Whoever wins the Colts/Texans matchup at Lucas Oil Stadium next Sunday will be in the driver’s seat of the division for the final two weeks of the season.
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The Colts upcoming game against the Texans is the most significant game left on their schedule as the two teams are tied for first place in the division. “Everybody counted us out, everyone is off the bandwagon, we’ve got nothing to lose, just win”.
The victor of this week’s game will be in the driver’s seat for both the division title and a spot in the playoffs.
“He took a couple good shots there”, said Colts head coach Chuck Pagano after the game. “These guys will show up, I promise you”. Three out of the last four games in the series have been decided by seven points or less. He came to the Colts after losing a quarterback battle with Zach Mettenberger on the Titans last season.
Now, if the Indianapolis Colts are going to maintain their stranglehold on the AFC South, they’re probably going to need to start a new one against Houston next week. After that, the Jaguars did a good job of mixing up the run and pass, particularly when Denard Robinson got more involved after an injury to T.J.
With Andrew Luck still recovering from a kidney injury, backup Matt Hasselbeck left the team’s 51-16 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars Sunday with a rib injury.
Indianapolis isn’t expected to decide on their quarterback options until later this week, although there is a chance that Hasselbeck will be able to suit up against Houston. I think it is safe to say the Pagano era will be over soon and it’s quite possible Grigson will be gone too. “Taking it day-to-day, but hopeful he’ll be out there at least by Thursday”. But McCoy was the first player off the field after the game, sprinting toward the locker room when the clock expired and slamming his helmet into the wall. But he’s not going to get caught up in what-ifs. Doctors know that Luck can not risk elevating his heart rate because it would pump more blood through his kidneys, delaying the healing process, according to medical sources.
“Spending 26 days in the hospital was tough”. May have taken things for granted in the past. “If I’m in Boise next year playing with my granddaughters, I’ll be fine”, he said.
The Jaguars had earlier scored on Andre Branch’s strip sack of Hasselbeck, who was 18 of 35 for 252 yards before being replaced by Charlie Whitehurst. Colts linebacker Robert Mathis recovered the ball in the end zone after it went through the hands of Bortles on a hard, high snap from center Stefen Wisniewski. It also changed the momentum of the game.
Bortles has thrown for 3,524 yards, with 30 touchdowns and 13 interceptions, in his second season.
-RUSHING OFFENSE: C plus.
-RB Frank Gore rushed for 60 yards on 16 carries to lead the Colts ground game. He has averaged 3.6 yards per carry this season. Equally as embarrassing for Houston: The Texans couldn’t find a way to beat the Colts back in October, when Hasselbeck was fighting through the nasty effects of food poisoning.
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Heading into the 2015 regular season, there was a lot of hype surrounding the quarterbacks in the AFC South. Anticipation surrounded the debut of Tennessee’s rookie Marcus Mariota, Indianapolis’s Andrew Luck was poised for an MVP-type season, and Jacksonville’s Blake Bortles was set to follow up a solid rookie campaign.
