New York Jets at the Indianapolis Colts Recap

Let me start by saying man, losing to the Jets sucked big time, like big time. That being said although I wouldn't have admitted it during the Playoffs but this years Colts team was far too injured to really make a playoff push. I did think we'd beat the Jets and Thought we could give the Steelers a go of it but the idea of winning two more games after that seemed rather unlikely.



The Colts had a Good game plan offensively and defensively against a team that has been building to beat the Colts as if they were in their division and Manning had a good night on top of that. Offensively it's clear there just weren't enough play makers to create match up problems to create any long drives which could put more points on the board but also wear down the defense and facilitate those late game heroics fact of the matter is you cant win games kicking threes, I've always said it the Colts kicked threes and they lost. Defense was a whole different thing, I felt good about the team defensively they were coming in hot and Mark Sanchez really, really sucks. The first half They looked great, stuffing the run, didn't let and long sustained drives happen to wear down the defensive line but the second half the wheels came off and the Colts let the Jets hang seventeen on them. If you're asking what happened in the second half, the Colts starting free safety Aaron Fransico left the game with a quad injury and was replaced with Ken Hamlin and that was all the Jets running game needed to get going. all in all I'm not really trying to make any excuses, injury is part of football but on this wide a scale it was tough to not wonder what would have been and it does make me feel great going in to next year. the last thing I want to impart is just how injured we truly were. below this I'm going to attach a chart stacking our offense vs our defense but I'm going to use the number the play is on the depth chart (meaning whether they are first , second string ect.) I'm going to use a "X" if the player was signed during the season to fill a spot due to injury if you see a "x" with a number after it means they were brought in to replace someone who was brought in to replace someone the number will denote how many time it happened. If there's a number before that's how many players were injured on the roster before the Colts had to bring in the new player. keep in mind Dallas Clark and Austin Collie are among those missing