Locked On Colts - Daily Podcast On The Indianapolis Colts - Indianapolis Colts' offense reaches new heights in 45-30 win over Jets

Episode Date: November 5, 2021

The Indianapolis Colts are now 4-5 on the season after a fantastic primetime victory against the New York Jets. Carson Wentz, Jonathan Taylor, Michael Pittman Jr. and Nyheim Hines all shined in this one. The offense is now averaging 31.5 points per game over the last six weeks with the second half of the regular season set to begin.Is the offensive production sustainable? Also, what about the dreadful second half from the defense tonight?Closing out the show, we look ahead to an important next month of the season for Indy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You are Locked On Colts, your daily Indianapolis Colts podcast. Part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. Hello everyone, welcome into your post-game edition of Locked On Colts. I am your host Evan Sattery, joined by Stephen Reed of Stan Peoples. He's back on the show for the first time in a little bit. Stephen, how are you doing tonight? After an impressive Colts win, I would say for the most part, and then kind of defense gave up a little bit at the end.

It was 42-10 in this game. Jonathan Taylor looks like a true superstar, and I don't think there's any running back, honestly, I would take over him at this point. Michael Pittman Jr. looks like a legit superstar, and I don't think there's any running back. Honestly, I would take over him at this point. Michael Pittman Jr. looks like a legit star receiver in his own right. Carson Wentz with a huge bounce back game against this New York Jets team. We'll focus on the positives first, and we'll dive into the negatives later on and look ahead a little bit to what's upcoming for the Colts.

But how are you doing tonight? Hey, Evan. I'm doing well tonight. I'm glad to be back on. Like you said, it's been a while, so I'm glad to be back around and be back on the podcast. Yeah, absolutely. I think the first three quarters of this game were absolutely so entertaining to watch, just bludgeoning the Jets. Jonathan Taylor, we'll start off with him because the numbers,

when you look at tonight and you look at the last six weeks and really over the last 16 games in Jonathan Taylor's career, it's absolutely absurd what this guy is doing and how he's changing the Colts' offense, how he's moving himself up the NFL ranks of running backs right now. In tonight's game, Stephen, he had 20 touches for 200 total scrimmage yards, 19 carries for 172 yards, 9 yards per carry and 2 touchdowns. Over the last six weeks, Now, this is really absurd.

The last six weeks, 873 scrimmage yards, almost 900 yards, nine touchdowns. And over the last 16 games, a full season for Jonathan Taylor, since he really hit the turning point in that Packers game last season. Since that game, 2,035 scrimmage yards and 18 touchdowns in the last 16 games for Jonathan Taylor. This guy is a bona fide superstar, and he looks the part of the next Edger and James for this Colts team. And he looks the part of potentially taking that baton away from Derrick Henry soon enough, Steven, as the best running back in the NFL. Because this guy is just a man on a mission.

And when he gets going like he did tonight, he is unstoppable. He is so fun to watch and i i am so glad the colts somehow some way got this guy in the second round of last year's draft because he is just just absolutely incredible yeah jonathan taylor is i mean what's wild is that he ran for so many yards of wisconsin and then put up what a spark score of like 99 or 9.99 like it was crazy high his Sparks score um it's like 99 percent like up there with like like his his measurables are better than Saquon Barkley at a big at a bigger weight so Jonathan Taylor is just a fantastic running back it just it just

blows my mind how he slid in the draft how he wasn't in that that Saquon Barkley Christian McCaffrey tier of running back when he was drafted so Chris Ballard made the right move in training up in front of Jacksonville to go ahead and grab Jonathan Taylor in in that draft a couple years ago obviously it's paying huge dividends now he averaged 9.1 yards per carry. Of course, he's buoyed by that 78 yard run, but still he's, even if you take that out, he's still looking at 18 carries for like just under a hundred yards. That's pretty darn good that you're running up there like four and a half, between four and a half and five yards of carry. So that's, that's solid. It's really nice to see Frank Reich utilize Naeem Hines and Jonathan Taylor more throughout the start of the game. It was during those first 15 scripted plays

that you really saw him set the tone. And I thought, given how much we've ragged on Frank Reich the past couple weeks on Twitter and in social media. I think it's worth pointing out that he called a very good game tonight against the Jets. He was very balanced in his attack. It was 30 runs, 30 passes. It was very, very balanced in terms of the attack. He didn't just lean so heavily on Carson Wentz to try to win him the game. He went with, you know, what was their strength last year at the end of the year?

