The Indianapolis Colts appear to be adverse making the playoffs.
With their 45-33 loss to the New York Giants on Sunday, they were formally removed from playoff contention for the 4th season in a row. In 3 of those seasons the Colts have actually suffered terrible, awkward losses in must-win video games.
It has actually been such a bad run that Sunday’s loss to a formerly 2-13 Giants group may not even be the worst of them all.
A fast rundown of the current history for the Colts in these must-win video games:
— In 2021 they got in Week 18 of the season just requiring to beat the 2-14 Jacksonville Jaguars to clinch a playoff berth. They wound up losing 26-11 (after falling back 26-3) and missed out on the playoffs.
— In 2023 they went into Week 18 requiring a win over the Houston Texans to make the playoffs and win the AFC South. They lost when running back Tyler Goodson dropped a broad open hand down a fourth-and-one that might have kept a prospective game-winning drive going.
There was Sunday versus the Giants.
The Colts still required some assistance to get in the playoffs even with a win this time around, however a win was an outright should to keep their opportunities alive. They not just stopped working to get it, they were embarrassed.
The 2-13 Giants got in the video game without having actually won a single video game in your home all season. They had actually lost 10 video games in a row. They had actually not scored more than 22 points in any of those video games, and just when scored more than 20 points. They were beginning Drew Lock after he got in the season as their third-string quarterback.
You dislike to state that any video game in the NFL ought to be a presumed win, however this ought to have been as near to one as you might get for the Colts.
Yes, the Colts were likewise having fun with a backup quarterback, as Joe Flacco began in location of the hurt Anthony Richardson, however there is most likely an argument to be made that Flacco is a much better quarterback at this phase of both gamer’s professions. The Colts likewise scored 33 points.
For them, they permitted 45 points with Lock accounting for 5 goals (4 death and one hurrying) and publishing a 155.3 passer score in what may have been the finest video game of his profession.
In regards to worst losses, the 2021 video game in Jacksonville is still the most embarrassing since that was a win-and-in video game. The 2023 video game in Houston protested an excellent group that was most likely a coin-flip entering. The loss hurt, specifically with the essential drop, however there was no embarassment in the defeat. The most current disappointment most likely sandwiches in the middle of the 3.
Integrated with the video game in Denver 2 weeks ago that swung when running back Jonathan Taylor too soon faltered at the objective line commemorating a sure goal,
