Just like that, he looked fine
But a 300-yard passing game with two touchdowns and no interceptions in a 30-28 win over the Titans, following a three-week swing with 11 picks, wiped away the I’m-in-pain grimace and allowed for something else entirely.
After the Colts got their record to 7-6 and earned a long rest before a crucial matchup with Jacksonville on Dec. 19, Manning might as well have been at Zanies — the comedy club a few miles from LP Field — with some of the lines he delivered on the NFL Network and in the interview room.
“Somebody asked, ‘Are you in a slump?’” he said. “And I said, ‘Well, I guess maybe I was but I’ve been on about an eight-and-a-half year hitting streak going into that.'”
With a well-rounded effort in which the Colts took a big lead and held off Tennessee, they got into a lot of manageable third downs, ran the ball 32 times despite some ineffective carries, took the ball away twice while not turning it over and found enough big plays at pivotal moments to regain their balance.
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