And their strength when they win games is their running game. So Frank Reich went back to that. And I think if he had done that last game, the Colts likely win against Tennessee. The good thing is that he realized that. He rectified that. He ran the ball well against the New York Jets. And the New York Jets aren't an easy team to run against. Their front four is probably their best positional group on defense and the Colts offensive line with when

they had Reed in there just absolutely demolished them they started swapping in Glowinski there and you saw some some regression and then you saw Glowinski pick it up a little bit so I wish that they would just pick a guy to go in at right guard and stick with him, preferably Chris Reed, because I think he's the better player. But it was really good to see them focus on the run of the running game and let Jonathan Taylor really just eat today because he was hungry and he showed it. Yeah, Jonathan Taylor now is on pace to finish the season with 2,135 scrimmage yards, which would, I think, be very close to Edrin James' franchise record. I think it's around 2,200 was Edrin James' record in 04. So he's closing in on that if he keeps up this current pace.

But really quickly, just one last point on Taylor Ford. I want to go over to Carson Wentz and Michael Pittman, this entire offense. Do you think Frank Reich, after realizing on Sunday, kind of abandoning Jonathan Taylor for no reason when he had it going, we saw it against the Ravens when Frank Reich went conservative. He fixed it. He's been super aggressive ever since that game in Baltimore. Do you think now Frank Reich's realized,

I need to get this guy 18 to 20 touches per game, no ifs, ands, or buts about it? Because this guy, when he gets going, he's almost like a prize fighter where if you give him more and more touches throughout the game, he's like Derrick Henry where he's going to be harder and harder to tackle. We saw that 78-yard explosive run at the end of that game before he got benched as they were arresting him for the last quarter or so of that game.

But, man, Jonathan Taylor, when you get him going in the second half of games, he can be a true game changer. I think Frank Wright probably realized tonight, I should never take the ball out of this guy's hands, especially when the game's on the line, why I want to close out a game. Because give him 18, 20 touches, he's going to put up 150 yards at this point yeah I mean he is it's and it's not even a matter of like Derrick Henry is a guy that like you said he's like he's like a fighter he wears you down and then he lands that that money money maker that haymaker shot right there at the

end and really ends the fight Jonathan Taylor is one of those guys that you just give him one opening at one point and he's going to knock you out. So if we're going with boxing analogies, that's kind of the way I would go with it because Jonathan Taylor, yeah, okay. He wears you down because any good running back does that. But Jonathan Taylor has got that lightning in a bottle where if he gets open, he's gone. Like if he gets open, he's gone. Like if he gets a cut lane, gone.

I think NextGenStats has Jonathan Taylor as the two fastest runs on the season, something along those lines, for running back. And it makes sense. Once you saw him on that 78-yard run, once he got that hole and started running down the sideline, he went to it and he was pulling away from DBs. That's insane for a running back, given that running backs typically weigh generally about 30 pounds to 40 pounds more than most defensive backs, at least the bigger running backs like a Jonathan Taylor. And so the fact that he was pulling away from those defensive backs is really, really impressive. And his speed is just that where you just give him a crease and he's got great

vision. He's got that agility where he'll just do that little quick jump cut and then he bounces outside and he's gone. It's really, really fun to watch as a fan, and it's really cool to see someone like that work with an offensive line that can make those holes for him. Yeah, Taylor, we're going to be talking more about him throughout this week, throughout the next couple weeks, and throughout the next couple months,

I imagine, because Jonathan Taylor just keeps getting better and better. He is leapfrogging running backs left and right to be potentially, I think, one of the best running backs in the NFL. And I think he's going to take that Russian crown this year, Derek Henry being signed for probably the rest of the regular season. Let's go over now, Stephen, to Carson Wentz and to this passing attack. Carson Wentz was on fire tonight, and a great response from Carson Wentz tonight after quite arguably his worst game

