annafloor.blogg.se - Jaguars and colts score

Dating back to last season, Indianapolis has now forced a turnover in 11 consecutive games, which is tied for the longest active streak in the NFL. The Colts have won 11 games in a row against AFC South teams. With the Texans losing to the Bengals, the Colts retake a 2.5 game lead in the division. The second half was much better, and overall the Colts improve to 7-4. After a very sloppy first half, I'll take a 20-point win over the Jaguars.

When he scored, he celebrated with a tribute to his newborn daughter, born early this morning, by cradling the football like a baby. Hilton had a big day, including a 73-yard touchdown catch. He made all three of his attempts today, bringing him to a perfect 25-for-25 on the season. He needs to get better at that, but I do think he did some good things. The only negative was that he put the ball on the ground twice, losing one fumble.

Dan Herron looked good today and surprisingly saw quite a bit of action.

Donte Moncrief saw a lot of playing time today, and that's always a good thing.

Either way, he was very effective with his legs. He ran for 49 yards, but if the Colts hadn't kneeled the ball down to end the game he would have had a career high of 51 yards.

Andrew Luck had a great day rushing-wise.

His streak ends at eight, which is still very impressive and a franchise record but falls one shy of tying the NFL all-time record.

A streak came to an end today, as Andrew Luck's consecutive games with 300+-yards came to an end.

Big props to the Colts for realizing his record of 3+ catch games was in jeopardy and getting him two screens toward the end of it. He didn't look like Reggie Wayne, that's for sure. He just looks a step slower and today his timing with Andrew Luck was off - probably related to him looking slower. Quite simply, I think it was really clear already in his first game that it was a good move for the Colts. He had several nice punt returns and even broke one for an 82-yard touchdown, only to have it called back for a penalty that didn't really effect the return much. His first return came on the opening kickoff, when he took it deep in the end zone and had a 46-yard return. In his first game with the Colts, he looked good. This is now the second spot along the offensive line in which Shipley has outplayed the "starter." Just throwing that out there. Want to know who played some at right guard in his place? A.Q.

Actually, the line looked much better once Thornton was ruled out for the game with a knee injury.

Joe Reitz and Hugh Thornton, making up the right side of the line, looked terrible. It has been bad for the last three years, but this was arguably as bad as they've been.

The offensive line was terrible today in the first half.

It was a very impressive performance by the Colts defense, and I think regardless of the opponent it's very welcome after last week.

They pressured Blake Bortles and forced a couple of turnovers.

The only points they scored all day were when the Colts handed them the ball in the red zone and then held them to a field goal. In other words: the Colts' defense totally dominated the Jaguars' offense. That's what we've seen so far, and it continued today. It pretty much continues the trend we've seen so far this season that the Colts' defense plays well against the lesser teams while they don't against the top teams. Here's the deal: I'll talk about how impressive they were today, but we do have to keep in mind that it was just against the Jaguars. The defense looked good - but yes, it was against the Jaguars.The second half, however, was much more like it, and the Colts ended up winning pretty comfortably over the division rival Jaguars by the score of 23-3. They couldn't protect Andrew Luck, they couldn't protect the football, and they didn't look good at all. It was an ugly, slow start for the Colts - about as bad as the offense could play.