Colts not playing to win.

[DJD]

No doubt it's a no win deal for the coach and his staff....but I would have gone for the win.
Now on the opposite side didn't New England play hard to win every game a few years back only to get beat in the Super Bowl plus lose the undefeated season? We will see this if this approach works for the colts. Good luck to them!

[mhall]

This may very well come back to bite them in the butt. Especially if they pull this same crap at Buffalo. Resting players is all fine and good until you loose your edge and then you get your rears handed to you on a plate.

This was a bad coaching move in my humble opinion, it's gonna backfire watch and see.

[Hlleonard]

[QUOTE=mhall;394229]This may very well come back to bite them in the butt. Especially if they pull this same crap at Buffalo. Resting players is all fine and good until you loose your edge and then you get your rears handed to you on a plate.

This was a bad coaching move in my humble opinion, it's gonna backfire watch and see.

I certainly hope you are right...my Bunglers need all the help they can get.. they have a tough time beating a good team so a little help would be appreciated...lol..now if only the giants can win the nfc crown we might have a shot...

[mhall]

Man the Giants looked like a High School team last Sunday, that was bad..............

[psprowler]

No doubt it's a no win deal for the coach and his staff....but I would have gone for the win.
Now on the opposite side didn't New England play hard to win every game a few years back only to get beat in the Super Bowl plus lose the undefeated season? We will see this if this approach works for the colts. Good luck to them!

They did play hard to win every game and if you remember, one of the last regular season games was against those same giants, and they only beat them 35-31 or something close like that. So when the Giants turned around and beat them in the super bowl it wasn't that big of a surprise. I was jacked to see them go for it and I'm not much on the patriots.

[HURRICANEBOB]

I'm not really a fan of the NFL, so it doesn't make a big difference to me, but in my opinion it is just downright wrong not to play to win when you have a stadium full of fans that paid tons of money for their tickets.

I know it will be mentioned about not getting someone injured for the playoffs, etc., but that game was still in doubt.

If they had been down by 2 TDs (or up by 2 TDs), I could understand pulling the starters. Essentially, they forfeited the game. If they were going to do that, why didn't they do it before the game and save everyone some trouble?

And what will they do next week? If Peyton and the starters start that game, then the coach will look extremely hypocritical. If they don't start, then Peyton's consecutive streak will be broken.


I'll sum up my feelings as this: You play to win games. You owe that to your fans. If you're not going to try and win a game, then drop out of the league.

The second stringers did play to win. They just didn't do a very good job of it. You know, like the Bengals do when they have their first string in.

[Hlleonard]

The second stringers did play to win. They just didn't do a very good job of it. You know, like the Bengals do when they have their first string in.

Ouch...now that was mean...true...but mean.

[Hlleonard]

Shux....we might be able to beat the giants if we can catch them on a bad day...

What to do..What to do...this coming weekend is gona be bad for me...I like the Bengals and I like the Jets....Can't call me a fan because I don't go to any of the games...I don't think the Bengals have much to gain and the Jets have everything to lose...maybe I just need to wish for a good day and go fishing...

[HURRICANEBOB]

Ouch...now that was mean...true...but mean.

They hit my Colts first......make them stop......

Besides, if the Bengals were better than 10-5, the Colts 14-1 wouldn't look as good.


The Cincinnati Bengals were the only division champion with no Pro Bowl selection. They weren't even picked as second stringers....I rest my case.

[mhall]

They hit my Colts first......make them stop......

Besides, if the Bengals were better than 10-5, the Colts 14-1 wouldn't look as good.


The Cincinnati Bengals were the only division champion with no Pro Bowl selection. They weren't even picked as second stringers....I rest my case.

Yet they are still 10 and 5. They weren't suppose to be good, your Cadillac was, I rest my case.

Nobody wants to give Cinncy any credit for this year. It's a fluke, They can't do it again, The games have landed in their laps, I've heard them all. Maybe just maybe they won some of those from effort, decent players and good coaching, just a thought???

[Hlleonard]

Guys, remember the Bills of a few years ago......3 or 4 time superbowl losers.. they were a good football team..... but being the lucky teams that won the games was better than being the good team that lost.... would rather be a lucky lotto winner than a great pizza delivery man.. (puttin' safety glasses and hard hat on)

[RoadToad]

I'm glad they did it. They do it every year, and it usually doesn't work. Aside from their Super Bowl win in 2006, they generally haven't done well in the playoffs. Which to me is a good thing. I grew up rooting for the Baltimore Colts, and I was living in Baltimore when Irsay shipped them out in the middle of the night. Anything else I have to say about him would surely be deleted.