as the Annapolis Colts on Sunday just very consistent two boneheaded mistakes late in that game as well cost the Colts that game where they kind of were gift wrapped before those mistakes by Carson Wentz but Wentz was in the first half 15 of 18 for I think 153 yards and three touchdowns and then you also go over his entire stats 22 22 of 30, 272, three touchdowns, was sacked late in this game as the Colts are trying to just get aggressive a little bit when they didn't need to, but only sacked one time, 134.3 QB rating. The way that he spread the ball around too, Pittman five catches, Paschal four, Naheem Hines four, Taylor two, Doolin two,

and you had five more guys get a reception. Danny Pinter at Ball Stadium got a touchdown in this game off a goal line pass, which is awesome to watch as a Ball State alumnus who eventually transferred to Arizona to finish out school here. But it was awesome to see the way Carson Wentz spread the wealth around and to really have a big, emphatic bounce back the way he did tonight. That's exactly what Carson Wentz needed to really build his confidence back up for a very important stretch run here against the Jaguars next week.

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why he was even in the game in the fourth quarter at that point when you were up 42-10 or 42-16. It seems like having him in there in the fourth quarter to have him potentially take some unnecessary hits seemed like a bad coaching decision there. But overall, Carson Wentz, though, played a great game. You saw him make some great throws. That throw to Pittman for the touchdown was solid.

It was in there right where it needed to be, right where only Pittman could get it. You saw him make a couple of those throws, really, where the Colts player was the only one that could get it, even though Naheem Hines' ball went out of bounds because there was a little bit of air underneath it although i kind of think name hines still got both feet in but that's neither here nor there the fact is hines was the only guy that could make a play on it and really that's what you want out of that quarterback if he's

going to push the ball down the field you want it to either be a catch or an incompletion that's it you don't want it to be in those situations where a safety could come in and snipe in and take the ball uh so Carson Wentz I thought played a really good game overall I think that he hopefully is on the upward trajectory and you start to see him start to take those short middle passes because you saw that during this game where he threw a couple to Pittman a couple to Doolin a couple to Paschal that were just in the middle of the field that weren't like really pushing it downfield in terms of like the deep ball and really forcing it but he just took what the defense gave him and one of the one of the plays I really loved was that Danny Pinter touchdown. I know that

we'll probably talk about that here in a bit, but I thought Carson Wentz did just a phenomenal job of selling that. And this is something that we've talked about last year or two years ago with Jacoby Brissett and his inability to move defenders with his eyes. Carson Wentz on that Danny Pinter touchdown just looked to the right side of the field only, while Danny Pinter just started to break out, started in that block, faked the block pretty well, rolled out, nobody was on him, and Carson Wentz then at the last second came back to him and threw it for the touchdown. That ability to manipulate a defense and get them to start to take a step, take a false step where you

want them to is such an underrated ability. And I think Carson Wentz felt a lot more comfortable today and partially probably had to do with the offensive line and how well that they played today. And so hopefully that can continue going forward because quite honestly, in the AFC, there's not a team that really scares me, be totally honest and if the Colts can make the playoffs and the Colts can come out of next week and and be five and five be at 500 with you know seven games to play knowing that you realistically you're probably looking at 10-7 is going to make a wild card in the AFC. If that can happen, I like the Colts' chances because you figure they're going to win one to two out of Buffalo and Tampa Bay, but they've got some really good chances down the stretch,

and I'm hopeful for them to potentially make the playoffs and cost them a cold turn of the team that anybody would want to play in the playoffs, period. Yeah, one last point here on Wentz before we dive into the offense as a whole, but just did the numbers while you're talking there, Stephen. 17 touchdowns, three picks so far this year for Wentz, just that one bag against Tennessee and the interception column with two.

But if you put that over a 17-game regular season when he's done the first half, 4,152 yards, 33 touchdowns, six interceptions, 100.1 QB rating, that's worth a first and a third-round pick each time you put up those numbers, right? Yeah, I mean, if he can continue that out, yeah, absolutely. And that's the thing is if you can see that if you get the Carson Wentz from, like, I think it was like week four to seven um or four to six and then now week nine then you've got a great quarterback the trouble is if you get Carson Wentz from weeks one to three or week seven or eight then you're in a bit of a crunch you know his his great games this is

something I talked about is Carson Wentz's great games that he has, he's a top five quarterback in the NFL. And I don't think that's out of bounds to say. The trouble is his bad games, he's like a 25 to 30 quarterback in the NFL. And that's not great. So if he can level this out and put himself in that top 12 range, then I think it's absolutely worth a third and a first round pick. But if he ends up falling off a cliff, then it's not worth it. And the Colts might be kicking themselves for not benching him or not sitting him in the fourth quarter in a couple

meaningless games that the game is out of reach and they're up against it in terms of snap counts. And so this is another topic for another day, but overall I love the way Carson Wentz played today. I think that if he can continue this upward trajectory going forward, I think the Colts really got a steal and they potentially, you know, could be in the playoff mix. Yeah.

