The Colts are going all the way no im not jumpin on the band wagon thats not my team. but Peyton has that great offensive strategy the no huddle and i saw cinn. try to do it but its nothing like the colts. there going to beat miami's record
Sheesh, I'd love to see the Colts play up to...well, what they seem to be projecting right now, which I guess I've got to call excellence. OTOH, I'm a Pats fan, and so that's where I've mostly seen the Colts, and based on that I wouldn't bet a sixpack on 'em. Logically, they should win the Super Bowl, but logically, they should have won in Foxboro long before this season, too. My head says they'll do it, my gut says don't count on it.
Tough to say: best case scenario is the Hawks are 12-2, the Colts are 14-0, which is hardly lopsided, hence the interest. There's no way Dungy rests anyone if they're still going for an undefeated season- the players might revolt (and I'd finally shut up that Dolphins fan who seems to still be living in 1972), and besides they'll already be getting a bye in the first round- no point in resting people too much before the playoffs, or you get rusty! The Seahawks are the weaker team, and still haven't "put all the pieces together" despite their record. Then again, Seattle'd be 13-1 if a couple of plays go differently, and they're getting better as the season goes on, which should worry a lot of teams. They didn't come out strong and then stumble their way to a decent record; the Hawks stumbled out of the gate, and now have strung 8 wins in a row. The Seahawks seem to have "focus-itis": that strange diseases where really good teams get cocky and forget to bring their A-game against mediocre teams and end up in a far more competitive contest than they expected. The Seahawks shouldn't have that problem against the Colts, because they all know that it'll take every ounce of effort to beat them. The Hawks may be playing for pride alone at that point, having wrapped up homefield throughout the conference barring a collapse against weak team before Week 16 against the Colts. They'll likely be 12-2 going into Week 16. Both Chicago and Carolina play some 7-5 and 8-4 teams before then, and a loss by either of those teams would guarantee the Hawks the bye week with 13 wins. Anything can happen, and the Colts could fall to a team like the Seahawks. I certainly think the Colts will bring their full effort, as will the Seahawks, unless the Colts have already lost by that point. Any silliness of "resting" won't matter: they're a guaranteed first round bye already, and that's when you rest your team for the playoffs if you have the luxury, not two weeks beforehand. Whatever the case may be, on December 24th, I plan on watching what will hopefully a tense classic, full of import and significance, in the company of good friends.
Of course the Seahawks 'should' have lost that game to the Giants, Hal *coughJayFeeleycough*.
I hear people saying this all the time. Does anyone have any actual evidence to back this up? Have there been teams that benched some star players in the last game or two and then got destroyed in the playoffs? Can anyone name any? Or are we just perpetuating this by repeating it again and again? Awhile back (I don't remember exactly when) the Denver Broncos were the dominant team throughout the regular season, the coach benched the starters, and the Broncos got destroyed by the Jaguards in the first round of the playoffs.
*jaguars
Jay Feely choked and gave back that game that the refs handed to the Giants on a silver platter. The Giants,however, did not deserve to win that game considering that the league called to apologize to the SeaHawks for allowing 2 bogus TD's for NYG in one badly refereed game.
I think that whole benching thing is the worst explanation for a defeat ever What about the teams that got beat when they didn't bench their players? People want to use any questionable coaching decision they can find to explain why a team got beat. I just can't see why resting a player would hurt their level of performance.
oh yeah, the giant game... bad officiating... haha... no really... go Hawks.
let me know what u think I think you need to find another site for this kind of post. See locker room discussion.
What owlhouse said. What's wrong with this FPP? The article wasn't about "will the Seahawks beat the Colts", it was "will the Colts have an undefeated season". You can cherrypick links all you want and try to come up with one that takes the exact slant that you want the subsequent discussion to take, but it's bogus to misrepresent the link in an effort to create "go my team" chat.
The next-to-last time I thought a really good team might go undefeated, the #2-ranked USC Gamecocks choked against Navy 38-21. The last time I thought it would happen -- a little more than a year later, in fact -- the Bears lost to the Dolphins 38-24. In other words...if the Seahawks score thirty-eight points, look out.
The Seahawks are going to loaded for bear, and the colts aren't going to be able to protect Manning. Just as we did to Vick, Westbrook, with our defense to the 265lb TE Brett Pierce (a really tough game where this weapon was neutralized by the Seahawks beating him into submission.) when they played dallas. The seahawks will hurt someone on the colts' team the seahawks have proven that they can play to win with back ups and now the weapons for the offense are back. The colts lines both offense and defense aren't going to be able to handle Seattle. THats the game in a nut shell for you, right there.
