State of the AFC week 9

State of the AFC week 9
Dr. Jamez

This week the AFC saw the drama the NFL has come to call common place this season in full effect. We saw what I considered the best team in the NFL the Jets exposed on offense coming off a bye but an injury depleted Packers team. The Steelers who many others considered the best team in the NFL convincingly beat by a Saints team is coming off being blown out by the Browns. The one bit of stability we found is that Indianapolis is back in a familiar spot at sole ownership of first place in the AFC south coming off a domination of the Houston Texans on Monday night, But not with out a cost.

I’ll be upfront with you this is supposed to be a state of the whole AFC however like other times I’ve written it I’ve gotten a wave of bad news on the injury front for the Colts so I’ll spend most of my time lamenting that. News came in today that Clint Session the starting OLB suffered not only a dislocated elbow but wait for it…. That’s right a broken forearm first I have to give a lot of respect to the man for playing through that in a game that we desperately needed to win. The heart and selflessness he showed is what this team is defined by. Now that that’s said I really want to throw up, we had finally gotten Angerer, Session, and Bracket on the field at the same time which I felt would improve our run defense tremendously and for the most part did but with this news we’re back to where we were before at best. No official reports yet confirming or denying this thus no time table on how much time he will miss. That wasn’t the only thing on the Thursday injury avalanche, no not at all. Mike Hart who ran brilliantly on Monday hurt his ankle in someway that hasn’t been disclosed yet and was scheduled to have an MRI on it no official news yet but there’s nothing good about having an MRI and he hasn’t practiced for two days in a row. Not to be out done by someone in their first start, Anthony Gonzalez injured his knee on a dirty hit out of bounce by Houston’s crappy free safety and reports are that he’ll probably be gone for the rest of the year. But let’s even the bad news out on both sides of the ball Jerraud Powers did not participate for the second day in a row (he didn’t practice all last week either) with a foot injury. The one ray of hope in all off this is that Austen Collie was limited on Wednesday and fully participated on Thursday which is a godsend if he can play and Blair White can continue to return punts and play the fourth wide out. Other depressing news is Brodie Eldridge and Robert Mathis didn’t participate this week either but I think Mathis will play just with a knee brace. That’s that….. Thank god we still have Manning who will be starting his 200th consecutive game this Sunday versus the Philadelphia Eagles.

Keeping with the central theme of all things Indy this week Randy Moss was traded to back to the AFC and in to The Colts division to the second place Tennessee Titans. Time will tell how this effects the Colts, Titans and AFC as of now I don’t have a precise opinion on it yet.