They were up 42, 10 tonight before Jets really just made a late run just due to prevent-solve defense. The secondary is a little garbage. We'll talk about that later on in the show, Stephen. But Carson Wentz, the snap counts go. They didn't bench him when he was up 42-10. They didn't bench him on the last possession. They didn't bench him when he kneeled it out.

So I think we all know the intentions from Frank Reich is that he's going to play Carson Wentz every single snap, every single chance he can get. And I thought we would see Sam Ellinger tonight late in this game. We did not. So that kind of shows you, I think, the Colts have nothing in their minds about preserving snap counts or doing that right now. So that's, like you said, discussion for another day. We'll hell on that later on if it gets to that point.

But Michael Piven Jr., again tonight, just awesome to see him. Like, he's a guy to me. We've talked about, like, the great elite receivers for the Colts over the years, Marvin Harrison, Reggie Wayne, T.Y. Hilton. I'm not saying Pittman's on that level yet, not even close. But the way – the style in which he runs, Stephen, the style in which he catches the ball and runs like a running back, it's very unique.

Some of the Colts really have never had, I can remember in their history in Indianapolis, five catches, 64 yards and a touchdown tonight on six targets. Pittman has five touchdowns over the last five weeks. I mean, he's been awesome. He's ascending right now before our eyes, Stephen, alongside John Taylor to form a legit lethal wide receiver one, running back one duo in nd right now yeah pitman has really started to show out um over the past couple weeks and it's something

that you kind of saw going into the end of last year against buffalo where he got a bunch of targets and buffalo put truce white on him to to shadow him throughout the game. You see Pittman, he's getting the better coverage guys on him and he's still producing. And so he's using that big body. He's making catches in traffic. He's able to pull away from guys when he wants to, or if he gets a step. So I really love Pittman. It's something that I talked about coming out in the draft. I mean, shoot, the first draft podcast I think we ever did, or if you had me on during the draft, I said Michael Pittman was the perfect goal

and he would make the perfect fit for this team in this locker room. So far that's held true to a T. And so I'm really happy with Michael Pittman Jr.'s progression and how he's come on. I think he's just going to continue to get better and better, and if they can get like a Deshaun Jackson that's up through waivers, somebody that can stretch the field vertically, Michael Pittman Jr. could explode,

even more so than what he already has thus far. If you can get somebody that could really realistically take the top off the defense and be a threat, Michael Pittman Jr. will be even better. Yeah, Pittman and Wentz have that special connection brewing right now, and it's going to be fun to watch over the second half of the season, too. But let's dive into the offense as a whole. We hit on the three stars of this offense, Taylor, Wentz, Pittman. But overall, Steven, over the last five or six weeks, this offense has really found a groove.

It started in Baltimore, really in Miami, and it's continued on ever since then. 27 points against the Dolphins, 25 against the Ravens, 31 in the next four weeks, 31, 30, 31, and tonight 45, 31.5 points per game for the Colts over the last six weeks. This is a team that's clicking on all cylinders right now, even without T.Y. Hilton, without Paris Campbell. You're just now realizing your potential with Pittman and Taylor. Wentz is doing very well outside that Tennessee game over the stretch.

I mean, this is a great sign for the second half of the season, right, Stephen? This offense is proving consistently week in and week out, even with some mistakes here and there. They're capable of putting up 30-plus points every single week. And I saw a stat, I believe, on the broadcast where four straight games over 30 points the first time since I think the early Manning days. So that's just something that's a crazy stat to look over there. But this offense, 31.5 points per game over the six-week stretch,

heading into the second half of the season, this offense looks like a legit top-ten unit right now. Yeah, I mean, it is. You see the points that they put up for the past couple weeks. And you see the weapons they have in Jonathan Taylor. The offensive line finally getting healthy is huge. And you're seeing them put up points. People like to blame Frank Wright a lot for his play calls and stuff.

