UK_WhoDat

Flip of the coin. Both sides are exceptionally good. Offensively, the 2 best QBs are coming in and Mr Manning is probably the best. Without any shadow of a doubt, the Colts will score and score some. But so will the Saints. The Saints will give up a big play or two in the air and the Colts will probably get one big play rushing. Can Manning escape the Saints secondary that will come and come again with the overall defense applying all-game pressure. I think not totally. If the Saints get two breaks there then along with the ST we have a game breaker. It is that close.

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Stiggs

Yep. I feel good about our ball club being able to "hang around" for all 4 quarters, which always gives you a chance to win, like vs. Redskins and Vikes.

Choupique

Colts can be held to 20 or less

1 Sun, Sep 13 Jacksonville W 14-12

8 Sun, Nov 1 San Francisco W 18-14

9 Sun, Nov 8 Houston W 20-17

11 Sun, Nov 22 @ Baltimore W 17-15

16 Sun, Dec 27 NY Jets L 15-29

17 Sun, Jan 3 @ Buffalo L 7-30

DIV Sat, Jan 16 Baltimore W 20-3



The Saints are better than those teams who held the Dolts to a low scoring game. Granted, Manning wasn't in two of those games...

tuxicon

The colts are also undefeated when the starters play the whole game. So?

Don't you people realize the NFL is tough? People say that you "barely won" or "it wasn't convincing". Throw that stuff out the window. This is the big boys league last time I checked. There are millionaires on every team. Just because you don't "blow out" every team doesn't mean squat.

SaintPauly

I agree. This is the superbowl match up, I wanted to see in 06, before the Bears "weather" ruined our chances.

This game is going to come down to defense. Whoever's defense shows up, will win this game. The Vikings can blame the refs, and bad calls all they want, but the stat that killed them, was the 5 turnovers. And guess who has the most redzone recovered turnovers in the league this year? You guessed it, the Saints. As said before, you can rack up the yards all you want from goal line, to goal line, but if you throw interceptions, or fumble when you get there, you are screwed.

I'm only saying this, because I've watched him, and with all of his talent, which is ALOT, Manning is NOT without his flaws. Just like Favre, Brees, Eli, or Romo, he makes mistakes, when he's under pressure. Get to him often, and early, and he will make bad throws. And our secondary LOVES bad throws. And honestly, I see this being the game plan on both sides. The Colts are going to try and do the same thing to us, because they recognize the same weakness.

Who's better against the blitz.... Manning, or Brees? I call this one a toss up this year. This is going to be a heckuva fight.

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Jabba

Thing is... Manning is Stellar against blitzes as is our offensive line. The Jets got to him a little in the 1st quarter... but after that nothing. They adjusted, and protected Peyton perfectly. The way to get pressure on Manning IMO, is to have a D-Lineman beat someone mano y mano. You can't audible out of that. That is where any successful pressure will come from. You really can't scheme pressure on the Colts for very long. Those guys are smart. Not only Peyton and Tom Moore and Howard Mudd, but Jeff Saturday and the other O-linemen too. They are absolutely unbelieveable when it comes to protections, and figuring out how to read, pick up and beat blitzes.

I said in another thread I thought the whole game comes down to IF the Colts protect Manning or not. If they do... they win. If they don't they lose.

11 days till the most anticipated SB I can remember. When the Colts beat the Bears... I KNEW Chicago has little chance. Even after Hester took the opening kicj off to the house. My wife was like... "Uh oh...". I told her relax. There is a LONG way to go. I still give the Bears about a 2% chance of winning this game. There was simply NO-ONE in the NFC that year that had a sporting chance to beat, whoever won the AFCCG. This year is different though. It's NOT a slam dunk for who wins. I believe the Colts have the edge... but its 60/40. not 98/2 like last time.

11 days to go.

Jabba