INDIANAPOLIS -- The Colts were in significant trouble.
But a team that has seven fourth-quarter comebacks on its 2009 résumé isn’t going to fold it up at halftime and make non-football plans for the next two weeks.
And there is the matter of that 2-minute drill capacity of theirs.
As out of sync as the Colts were, it takes little time for them to snap to life. They needed all of four plays and 58 seconds, with two perfect Peyton Manning passes among the four he threw, to close a 17-6 game to 17-13. Austin Collie was exceptional for him.
The state of Indiana was ready to panic. It now believes the Colts withstood the Jets’ best and trail by a manageable four points.
Win or lose, the odd call in the second quarter where Manning hurriedly tried to sneak in from the 1-yard line will be a big topic after the game. Hard to figure that one out. And on fourth down from that close, field goals may not be the way to go.
That could all be moot by the time we’re finished here.
It’s the Jets' move, it feels like to me.
Can they get the Colts out of sync again?
