King picks his All Pro team (Freeney, Clark and Manning), and 18 is the MVP.
“You can’t go out there and play your B game, because you won’t beat those guys,” Brady said after throwing for 332 yards in Sunday’s win over the Dolphins. “They’re good. They can rush the passer. They cover. Obviously, they can score a lot of points. They run it, they throw it, they have very good special teams, so we’ve got to match them. We’ve got to do the same thing this year on the road, you know, we’ve had a couple good first halves and not so good of second halves, so we’re going to need a four-quarter game.”
A four-quarter game. Ouch. The remark is a reminder of what happened to the 2006 Patriots when they played the AFC Championship Game in the old Hoosier Dome. The ’06 Pats were 14-4 with playoff wins over the Jets and Chargers when they got to Indianapolis. They were on a mission to win a fourth Super Bowl in six seasons and it looked like they were on their way to XLI in Miami when they bolted to a 21-3 lead over the Colts. It was 21-6 at halftime.
And then the Patriots imploded. They surrendered 32 second half points and lost, 38-34. The Colts went on to win their only Super Bowl of the Manning Era.
Indy has been overlooked at 8-0
• Most overlooked storyline: The Colts are undefeated, again: Maybe it’s because Indy has started 8-0 in three of the past five seasons now, and we bore easily. But where’s the love for a Colts team that has been perfect despite breaking in a new head coach (Jim Caldwell), is on a 17-game regular-season winning streak, and is getting it done without a running game, Marvin Harrison, or much in the way of healthy veterans in the secondary? Perhaps it’s because Indy has beaten just two teams that currently have a winning record (Arizona and Houston).
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