Trying to get back on my good side

Easterbrook loves on the Horse some more this week

The Colts have won 12 of their past 13 games, the sole loss being a fluky overtime playoff defeat in which there were numerous late flags and Indianapolis never got a chance at the ball in overtime. Are the Colts this year’s monster team? TMQ is forecasting a Super Bowl of Indianapolis versus New Orleans. (Remember my column motto: All Predictions Wrong or Your Money Back.) Manning and Drew Brees are the two best quarterbacks at the moment, and both teams are fascinating to watch — Indianapolis because it calls plays at the line, and because Manning is the first NFL quarterback since Jim Kelly in the early 1990s to call his own plays; New Orleans because it’s using a straight-out-of-high-school spread offense. The Colts always seem to struggle with injuries and this year is no exception; if they’re healthy, I like them to return to Miami, where they won the last Super Bowl played in that city. You’ve got to be a power team to win two road night games in six days (the Week 2 Monday night game at Miami, then the Week 3 Sunday night game at Arizona). Everyone talks about Peyton’s offense, but Indianapolis played stout defense in 2008 and just held the high-scoring Cardinals to 10 points on their home field.