Indianapolis is My Home

04
Nov

Colts Play Hard But Fall to Brady and the Patriots

Author: Jason Bean, Category: Indianapolis Colts, Indy Pro Athletes, RCA Dome, Sports

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A disappointing loss tonight for the Colts against the Patriots. They played them well the entire game and gave them a lot of firsts this season:

• First game they didn’t score first
• First game they didn’t score on opening drive
• First game they were ever behind this season

Regretfully they just couldn’t give them their first loss. Things looked good for three quarters for back-to-back touchdowns put the Patriots up by four with 3 minutes left in the game.

I wouldn’t want any other quarterback in the league in charge of my offense than Peyton Manning in that situation. Sadly, this time it just wasn’t enough.

I think there should be a lot said for the Colts. The defense really stepped up and aside from the final two touchdowns by Brady, shut down the most powerful offense in the league. Joseph Addai was a 1st down machine in the game, bringing out comments from the commentators about his similarities to Barry Sanders (interestingly enough the Detroit Lions scored 44 points today. I don’t think they scored that much all of last season).

What’s amazing is this game was only really important when it comes down to the playoffs and a tie between us and the Patriots. The way the two teams are playing it’s pretty apparent they will be seeing each other again in that situation. With this win it looks like we’ll be playing them in New England.