Now, just because I can, I’d like to heap praise on the Colts’ organization. The headlines are first this year’s 12-0 record and second that they tied the Pats for most consecutive regular season wins. The first is impressive but adequately appreciated. The second seems hollow, since everybody knows that the Colts lost a game to the Chargers in the playoffs, while the Patriots won all their playoff games
What I think is most impressive is that they have now won 12 straight for the seventh straight year. That’s just an incredible run of consistency and dominance. Since 2001, the Pats (the league’s best franchise) has four 12-plus-win seasons. Joe Montana’s 49ers won 12-plus games five times in his 10 seasons. Troy Aikman’s Cowboys won 12 games four times. The Lions have won 12 games — wait for it, wait for it — once in their entire history. The fact that the Colts have only won the one Super Bowl perhaps deservedly undermines how remarkable a run they are on.
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