Post Game Thread: Colts defeat Patriots, 35-34

And get shit like that from Belichick?

I want my fucking money back.

at least we know how potent the office can be right now and the defense can stop good offenses for most of the game. And if it wasn’t for that one dumb ass decision we might have pulled away with a win.

I view that decision as quite arrogant by Belicheck. Like he was trying to make a statement or something. That lessens my respect for BB as a division rival.

but I just want to say good freakin game guys! I never give up on Peyton after the Tampa game years ago, but I NEVER expected that. Good game and thanks for all the fun cross blogging this week!
Good luck the rest of the year and we will see you again in January

even if he decided to punt the ball, the game would still be put in Peyton’s hands, which these days is the football equivalent to Russian Roulette. So, IMO, it was a no-win situation.

At least we have exposed some of the Colts’ big weaknesses, which we can build on should we meet them again in the playoffs.

That’s all I have to say on it.

They were the better team than the Colts for most of the game… except for those last few minutes

You guys have a great team and that was a classic game.

Let’s do it again in a couple months.

This loss sucked, but let’s keep the vulgarity to a minimum. And trolls coming to gloat will be have comments removed and face banning.

which one would you take?

I don’t have the stats to back it up and they’re not always relevant anyway, but I like the Pats chances of converting a 4th and 3 more than I like the pats chances of stopping Peyton Manning really late in the game with a gassed defense.

I think overall we played a great game, but we showed a lack of depth at DL (Joseph addai should not be able to pound the ball like that in the 4th) and we need to keep players fresh when playing quick teams like the Colts down the stretch (Saints in a couple weeks).

I don’t like to think of the decision as arrogant. If anything, Belichick was probably thinking hey, whether 30 or 70 yards, if we don’t get this first down, we don’t get it. I don’t think that is “not trusting the defense”, I think as it was pointed out earlier, a no-win situation so going for it might be fun in Madden ‘10, and it might not have been the best decision percentage-wise, but I don’t think it was a dumb decision. My big problem with it was wasting both timeouts (they didn’t have to take the first one after the kickoff).

I dunno where this leaves us; what I’m most disappointed with is we would be one game behind in the lead for the conference if we had won and now we are 3 games back, plus we are behind the Bengals and tied with a still tough Broncos and growing Chargers threat come playoff time.

The Jets is a must win. What I’m grateful for is we still have a 2 game lead. In the end, and the coaching staff has stressed it, it’s about the division.

Don’t get too down, you guys have a great team. Looking forward to the next one.

All right guys. It was a good game, sucks that we lost and I am off to bed…

Few things…

1) We eliminated Dallas Clark. We did a good job, it’s just that our secondary is too young to handle Reggie Wayne. I was confused, though. Why did Pees have Leigh Bodden on Garcon instead of on Reggie Wayne? We put our younger guys on him and he caught EVERYTHING that was thrown to him. Poor job with that. We did a good job of limiting, but the Colts receivers were too good and Peyton was too accurate. They managed to get all the incredible and improbable catches and to win the game.

2) We missed Ty Warren/TBC/etc etc. We had limited pressure after a strong start. This has gone on too far. We NEED to address this in next years draft. I will question BB’s coaching if he doesn’t push for a stud pass rusher in the draft.

3) Brady IS back. He had a huge game. He is back and I have full trust in his abilities. The rust is now gone.

4) We CAN and WILL beat the Saints. If we can’t end one team’s undefeated season, we’ll do it to another team’s.

5) We need SaMo and Fragile Freddy back. Faulk was a tank today, but we need a consistent back who can gain yardage. As great as our RB by committee is, I’d much prefer a tandem of 2 studs than 4 mediocre players. I mean, when we were in the 5 yard line of the end zone, I never felt confident that we’d have a TD. If we had Stephen Jackson? MJD? AD? CJ? This game wouldn’t be close. We need to get a stud in the draft as well. Not a LoMo, but a player who was a feature back in college.

6) Faulk had that first down. I will swear by that. We just didn’t have a TO or that would’ve been over turned. BB lost us the game, plain and simple. We can place the blame on LoMo’s fumble, or Brady throwing the pick, and those were important. But we had a chance to win the game if we had punted the ball and stopped them. Sure, it’s Manning, but apart from their final drive, we had been able to limit him. It was aggressive and had it been called correctly, we would have won. However, it wasn’t and that’s football. I’ll lay this on Hoodie’s shoulders.

7) We’ll see the Colts again in the Playoffs. I guarantee it.

8) Vollmer is INCREDIBLE. Kazcur, not so much. I’ll stick to what I’ve been saying. Vollmer in at LT, Light in at RT. I might not even slide Kazcur to RG, I might leave Neal there. Have Kazcur come in and play the LeVoir role and play the 6th blocker. He was eaten ALIVE by Mathis in the 4th quarter. Vollmer handled Freeney in single most of the time (Mankins saved him a couple times). Why didn’t we start putting extra help by Mathis?

9) 60 minutes. Games last 60 minutes. This one hurts because we had it in their house, but we’ll have another chance in the playoffs.

10) I needed 10 points. (So did the Pats? rim shot) We have a great team and they’re young. They’ll keep getting better. We just need a couple more pieces until we’re back on top. This year is still ours. We can win and we KNOW we can win. We just need to execute. We’re going to win out. Calling it.

several teams had them on the ropes and let them wiggle off the hook. dolphins had them beat, texans, jags and now the pats. eventually that kind of luck usually runs out at the wrong time. they have alot of early exits from the playoffs to show for it.

in your coach defense i have to say this in the 4th quater the colts offense was hot , 125+ yards 21 points , your D was tired and the no huddle was taking its tall on your big D, it is the righht thing to play the % and make our offense earn the win from 70 yards , but 2 yards for an offense like yours that was raking 10+ yards per play, well i still think our offense with no huddle on your tired D would score anyway but your coach tried to win it. great game and thank you for a great week of blogging

What happened to Ben Watson?
One catch in the second quarter, and then he disappeared.

Game on the line, two minutes, and one timeout?

Against Peyton Manning, the difference between starting at your 30 and starting at his 20 is the difference between playing Russian Roulette with 5 bullets and 4 bullets.

Does anyone else think the Pats were sunk as soon as Brady threw incomplete right before they kicked the field goal with 4:12 left? Sure, if they make a first down there games most likely over. But I recall thinking at the time man they need to keep the clock moving.

Say they ran it instead of the incomplete pass attempt. That would have meant another 40 something secs off the clock at least. Or maybe the Colts burn a timeout.

Who knows what would have happened? So maybe the Colts don’t score before the 2 min warning. Do you think Belichick still goes for it if the Colts have under 2 mins left and no timeouts or does he kick it deep and take his chances?

Man that game sucked. Bad enough they lost, but I have to have flashbacks to the AFC title game too?

Great game real nail biting 4 quarter.I for one hope there’s a rematch in the playoffs, both teams bring out the best competition in the NFL.