Will the Colts go undefeated this season?
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Probably one loss sometime before the regular season ends is more likely.
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In a league filled with parody, they are just a complete team.
The 12/24 game at Seattle looks like a great game, but both teams may be resting starters.
I think they go undefeated.
can beat them it will be the Jags. Forget Lefwich, Jags win with D
JS
<< <i>Seattle will be resting Alexander and Hasselbeck, so unless Mo Morris can run on that d, I don't see them beating the Colts. If anyone
can beat them it will be the Jags. Forget Lefwich, Jags win with D
JS >>
So you are here stalin?
Where you been hiding, the woodshed, or under the bed?
Gotten your thumb out of your mouth long enough to post I see....ya big baby.
As far as the Colts go and resting there Offensive players how about their Defensive players ie. Freeney and company they are playing out of their minds. I cant see anyone beating them from here on out, I dont believe Dungy knows how to take players out of games, watching my Patriots get smashed by the colts Dungy kept Edge in late in the game with less than three minutes to go and kept pounding him up the middle even though he was approaching thirty plus carries.
<< <i>I think if they run up to 14-0, they will treat the last 2 games like preseason game swith the starters playing a couple series, then resting, with potential losses there. >>
Forget it. The worst thing to happen to the Colts is 14-0. The entire nation would never forgive the Colts unless they played those last two games to win. Definatley one of those rare instances where what is good for the team will not happen. I don't expect you to understand this Ax. Afterall, you are an idiot
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Forget it. The worst thing to happen to the Colts is 14-0. The entire nation would never forgive the Colts unless they played those last two games to win. Definatley one of those rare instances where what is good for the team will not happen. I don't expect you to understand this Ax. Afterall, you are an idiot. >>
softie do you ever understand what's best for the team isn't what America wants? I mean not like you know anything about sports, but if you really think Dungy is going to have his starters in for a full game after his team has already clinched homefield throughout the playoffs, well, YOU are the idiot.
Dungy is an incredibly smart coach, and has forgotten more about football than your tiny little brain could ever hope to comprehend. He won't risk his team or his super bowl run on pushing his team to 16-0.
Softie, go away...don't come back until you make one ounce of sense.
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In a league filled with parody, they are just a complete team. >>
LOL!!! The XFL was the league filled with parody!!
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softie do you ever understand what's best for the team isn't what America wants? I mean not like you know anything about sports, but if you really think Dungy is going to have his starters in for a full game after his team has already clinched homefield throughout the playoffs, well, YOU are the idiot.
Dungy is an incredibly smart coach, and has forgotten more about football than your tiny little brain could ever hope to comprehend. He won't risk his team or his super bowl run on pushing his team to 16-0.
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nah, Dungy will start them all, unless injured AND play to win. Since you are incredibly stupid Axtell, I will SAY AGAIN. What is BEST for the Colts will not happen if they enter the last couple of weeks at 14-0. It will be the NATION that will want to see the Colts go 16-0. Do you read backwards dingbat?
Did I not tell you to unplug your computer WEEKS ago?
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nah, Dungy will start them all, unless injured AND play to win. Since you are incredibly stupid Axtell, I will SAY AGAIN. What is BEST for the Colts will not happen if they enter the last couple of weeks at 14-0. It will be the NATION that will want to see the Colts go 16-0. Do you read backwards dingbat?
Did I not tell you to unplug your computer WEEKS ago? >>
softie, you wouldn't know what was best for the team if it walked up, b**** slapped you, peed on your leg, then walked away.
Dungy doesn't owe ANYBODY anything...and he certainly doesn't owe selfish, mindless cretans like yourself his starters just so you can say 'I watch the last team go undefeated!'
Dungy doesn't care what anyone outside his locker room thinks, never has, never will. He knows that his team comes first, and he knows that getting to the super bowl is #1 priority, undefeated record be damned.
But in your delusional, self-centered little life, you think that he owes it to you to run his team undefeated. Well, SPANKY, he doesn't.
Now get to bed, before your momma comes down and slaps you for being online late looking at pr0n.
Also, don't for one second THINK you know what is going on in Tony Dungy's head. Because you don't. You talk like the guy grew up next door to you and used you as his sounding board.
Ax, STOP making things up..... you are what, about 12 years old by now right? You should be able to read by now.
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I'll leave it at this. If *you* didn't want the team to run the table, then *you* wouldn't be stumping for the Colts to run the table saying " It will be the NATION that will want to see the Colts go 16-0."
