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The good news is that ugly wins don’t measure differently in the standings.

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The good news is that ugly wins don’t measure differently in the standings.

That’s good Darius Leonard Color Rush Jersey , because the Colts could hardly have won an uglier game than the one they played on Sunday, but win they did. At the end of the season what will matter is that they scraped out a tough win when they needed to. Getting there was a different thing entirely. Let’s take a look a bit closer and see who the winners were in this contest.WinnersJack DoyleWhen you throw the ball for just 202 yards, it obviously wasn’t a great day through the air. Jack Doyle’s 4 catches for 61 yards were more than a quarter of that production, and 2 of those catches came on 3rd downs and moved the sticks. While the receivers as a whole struggled to make a real impact on this game, Doyle came up big when he was needed. In keeping with the day at large, his game was far from perfect. He drew a holding penalty, and also fumbled the ball after a catch, but was saved when it bounced out of bounds before Denver could recover it. Thomas J. Russo-USA TODAY SportsJacoby BrissettI’ve heard people argue that Jacoby Brissett had a bad game Sunday, and that just doesn’t reflect what I saw. Was he great? No. There wasn’t much that was great on Sunday. Brissett was hit 7 times and sacked 4. He was under consistent pressure from a good Broncos unit, and struggled reading a complex and talented defensive game called by Vic Fangio.Brissett continues to show himself to be cool under pressure, evading pass rushers and scrambling for yards when the play dictates it. He isn’t a run threat in the traditional sense, but his ability to pick up good yardage when defenses give it changes how teams have to play him, and he did it to the tune of 34 yards Sunday. Like Doyle, Brissett’s game was not without struggles. He fumbled the ball on a play where he held it entirely too long and took a sack. Those turnovers catch up to you, and they simply cannot happen. The Colts are just not good enough to give away the ball and consistently win. The mark of a great quarterback is how they play in crunch time. When the game is on the line and you need a score, what do they do? With 1:48 left in the game and down by 1 point, the Colts got the ball back on their own 11. With Von Miller bearing down on him, Jacoby did what they needed him to, and what many have questioned his ability to do: He evaded the pressure and made a pinpoint strike 35 yards downfield to T.Y. Hilton. It was an incredible play, and began the drive that would end with an Adam Vinatieri field goal for the lead. As much as there can be a winner in such an ugly game https://www.coltsfanshop.com/Denzelle-Good-Jersey , Brissett showed he was one when the chips were down, despite struggles to be effective at various points in this game. Thomas J. Russo-USA TODAY SportsBen BanoguWhen Kemoko Turay went down, the hope was that rookie Ben Banogu could step up and fill in some of his production. He may not approach what Turay could have done if healthy, but he certainly had a good game considering that he was in on just barely more than half the snaps Sunday. In that time, he had a pass batted down at the line of scrimmage and a sack-fumble to close out the game at the end. If they can get similar production out of him every week, they’ll feel really good about his rookie season.Adam VinatieriThis one is complicated. I am in no way ready to let Vinny off the hook here. He missed a field goal and an extra point in this game, and that has to be addressed. I don’t care what the coaching staff says, his inconsistent kicking is a problem that they can’t just pretend isn’t happening. Having said all that, he was good from 45, 51, and 55 yards out, with the game winning kick coming from 51 yards out. There are still questions to be answered. We don’t know all the circumstances or struggles here, but ultimately Vinatieri was able to kick himself out of the hole he created, and the Colts won the game because of him. For this week, and under the circumstances of this game, that makes him a winner.LosersOffensive lineThis was perhaps the worst game this offensive line has had as a unit in its current iteration. They clearly struggled with the stunts and loops from the Broncos defense, and were wildly inconsistent. On one down they obliterated the defense and left a four-lane highway for Marlon Mack to run through. At other times they got no push and allowed easy penetration into the backfield. There was uncharacteristic pressure on the interior as Quenton Nelson, Ryan Kelly, and Mark Glowinski all struggled to deal with pressure and hand off defenders effectively. This resulted in Brissett scrambling quite a bit and buying more time in the passing game. The players said the defense showed a lot of “unscouted looks” that had them confused at times, which likely played a role in their struggles. Ultimately Clayton Geathers Jersey , I expect this unit to recover. This was a very good defense and a very good defensive coach they faced. Hopefully they will learn and grow from this into a better group. Rock Ya-SinThis was a brutal game from the rookie. His penalties kept countless drives alive, and while some of those penalties were very suspect, many of them were not. Ya-Sin is a physical player, and that will always lend itself to more penalties. However, it became clear that the Broncos were going to pick on Ya-Sin as he struggled to deal with Courtland Sutton in this game. Ya-Sin’s primary issues have been in terms of locating the ball once it is in the air. He is rarely far from his man, sticking closely to receivers and disrupting them at the line of scrimmage. Once the ball is in the air, though, he just isn’t making plays on it. That is an area of