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Johnny O gets us ready to go

3)Seeking a streak. The Colts have won three consecutive games, and what’s remarkable about that is it sort of doesn’t seem like a big deal. That’s not that it has been easy, because winning streaks never are. Rather, it’s because such streaks have been part of the foundation on which the current run of success has been built. The Colts have won at least five consecutive games each of the past seven seasons – five in 2003, eight in 2004, 13 in 2005, nine in 2006, seven in 2007, nine in 2008 and 14 to start last season. They made the postseason each of those seasons, and won AFC South titles in 2003-2007 and last season. “If you had to speak to why we’ve done it in years past, I do think we’ve taken them one game at a time,” Manning said. “We haven’t looked at anything else. We prepare for an NFC East opponent, just like we do an AFC South opponent.”

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