You are the idiot.
You are the imbecile.
Go away...you flip flop worse than a pair of sandals. You jump on either side of a debate, simply to argue with me. You remind of that annoying kid in 'a league of their own'.
When I say NATION I am talking about the majority. NOT MY OPINION. But you are a pinhead so its all good. Problem is, your an a$$hole AND a pinhead. Not a good mix.
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<< <i> even if the Colts gain home field advantage during the playoffs before the regular season ends. He will not rest his starters - he'll figure the players will have the bye-week to rest. >>
This is exactly how I see this playing out if the Colts are sitting at 14-0. No way Dungy is dumb enough to play his healthy starters for a few series a game and THEN have a week off too. No way ...
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you honestly think a head coach, with his best chance of winning the super bowl, is going to put his starters at risk for 2 full games if he has home field throughout the playoffs, just to go undefeated and make a point?
Dungy sees the bigger picture, he sees that the super bowl, NOT an undefeated season is the real prize here....I think YOU softie are so selfish and short sighted that you think in your infinite delusion that you are OWED a perfect season in your lifetime (meh, typical yankee lover attitude there).
<< <i>.I think YOU softie are so selfish and short sighted that you think in your infinite delusion that you are OWED a perfect season in your lifetime (meh, typical yankee lover attitude there). >>
Where did I ever say that I am owed anything???? How did your empty pinhead conjure up this? Just like last week when you made up some bull$hit about how I IDOLIZE Jeremy Shockey. Fabrication in your windy head .....THEN you try and cross reference this with me being a Yankee fan. My goodness, the word IDIOT does not do you justice!
I can CARE LESS which way Tony Dungy goes with this. I don't GIVE A CRAP. My thoughts on how this will play out has NOTHING to do with what I think "should" happen. It has everything to do with what PROBABLY will happen, REGARDLESS of what I think.
Is any of this sinking into your hollow Easter Bunny head ax?
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it's evident the name 'soft' in your name comes directly from your 'soft' skull which obviously resulted in a great deal of brain damage. It's ok, we appreciate the effort.
You have been stumping for days that Dungy and the Colts would have to go for the undefeated record...if *you* don't believe it, then why are your running your immature little mouth about it? How stupid are you that you argue one side of a debate, but now you're saying you don't stand for it?
Talk about idiotic! You wrote the book!
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it's evident the name 'soft' in your name comes directly from your 'soft' skull which obviously resulted in a great deal of brain damage. It's ok, we appreciate the effort.
You have been stumping for days that Dungy and the Colts would have to go for the undefeated record...if *you* don't believe it, then why are your running your immature little mouth about it? How stupid are you that you argue one side of a debate, but now you're saying you don't stand for it?
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First of all, I posted to this thread last night which does not make it even 1 DAY. Again, for the umteenth time you are FABRICATING to make your "point"
I believe that the Colts will indeed go for the undefeated season if they reach 14-0. THIS IS NOT WHAT I WANT, It is what I THINK will most logically HAPPEN. With Tony Dungy at the helm. AS Stevek pointed out, with a FIRST ROUND BYE, the Colts will have TWO WEEKS off anyway. UNLESS there are serious injuries to starters, THEY WILL PLAY AND PLAY TO WIN.
This has NOTHING to do with me thinking I am owed a perfect season or any other OUTLANDISH crap that forms in your hollow head. Sinking in yet Ax?
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<< <i> blah blah blah >>
Were you saying something you buffoon?
<< <i>dungy already stated in a interview with SI that he would not play his starters if they locked up home field advantage. Look it for it in the new SI this month or week >>
softie-
go put that in your pipe and smoke it, MORON.
softie-
go put that in your pipe and smoke it, MORON.
yep, idiots like yourself AX, will take a MAGAZINE article quote from a coach and run with it.
Can't more naive then that. Sure, a NFL head coach is going to spell out his plans to a huge media outlet
IDIOT
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your brain cannot possibly fuction at a lower level, can it?
You honestly think he'd bow to the pressure from the media and general public and possibly hurt his super bowl chances? If so, you're a bigger idiot than I thought (and I already think you're an incredibly big idiot to begin with, so it's saying a lot).
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your brain cannot possibly fuction at a lower level, can it?