his game that he needs to grow a great deal in.It is important to remember that this position is incredibly tough to learn, and this is a second round pick who is a full blown starter at the cornerback position. In the absence of Pierre Desir, he had the unenviable task of taking on a very good receiver. The ceiling is high for Ya-Sin, but we knew going into this year there would be some lumps he’d likely take. This week he took a lot of them. Wide Receiver roomThe wide receivers for the Colts on Sunday were largely a non-factor. Zach Pascal, Chester Rogers, and Parris Campbell combined to go 2 of 5 for 13 yards. T.Y. Hilton wasn’t much better, with just 2 catches on the day, although one of them was Brissett’s brilliant 35-yard laser that Hilton toe-dragged out at the sideline.There were various reasons that may have contributed to the struggles of the group. Pressure on Brissett certainly impacted where he could go with the ball. Ultimately, without the All-22 it’s tough to know how effectively the receivers were winning their individual match-ups, but what is not tough to tell is how that impacted the game. The Colts couldn’t move the ball through the air well, and it was clear that when facing a good secondary, this is still not a receiver room that can be counted on to produce. The OfficialsI am thinking about just copying and pasting this section every week from here on out. They were awful, as usual. All game long Nate Hairston Color Rush Jersey , the calls were inconsistent and perplexing. The only call they got right was when they correctly overturned the challenged no-call of a game-changing pass interference committed against T.Y. Hilton. So I guess give them credit for that. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Andrew Luck has done some of his most memorable work rallying the Indianapolis Colts.He’d rather spend the time protecting leads.Lately, the Colts’ have allowed Luck to use his preferred strategy by scoring early and often before relying on a balanced attack and an increasingly stout defense to close out victories. It’s happened each of the past two weeks in crucial games, putting Indy on the cusp of a historic milestone.“I think it’s discipline, sound fundamentals, sound technique, it’s converting third downs. It’s all of those things,” Luck said Tuesday as the Colts try to become the first team to reach a conference championship game after starting 1-5. “It’s nice to be playing with a lead, especially on the road.”In previous seasons, slow starts forced Luck & Co. to climb out of some huge holes.Sure, Luck thrived in those situations, engineering 21 game-winning drives in the fourth quarter or overtime during his first five pro seasons, including a league-record seven in 2012 and the second-largest playoff comeback in January 2014 against the Kanas City Chiefs. He added three more comeback wins this season, all since late October, with the most recent coming Dec. 23 against the New York Giants.But as the playoff picture came into focus, Luck didn’t need a series of fantastic finishes.Instead, during their current five-game winning streak, the Colts (11-6) have trailed in only two games and have not faced a deficit larger than 10. Indy led wire-to-wire in three of its last four victories and hasn’t trailed since scoring the go-ahead touchdown in the final minute of the Giants’ game in Week 16.The formula could prove particularly useful at Kansas City in Saturday’s divisional round game.“When you get the lead, you can dictate how the game goes,” said kicker Adam Vinatieri, who owns four Super Bowl rings and is expected to appear in his 32nd postseason game. “By taking the lead https://www.coltsfanshop.com/Braden-Smith-Jersey , you get to manage the game and that’s one of the things I’m really impressed with is how well the defense has played the last couple of weeks.”This will be a different kind of test.The AFC West champion Chiefs (12-4) return from a bye week as the conference’s top seed, with the league’s highest scoring offense (35.3 points) and a lot to prove in a lopsided postseason series.Kansas City is 0-4 all-time against Indy in the playoffs, having lost at home following the 1995 season after securing he No. 1 seed and again in 2003, in a game that featured no punts. The Chiefs also lost in Indy following the 2006 season when Larry Johnson, the league’s No. 2 rusher, gained just 32 yards, and again in January 2014 when Luck rallied the Colts from a 38-10 deficit in the third quarter for a 45-44 victory falling just short of the record 32-point comeback orchestrated by Colts coach Frank Reich in January 1993.This time, Kansas City is back on its home turf and trying to create some new memories.“I’ll tell you that we are going through the process and getting ready to play a great football team,” coach Andy Reid said. “So we know that and that’s where absolutely all my energy is going.”But what the Chiefs have seen on film is the hottest team in football.Running back Marlon Mack has five 100-yard games this season, including each of the past two weeks, receiver T.Y. Hilton and tight end Eric Ebron continue to make big plays down the field, the offensive line hasn’t given up a sack in two weeks and Luck appears to be in perfect sync.The combination has led Indy to wins in 10 of its last 11 games, with the last two coming in elimination games on the road.But after taking a 14-0 lead in a Week 17 playoff-clinching victory at Tennessee and a 21-0 lead at Houston in last week’s wild-card victory, the Titans and Texans never had a chance — and the Colts would like to keep it that way one more week.“We’re trying to score every time we touch the ball. We’re going to call the game in a way that we can score points,” Reich said. “We want to run it, that’s no secret, that keeps them off the field, but the bottom line is we’ve got to score points.”

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