that resulted in a pick six, and threw another pass in the direction of no one in particular while he was in the end zone. That resulted in a safety. When a quarterback scores nine points for the other guys in a nine-point […]
Uh-oh. We know all the banal little sayings about the NFL. “Any given Sunday,” “It’s only one game,” and “It’s not how you start but how you finish that counts,” are repeated over and over throughout the season. Of course, they are as accurate as they are trite, especially after a game like the Colts 27-20 […]
Like all sports loving Hoosiers, I spend my time in the car between noon and three listening to Dan Dakich on 1070 the Fan, and he has long been a staunch defender of Ryan Grigson’s record as the general manager of the Indianapolis Colts. Dan has carved out an island of his very own where […]
Colts quarterback Philip Rivers needs to find a way to stop the clock, but God doesn’t allow us three timeouts and a two-minute warning. He’ll turn 39 in December, and last year played like it. Tom Brady and Drew Brees are outliers in their ability to perform well past the age of decline, and Rivers […]
May is not the time for NFL realists to shine. Now is when dreams of a Lombardi Trophy dance in the imaginations of all 32 fanbases, even if 31 of them will be wrong. Colts fans are no different. It’s easy to list reasons why the Colts will continue to live inside the bulging middle […]