You honestly think he'd bow to the pressure from the media and general public and possibly hurt his super bowl chances? If so, you're a bigger idiot than I thought (and I already think you're an incredibly big idiot to begin with, so it's saying a lot). >>
You live in a place without mirrors don't you fool ....
Hey Ax, I see you have the "MASTER COLLECTOR" tag under your icon. Being that you post at least 80-90% of your nonsense in this "sports talk" forum I would bet that MASTERBATER is more appropriate.... not that there is anything wrong with that
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And I see yet another poll put up by you in my honor.
You sure are a one trick pony, ya know that?
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Winning the final five games -- three of which are against teams that almost certainly will qualify for the postseason, including a game at Seattle, which owns the NFC's best record -- likely will be a daunting task. But the lopsided manner in which the Colts dispatched the Steelers, a team that in 2004 halted long winning streaks by New England and Philadelphia in consecutive weeks, ratcheted up expectations to a new level.
At the Steak and Shake restaurant only a few blocks from the RCA Dome, at about 3 a.m. Tuesday, three large groups of Colts fans leaned over booths to debate the possibilities of an undefeated season. Between bites of onion rings and sips from thick milk shakes, the sentiment was decidedly one-sided, that this is a special team, perhaps one for the ages, and one destined not only to claim the first Super Bowl title since the Colts relocated here in 1984, but to do so in historic fashion.
In pursuit of an even higher level of perfection than was achieved by the Miami Dolphins of 1972, who played a 14-game regular season and won three postseason contests (the Colts would be 19-0, by comparison, if they won out), Indianapolis players have been as tunnel-visioned as is humanly possible. This is a team that, when it comes to the biggest "un-word," undefeated, has personified another one, unfazed in dealing with the mounting pressures
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Going perfect in the regular season in my book is as big a honor as winning the super bowl. Can you name the last ten super bowl champs? Probably you have to think about it... who's the last undefeated team? Everyone knows that.
That said I imagine they'll get knocked off before it even comes to making the decision of whether not to play the starters.
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At the Steak and Shake restaurant only a few blocks from the RCA Dome, at about 3 a.m. Tuesday, three large groups of Colts fans leaned over booths to debate the possibilities of an undefeated season. >>
Ok if you are up at 3 am with a bunch of dorks debating the merits of a perfect season, you need to have your head examined.
Softie, it's good you spent the better part of today scrambling for a story to make everyone think YOU have the angles covered, and trying to prove me wrong.
It's pathetic, sir, that you thnk Dungy and Co. would risk any of his star players in the regular season any more than he needs to.
Good night, softie. Hope your mommy tucked you in tight tonight.
edit: just noticed, how sad is it, you are picking over articles at past 1 in the morning trying to 'win' this debate? Get a life.
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Softie, it's good you spent the better part of today scrambling for a story to make everyone think YOU have the angles covered, and trying to prove me wrong.
It's pathetic, sir, that you thnk Dungy and Co. would risk any of his star players in the regular season any more than he needs to.
Good night, softie. Hope your mommy tucked you in tight tonight.
edit: just noticed, how sad is it, you are picking over articles at past 1 in the morning trying to 'win' this debate? Get a life. >>
Ahhh the mom jokes. Ax, thats about the 10th time you resorted to this because your DUMB mind can't function any other way. Glad I happened upon this board to slap you around like a RAG DOLL ...... what a fool
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I guess you were one of those dorks up until 3 am debating the merits of whether or not the Colts owe the fans a run at an undefeated season?
You've slapped me around?
So let me get this right. Dungy is quoted (through SI) as saying that if they are undefeated in week 14, and they have locked up homefield throughout the playoffs, that he won't play his starters full time. BUT you'd rather take the words of some drunks hanging out gorging themselves on beef and shakes at 3 am talking football?
And you call *me* the idiot?
Go get your brain examined...it's obvious you are the one suffering from severe head trauma.
This isn't about what Tony Dungy says, it is about what Jim Irsay wants. Irsay is going to want an undefeated season. If it's "there for the taking" I believe Irsay is going to privately tell Tony Dungy to do whatever it takes to win those games even if the Colts wrap up home field advantage. As has been pointed out and of course you know, the Colts will get a nice rest with a bye after the 16th game leading into the first playoff game.
Watch and learn Axtell - Tony Dungy will come up with some excuse to play the starters in those "meaningless" games. Dungy will say something such as, "I want to keep the starting players sharp" but for sure he will take the starters out of the game probably sooner than normal if the game is becoming a blowout for the Colts. Say if the Colts are up 28 - 0 at halftime, normally Manning would stay in starting the second half, but Dungy in this case would take him out. Watch and learn Axtell.
