Playing or not? We won’t find out for a few more days
When I asked Colts running back Joseph Addai about playing on, he said the decision was Caldwell’s and they would respect it. But he also made the point that when you’re a kid, you dream of winning the Super Bowl, not going undefeated.
“Maybe when you’re 50 down the road, that might mean something, but when you’re going through it, it’s about winning the Super Bowl,” Addai said.
Manning agreed when I mentioned that to him later.
“That [winning the Super Bowl] is all that really matters,” he said.
Manning, as much as anybody, knows what that Super Bowl ring means. You are defined by it. They said he wasn’t complete as a passer until he won one in February 2007.
The Colts have now won 23 consecutive games in the regular season and Caldwell tied George Seifert (San Francisco in 1989) as the only first-year coaches to win 14 games.
Records are falling all over the place with the Colts — and you can bet they care little about them.
This is a special team, even if it didn’t quite play that way Thursday night. They will be a special team even if they don’t play their starters the next two games, starting a week from Sunday against the New York Jets, and do lose a game.
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