And I've been on that boat too, where after those scripted plays, it seems like he falls off in terms of his play calling. He just doesn't have a good feel. Today, like I said, he had a great feel for it. And it seems like even though a couple weeks he struggled, the offense still puts up points. And so whether that's an effect of the defense putting them in good positions and getting turnovers like it was against Tennessee,

or whether the offense is really pushing the ball down the field and really actually able to make plays and put points on the board, which is what they've been doing, either way, the offense is scoring. And that's really what you want to see from this Colts team. So you can't complain too much about it in terms of the play calling and the offense looking stagnant when they're actually putting up 30-plus points a game for four straight games. Yeah, absolutely.

This offense has been fun to watch so far. And let's dive over just at least a little bit of hell in this before we dive into the last part of our show, which covers the next couple weeks for this Colts team which it's very important this stretch we want to stay in the wild card race have any glimmer of hope to have the titans fall cloud derrick kering stay in this afc south race before we get into that the defense steven what was your assessment of what exactly happened in that second half mike white did not even play after the first drive or the second drive of this game due to a forearm or a wrist injury.

Johnson, their quarterback, he just sliced through the Colts' defense. The Jets had 495 yards of offense in this game. A lot of it came in the second half. A lot of it came when they were up by 30-plus points. But I think to allow the Jets back into that game the way they did just left a really sour taste in my mouth. I mean, it was still a double-digit win, but that could have been a seven- or eight-point win for the Colts if they would have scored when they got right down near the five-yard line before Bobby Okereke picked

off that tip pass. No adjustments from Mattie Ruflus in the second half of that game. The pass rush is pretty much non-existent, except Quidipe having a couple good rushes here and there and Dayo Odengbo. But man, this secondary is really concerning to me, Stephen. I think it's kind of showing now the last two weeks how much they miss Julian Blackman because it feels like he was the leader of that group back there in the back end because whatever it is, Xavier Rhodes, he looks toast now.

I think he's shown that consistently over the last six weeks of the season. Isaiah Rogers is flashing here and there, good and bad. Rocky is saying the same thing. Kenny Moore is consistent as a good run defender, but passing has been inconsistent so far this year. Andrew Sandejo and George Odom have been a nightmare duo as far as pass coverage in the secondary goes. So they're banged up back there, but it's going to be hard to win games before you're standing. If the Colts don't adjust with the secondary and get a pass rush going because you play Tom Brady and Josh Allen two of the next three weeks,

and that's going to be, I think, a nightmare scenario if they don't get things fixed here soon because the way Josh Johnson put up almost 300 yards passing and the Jets put up 500 yards of total offense, even in a blowout win, they let them back in that game. It just had a really sour taste about the way the Colts defense played in that second half. What was your thoughts?

Yeah, I mean, similar thoughts for the most part I I was upset because it seemed like Matt Eberflus went to just a pure vanilla just don't let him throw a get a big play over the top cover two which you know it's cover two but in the first was running stunts, he was running twists, he was running some stuff with the defensive lineman every once in a while, he would send a guy. The second half, it didn't seem like he was doing that at all. The Sadeo Odom point is valid. They're not good at safety. The team really misses Julian Blackman and his playmaking ability in the back end, along with Kyrie Willis and their steady pace there in the back. Xavier Rhodes was not great to start the game.

I thought he started to get a little bit better as the game went on. Brock has been – actually, Brock, I think, has been pretty good for the most part all year. I think tonight was his first penalty that he got called for. And so I've been kind of happy with him. I do wish that they would give Isaiah Rogers more run over in Xavier Rhodes' place over there on the other side. I think Xavier Rhodes would be a much more valuable backup at this point. I don't know how well he would take that, but I just think he's such a good leader

and such a good mentor for these guys that it's beneficial to have him in the locker room and have him in the corner room, but he might be a detriment here or there, and I'd like to see what they've got with Isaiah Rogers more than anything else. Kenny Moore is one of the best cornerbacks in the NFL. I'm not even going to say slot cornerbacks. I'm going to say he's

