lol they should watch broncos film.

every o-line holds, if you hold and your hands are inside the shoulders than it will never be called. offensive linemen (and defensive) are taught this from the start since before high school.

the patriots o-line played without 3 or more starters almost all season and was still one of the best in the league :) doesnt matter how they did it, they did it

I'm going to continue to root them on to have some awesome seasons...but as soon as the season's over, I'm just going to accept fact from fiction now...thats it. As long as we keep this Colts team together, they will always be an awesome, and entertaining team to watch during regular season play... hell they have been for about 6 years now! However they just aren't a playoff caliber team. As soon as the intensity gets turned up, they fall apart.

I'm going to keep that in mind for next season, so I don't get my heart broke like this year. The NFL is only getting tougher. The bengals are on the rise, Jacksonville is on the rise, New England will still be tough, and Pitsburgh will still be tough. Regular season should be awesome...post season will be non existant! yeah GO COLTS!

One of the best post season weekends I have ever seen. My favorite teams won just as i said(GO STEELERS), but as much as I love THE STEELER, I cant honestly say who is going to win the game next weekend. Carolina will beat the seahawks. This years SB will be Great.

I'll be rooting Denver on next weekend... My dad called me and said we need to root on the steelers because my mom is from Clarion PA... I said screw that, I hate the steelers, and refuse to root for them. I think this is the 3rd time now they've kept us out of the superbowl.

Only hope I have for "next year" is that we don't give up any more games... the only explanation for the 6th seed beating the first seed is "rust". I dunno, it doesn't make sense at all... Was that really the Colts or the Houstan Texan in colts player costumes? by the way the played if I didn't know better I might of believed that last statement...

Though I gotta give props to Jim irsay, the colts owner, for going out there and giving fans hope for a new season. He addressed the crowd following the game, and said its hard to see them go down after such a great season but don't loose faith because they will get their trophey!

I hope he's right. I, for one, am starting to loose faith.

seattle vs steelers in the bowl, seattle wins

plummer couldnt remain calm against the pats and he had much more time and chances than the steelers will give him. steelers should be able to hold the run almost as good as the pats did

it's the manning curse... cant win under pressure

well I have to admit its hard to hate Pitsburgh when your team just came out and played their worst game of the season... and pitsburgh honestly probably played their best game of the season. I don't think Denver has enough weapons to beat 'em, so they'll probably be this years superbowl champs. Bummer...

On a positive note, with all the fairweather fans in this town, now might be an ideal time to stock up on colts merchandise... it'll probably all be clearanced out tommorrow.

well what can i say? what a sh*tty day of football. the colts was a mega disapointment, and someone needed to tell the bears defence there was a game today. its kinda funny the bears are my team, but i think i was more disapionted in the colts. i guess i really thought the colts were going to take it all this year. guess i was wrong. it was a really great game though. had the bears not have been expected to go like 6-10 this season i would have been more dissapionted. but even though we lost i think we still proved something to the league. that is rex grossman is a much better qb then anyone thought. and if our o plays as well as they did tonight, then the playoffs alot easier to get in.

maybe next season.

well there isn't much more to say about today... obvious interference on randle el on a big pass play and the INT that got overturned, two horrible calls


the steelers came out and totally shocked the colts with the pass..ben went 6-7 on the first drive, should have been 7-7 if randle el caught the first pass, and scored while only running twice for like 0 yards. the colts were playin the run off the bat and they gave them a complete 180. the steelers got a good rush and dint let manning get comfortable and that is the only way to beat him.

bettis fumbles on the 1 with less than 2 minutes in possibly his last game, then mike v misses a clutch field goal! two things u will prolly never see again

randle el made up for his first miss with that catch in the endzone... that was a bad pass

add that to troy brown muffing a punt(around here is considered to be as probable as larry bird missing 2 free throws in a row with the game on the line... aka wont happen). the worst pass intereference call in playoff history. and a large tight end running over 110 yards total distance to clean champ bailey's clock. (by the way how can champ bailey say he was completely out of gas while watson ran further and full speed nailed him... if you ask me he was just jogging because he thought he was home free, dont blame him tho, he got blindsided)

what an odd weekend

oh i forgot denver's punter cause a fumble, and big ben saving a game winning touchdown, and steve smith's god-like day

could be setting up for a very attention grabbing super bowl (pitt vs carolina) or a west coast bowl (denver vs seattle)
my favorite option is seattle vs pitt

lol I love Mike V's quote...its the best quote really for all of the idssapointed colts fans...

"its as if the lord forgot about this footballl team"....

dude, it's Karma.
Steal a team in the night, you don't win a SuperBowl, evar.
(Ravens don't count, because the Browns didn't miss a season, as they were expansioned a ''new'' Browns right after they left).

lol I never thought about it that way...


We did sort of steal them from baltimore

Maybe it is Karma...

