If the victor of the Colts/Texans contest next week wins their final two games, they will represent the AFC South in the playoffs.
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Already without Andrew Luck the Colts saw backup Matt Hasselbeck get beaten and battered in a blowout loss to the Jaguars on Sunday. He has been really bad the past two weeks and is extremely beat up but he still gives the Colts a better chance to win than Charlie Whitehurst.
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“So, immobilizing the arm helps with the spasms”, Pagano said. In addition to the lacerated kidney, tests also revealed a partial tear in Luck’s abdominal wall.
“We’ll take a look at it when the season’s over, to see just how far we’ve come along – and the direction”, Bradley said after the Jaguars outscored the Colts 42-3 in the second half Sunday to improve their home record to 4-3 this season. Luck wants to practice, but he still isn’t healthy enough to be there, which means a lot about his prospects regarding the Texans game, and maybe the rest of this season. The defense was without three starters (four if you continue to count Henry Anderson), forcing players like Bjoern Werner into a bigger role. “We know we elevated him up and like the way he’s going in practice”. The guys have done such a great job of making sure we’re still in the hunt and still in control of our own destiny.
Irsay had told NFL.com that he thought Luck should be able to play Sunday against the Houston Texans, but others in the Colts organization have not gotten any indication that that is close to happening at this time. Statements like that make people think you also need to go through the concussion protocol too.
Next week they face the sputtering Falcons at home, but then go to New Orleans to face the air attack of the Saints. “We got him involved getting more reps with the first group last week and one-on-one sessions”. He had one punt downed inside the Jaguars’ 20-yard line.
The (early) chances were there on Sunday for the Colts offense.
-FS Dwight Lowery doesn’t want to hear any talk about how the Colts are still tied for first even with a losing record.
Adding on to the red zone woes, Indianapolis has not been converting on third-down the past two games either. Indianapolis’ offense has been nearly non-existent the last two weeks. They’ve played well against teams like the Patriots, Panthers and Broncos but poorly against the Saints, Bills and Jaguars. They have lost back-to-back games by 35 points each, first to the Pittsburgh Pirates and now to the 5-8 Jacksonville Jaguars.
“My suggestion would be the risk of re-injuring it would be the same as before, ” said Joel Kory, a physician with St. Vincent Sports Medicine and Butler University’s team physician.
The Jaguars scored on offence, defence and special teams in the same game for the first time since 2011, the franchise’s most complete performance under third-year coach Gus Bradley.
It was just the 10th time since 1980 that seven or more players from the same team scored in the same game, according to STATS, LLC.
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Bortles was at his best in the second half.