one of the best corners in the NFL, and he'll never get that credit outside of Colts country. The secondary needs some work, for sure, and this is not to take away from the fact that the pass rush wasn't really getting there. Iberflues kept rushing four, sometimes rushing three, and just leaving huge holes in the zone. And the pass rush just wasn't getting home. I do think that it's interesting. It was fun to see Deo there and see, his body type because he really does look like DeForest Buckner

standing next to when they were walking over to sideline together after a tackle it was really weird I was like wow he really is just tall and long and lanky and if he can really pick it up and start to play how they hope he can play, he's going to be great. One really bright spot I want to point out on the defense, though, is Taylor Stolzath played really well today. He's probably his best name is bro. But the guy I really want to talk about is Bobby Okereke. He played fantastic. He's been playing like just an absolute beast the past two games.

And I'm really starting to see him feel more comfortable in that middle linebacker, the Anthony Walker role, that he just didn't seem comfortable in to start the season. So it's really good to see Okereke to really come out and play very well against both the Titans and now the Jets. And so I'm just excited for that. But I wish they would give Isaiah Rodgers more time at corner. And they've got to figure out something to do back there at safety because Odom and Sandeo, they ain't doing it. And that's just truth right there.

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised, honestly, if we see Jalil Ade, former Charger who they signed to the practice squad, once he gets going in like a week or two, he takes a lot of those snaps because he's a legit starting safety veteran from Los Angeles, San Diego. And I could see him probably playing a lot more than Sandejo and Odom moving forward here. And once Kari Willis is back in three weeks, that's going to be a huge boost as well to the safeties.

But last point here before we close out the show, Steve, I appreciate your time as always. I want to hit on the next four weeks because there's eight games left. So I'm going to split into one part being four weeks and the other part being the last four weeks. We'll just hit on the first part here. And I think the Colts in this scenario,

they're four and five. You probably have wiggle room for at least one loss at most two losses, 10 and seven to probably make the playoffs this year so in this scenario you had the jaguars next sunday which i think they're going to roll just like i did today against the jets and you play at buffalo home against tom brady and tambe buccaneers then you're at houston so i think there's two automatic wins in that but i think what's going to be so key for this team steve i think one of of these two, you can drop a loss here in this segment because I think

they might drop another segment when you play the Patriots, Cardinals, Raiders, and Jaguars and won't be shocked to lose one of those games, but I think quite honestly for their own playoff hopes, Stephen, you have to split one of Buffalo or Tampa Bay coming up here because this is a massive stretch over the next month of the season for the Colts, but I think they have to at least

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They're at home. And then they really don't have any margin for error now after screwing up Baltimore screwing up that Monday night football game at Baltimore and having that those six points that they decided not to go for against the Los Angeles Rams and then obviously the loss to Tennessee where literally if they just did this week's game plan against Tennessee in the fourth quarter, then the game's over and the Colts win that game. And we're talking about how the Colts are now tied with Tennessee for the lead in the AFC South. But alas, that didn't happen. Ultimately, the Colts realistically for these last, what, seven games, last eight

games, um, they've got to go six and two at least. And they can do it. Don't get me wrong. I think they can do it. I think they'll win against the Jags. I think, I honestly think that they can beat Buffalo in Buffalo. And Tampa Bay isn't unbeatable. It's not like I'm looking at any of these games.

The Texans, Patriots, Raiders, and Jaguars, I think those are all winnable games for the Colts. That at Arizona is going to be a tough one. But so you, you got to hope that they finish at least six and two. And if they do that, then they've got a shot. Then you've got to hope that, you know, that Tennessee and similarly finishes their season, like two and seven or three and six because at that point then

the Colts would surpass them in the AFC South and look into the Titans schedule it's no cakewalk either they've got the Rams and Saints to start for the next two weeks so those aren't going to be easy then you've got they're at New England and then they've got at the Steelers, and then versus the 49ers. Who knows what the Dolphins are going to be late in the season. For whatever reason, the Dolphins always seem to show up a little bit later in the season and screw up their draft spot. So the Titans, similar to the Colts, have four games in there

that are going to be tough games. And if the Titans right now without Derrick Henry lose some of those games, that opens the door for the Colts. Ideally, what I'd like is the Tennessee Titans to lose the next four games and the Colts to win the next four games. And then we can just be talking about the Colts as the leader in the AFC South going into what, week 13, something like that. I think that would be the best case scenario.

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