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Watch and learn Axtell - Tony Dungy will come up with some excuse to play the starters in those "meaningless" games. Dungy will say something such as, "I want to keep the starting players sharp" but for sure he will take the starters out of the game probably sooner than normal if the game is becoming a blowout for the Colts. Say if the Colts are up 28 - 0 at halftime, normally Manning would stay in starting the second half, but Dungy in this case would take him out. Watch and learn Axtell. >>
I've said ALL along that Dungy would treat them as preseason games...play the starters, but not for the whole game.
The owner of these teams are incredibly wealthy, smart businessmen who know the super bowl is the grand prize, NOT an undefeated season. If they go 14-2 or 16-0 and either one gets you homefield throughout, then you know anyone with a vested interest in the team will have the starters not playing a full game.
Watch and learn? What exactly am I supposed to be watching and learning here? Everyone is speaking on theory and hypothesis; tell me what is to be gained by going 16-0 but losing Peyton to a season ending injury in week 16 because they were going for the undefeated season?
"Watch and learn" - in this case just havin' a little fun busting your chops a little bit because of course you are right about this being hypothesis. Going undefeated is a"special thing" though which I think Jim Irsay would love to do. And for sure, if an owner tells a coach to do something like this...the coach is most probably gonna do it. Maybe Parcells wouldn't do it, but Tony Dungy and most coaches would do it and that's no insult to Tony Dungy. But we'll see how it all plays out...perhaps the Colts get a loss before they clinch home field advantage and this all wouldn't matter.
I still think the Colts won't go undefeated anyway. The Dolphins of course did it in a 14 game season and look how hard that was - doing 16 undefeated games is just so tough.
If I'm not mistaken, the Dolphins played one of the easiest schedules EVER that season.
<< <i>san diego will beat them. >>
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nah, Dungy will start them all, unless injured AND play to win. Since you are incredibly stupid Axtell, I will SAY AGAIN. What is BEST for the Colts will not happen if they enter the last couple of weeks at 14-0. It will be the NATION that will want to see the Colts go 16-0. Do you read backwards dingbat?
Did I not tell you to unplug your computer WEEKS ago? >>
What were you saying, softie?
MORON!
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nah, Dungy will start them all, unless injured AND play to win. Since you are incredibly stupid Axtell, I will SAY AGAIN. What is BEST for the Colts will not happen if they enter the last couple of weeks at 14-0. It will be the NATION that will want to see the Colts go 16-0. Do you read backwards dingbat?
Did I not tell you to unplug your computer WEEKS ago? >>
What were you saying, softie?
MORON! >>
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You go from saying definitive things to saying 'oh that's not MY opinion, I'm just saying what I think will happen'. You flip flop more often than Bush!
Now go away and let the grown ups talk sports...those who have an opinion and stick with it, instead of oscillating back and forth.
Your moronic ramblings just paint you more and more to be the board idiot you are.
<< <i>Definatley one of those rare instances where what is good for the team will not happen.
Dungy will start them all, unless injured AND play to win. Since you are incredibly stupid Axtell, I will SAY AGAIN. What is BEST for the Colts will not happen.
<< even if the Colts gain home field advantage during the playoffs before the regular season ends. He will not rest his starters - he'll figure the players will have the bye-week to rest. >>
This is exactly how I see this playing out if the Colts are sitting at 14-0. No way Dungy is dumb enough to play his healthy starters for a few series a game and THEN have a week off too. No way ...
It has everything to do with what PROBABLY will happen, REGARDLESS of what I think.
THIS IS NOT WHAT I WANT, It is what I THINK will most logically HAPPEN. With Tony Dungy at the helm. AS Stevek pointed out, with a FIRST ROUND BYE, the Colts will have TWO WEEKS off anyway. UNLESS there are serious injuries to starters, THEY WILL PLAY AND PLAY TO WIN.
Like I said so many times before, it would be BEST for the Colts to lose one BEFORE they go 14-0 >>
Really? where did you say that? You NEVER said that. Liar!
You, sir, have no coherent line of reasoning...you change your story from post to post, then go completely different and say you SAID it'd be best if they lost a game before they go 14-0? Really?
Don't go away mad cause you got b**** smacked, just go away!
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