Injury Woes: Week 11

Injury Woes: Week 11
Dr. Jamez

The theme of the Colts 2011 season has been “no, no not him too” injuries clearly casting a dark shadow over what was believed to be the team to beat in the AFC this season. Going in to this week’s grudge match with The Patriots who are tied with the conference leading Jets at 7-2 the injury report is as full as ever. The Colts gave their early week list of players that would certainly miss the following week’s game and Colts fans were given a ray of hope in that the only player ruled out for the week was Bob Sanders. However, that ray of hope was diminished greatly when Wednesday the Colts posted the first injury report of the week with every player that missed The Bengals game (Bracket, Session, Tyron, Addai, Hart) missing practice with the exception of Blair White and Austen Collie who were limited with a new addition, Reggie Wayne.

Something more concerning about the report is comments made by Colts President Bill Polian earlier in the week. The verbiage is

An excerpt from Bill Polian’s weekly column

Q: How good are the Patriots?
A: Very good, and most importantly, this game will not decide anything. There is a long way to go in this season. The winner of this game is not guaranteed to go to the Super Bowl, and the loser is not guaranteed to miss the playoffs. It's one game and it's interesting and exciting, but it's only one game with seven to go.


The verbiage is what is important here, if you follow the Colts you’ll remember Polian used similar comments when being asked about the Jets game in which Indianapolis was 14-0 with two games left to complete an undefeated season in 2010. Because the Colts have a full game lead in the division with three divisional games to play two being at home it seems that the staff is likely to keep out the key players for the extra rest because they will most likely win the division so they are guaranteed one home game and aren’t the one seed so will most likely have at least one road game so the feeling is losing to the Patriots who are a wild card team doesn’t actually mean anything in the grand scheme of things. If you’re a rabid Colts fan like Dr. Jamez it’s just a major bummer. I’m going to remain cautiously optimistic though and hope the skill players do come back and save the day. GO COLTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!