The Indianapolis Colts and the Jacksonville Jaguars will face off on Sunday in the National Football League 2015 regular season, and the Colts will be expected to come away from EverBank Field in Jacksonville with nothing less than a win.
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After the game T.Y. Hilton said the last two games have been humiliating.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) – The Streak is over, ending in lopsided fashion and against an unlikely foe. The Colts need him available on Sunday if Andrew Luck can’t play (and I wouldn’t bet on it at this point), as otherwise it would be Charlie Whitehurst starting in the most important game of the season.
Blake Bortles threw for three touchdowns and ran for another – all in the second half – and the Jacksonville Jaguars beat Indianapolis 51-16 on Sunday to end the Colts’ 16-game winning streak in the AFC South.
The Indianapolis Colts (6-6) are still on the verge of fighting for their division. The win puts the Jaguars at 5-8 and keeps their slim playoff hopes alive for another week.
“When [the ball] hit the ground, I got a flawless bounce”, said Branch. He does not yet feel 100 percent. “We do too much stupid stuff, too much”. Those two teams play next week and the Jaguars still have a game remaining against Houston.
– Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) December 14, 2015Complicating Colts’ QB situation, Matthew Hasselbeck was spotted leaving stadium on Sunday night with his left arm in a sling. Six of those points came from a Robert Mathis recovery of a bad snap into the Jaguars own end zone. “We’re still digging, still clawing”.
“Now I didn’t know it was going to be the flawless bounce and returned for a touchdown”. When you lose, all hell breaks loose. Toler hurt his knee in last weekend’s loss at Pittsburgh.
Then the second half happened, and the Jaguars struck with big play after big play with an absent Indy pass rush.
For the Colts to earn the right to play into January this season, they will have to finish off drives more consistently and eliminate some of the chunk plays they are allowing. The Jaguars’ all-time scoring record is 62 points set in a playoff game against the Miami Dolphins in January 1999. The stairway to seven won’t be easy, but it is definitely possible, and if achieved could be the best one yet for the Steelers franchise.
“Throwing felt great. Conditioning-wise, it’s a process”, he said. “We’re a step closer to where we want to be”.
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He is in this position to start with because Andrew Luck is working his back from a lacerated kidney and abdominal tear. Slowing down as he was heading for the sideline at the end of a scramble early in the fourth quarter, Hasselbeck was shoved from behind by Jaguars linebacker Telvin Smith and landed hard, injuring his ribs (and appearing to aggravate last week’s shoulder injury) in the process.