There is no way he "ran out of gas" who runs out of gas a few yards from the end zone?. Even the other denever blockers who were running with him had stopped running hard and were kind of celebrating. Great play by Watson, would have been even better if they made the right call and called it a touchback.

Well, I guess everything that could be said about the Steelers/Colts game has been said. I would like to note the "if Ben throws more than 20 passes, the Steelers will lose" comment. Not true. People don't give him enough credit for being an extremely accurate passer. When the Steelers need someone to pass in clutch situations, I don't think there's any other QB in the league I'd want back there besides maybe Tom Brady. There were a couple bad calls (Polamalu's INT being the worst), but all-in-all it was a very entertaining game. I feel bad that Dungy didn't get farther due to all the stuff that's happnened, but I'm ecstatic that the Steelers are still peaking now. Next week vs. Denver will be very tough again. But I really think this is the year a #6 seed gets to the big game. Carolina is in the same boat as the Steelers. They are playing better than they have all season right now. The two conference championship games next week will be incredible. I'm going to go with a Pittsburgh/Carolina Super Bowl.

By the way, I didn't break anything skiing this weekend. I only fell four times and two of them weren't my fault. This little girl was going 80 mph and cut me off = fall number one. Also, when I got off the lift one time, I thought we were going left, but my girlfriend abruptly said to go right. I overcompensated = fall number two. The other two times consisted of me going down a slope too fast that was too steep and also darting through the woods (didn't mean to....just sorta happened). Now I feel like my lower body got run over by a moving van.

Nothing against Watson that was one of the best hustles Ive ever seen in any sport ever. Trust me on this one, you try to cover a fast as s#*t reciever get an interception in the endzone and run it 102 yard after a half of football. He should have held the ball better but I can see him running out of gas.

well the route was only 5 yards, watson ran further and faster for the whole time, thats my point, i know its tough not to be out of breath, i sure as **** couldnt make it halfway lol

well i might be half right with my begining pic of the steelers and bucs. i also said i like carolina. at this point i am going for denver, but really couldnt care either way. the wind has really been taken out of my sails. i thought atleast one of my teams would make it. damn the luck.

I've been watching this thread closely...... I just now got around to dropping my opinion in here.

My pick from 2 months ago was teh Seahawks. My avatar may have something to do with their awesome season so far.

W00t w00t!!! The Hawks haven't been down this road very often, so I just hope to hell that 06 is the year they get to play in the SB.

maybe so either way I don't really care much anymore... Any of the 4 teams remaining could take it all the way, and honestly I wouldn't care either way...

I remember last year when the Colts crashed and burned to new england, Don stuck, a DJ On WRZX's morning show said it best "Peyton loosing is abuse... STOP IT!"

Thats how i feel. I'm looking on foward to the next season... I'm looking for the Colts defense to get tougher, and the league in general to get alot tougher... I think the easy schedule for the Colts got the best of them overall... it really was an inevitable 13-0 start... as at that point the only so called "real" teams were a crippled new england, a rising star cincy, and a rusty Ben rothlisberger based Pitsburgh...

I know i haven't given them their due credit... and now I am. Honestly, the colts had an easy time with them last time due to the Rust. Ben's first game back, and he was powerless... Peyton managed to catch them off guard with one long TD Pass, but it wasn't exactly a big day for offense that day either. Pitsburgh's Defense was tough. We got 2 touch downs by catching the D off guard the first time, and by an interception the second time...the rest of the time Pitsburgh's D limited us to only field goals.

had Ben been full strength, it would of been a long day for the Colts...and either team could of won. In a way I am kind of hoping they go the whole way this year, as they had their dream season shattered in 2004-05, and now they are finally getting a chance to finish it. I'm hoping its a sign that maybe Indy can pick up the slack next year. And it will a much more challenging year for the Colts. The schedule was just too damn easy this year. Here's who we are playing next year

Tennessee X2
Jacksonville X2
Houston X2
New England
Buffalo
Miami
NY. Jets
NY Giants
Washington
Dallas
Phillidelphia
Cincinatti
Denver

The teams in bold are teams I look to give the colts either losses or tough games...needless to say screw undefeated status... the undefeated thing ruined the superbowl run, as it basically gave the Colts a 1 month vacation, and made them a bit to cokky, and little pitsburgh, going in there with a 5 game momentum and nothing to loose to a team expecting them to play a "typical running game" changed the game up completly on them!

Next year... things will be different...but I wouldn't bet money on it, lol

Expect to hear a lot less S**t talk next year!

edit: heres what I think Indy needs for a succefull season next year. The defense has to become stronger... it went from #28 to #11, but I won't be satisfied till its in the top 5. And for godsakes the Offensive line needs to be tougher. Also I'll admit it, Peyton needs to relax, and let Dungy call more shots... I think the ultimate game deciding factor was Peyton trying to throw a touchdown pass on 3rd and 2 when he needed to just give it to james and get the first down.