NFL 11 Week 7 synopsis

I worked 70+ hours this past week, so the only thing somewhat like football that I watched was the Colts-Saints game this week. Or should I say the Saints-Madden game.

Have you ever played the Madden football games? A good stress reliever is to put it on the easiest difficulty and destroy another team. (My record is 216 points. Ironically, it was against the Saints). That's kinda what this game looked like. You know its bad when a team pulls their starters and still runs up the score. You know its worse when the losing team pulls their starters because the game is that bad.

The game started with Curtis Painter underthrowing an open Pierre Garcon. That was the best play he made all night. Two plays later, when the ball was snapped, it hit Painter in facemask because he wasn't ready, and bounced over to the Saints. Shortly after that, the Colts lost 62-7, the worst loss in franchise history, and the worst for any team since the NFL-AFL merger.

If you go on twitter, there's all these comments about how Peyton Manning doesn't play defense, or that he should win the MVP award because how bad the Colts are without him. Yes, he is one of the best in history, but we've also lost our second string QB, a wide reciever, left tackle (very important position. Just watch the movie "The Blind Side"), and Addai has been hurt much of the season. Plus half our defensive starters are hurt, mostly in the secondary (the guys responsible for stopping the pass). And our defense just looks tired because we can't keep drives going for the other team. And another thing: most people don't realize that offense if intellectual and defense is emotional. And our defense is just tapped out.

Speculation is running wild that Jim Irsay will do something crazy like trade Manning (really? Are you dumb?) or fire Jim Caldwell. Emotional decisions are always the wrong ones. Don't do it Jim.

And yes, I sent tweets to both the Colts page and Jim Irsay. They are encouraging by design. Why? Because until some other fans (Philly comes to mind) we don't hate and abuse our team. We love them, no matter what. And if this gives us a chance to throw off nine years of fair weather fans and prove our loyalty, so be it.






Oh, and just so others don't miss out on tradition, Tom Brady is a chump. There, I said it. Want proof? When the Pats blew out a team like this, they kept in their starters. At least the Saints let their second string score on the Colts. (sigh...)