Colts Nation and Colts fans across the world were very impressed with their new QB last Sunday. Obviously, we all know by now of his impressive preseason debut. I was in attendance for Andrew Luck’s very first snap, which resulted in a 63 yard touchdown pass to Donald Brown.
The energy in that stadium was crazy. For the first two quarters of that football game it felt like a regular season game, or even a playoff game. Every fan in that stadium was on their feet after Donald Brown scampered 63 yards to the freshly blue painted Colts endzone. Colts Nation didn’t care if the game was only “preseason.” All that mattered in every fans head last Sunday was that our team, the Indianapolis Colts, were playing well.
The NFL has long been about business. In recent years, it is more about business than it is about football and definitely more about business than it is about the fans. Steeler fans are probably about to find that out.
This weekend will bring a lot of decisions for the teams heading into the post season. Teams with nothing to gain by winning will be faced with deciding how much time if any their starters will see on the field.
The NFL season continues its inexorable march to the post season and the AFC North appears to be going down to the wire.
By my take, there are only 3 games on tomorrow’s NFL schedule that are toss ups in the who’s going to win category. The rest of the matchups look pretty cut and dried on who to pick, but that could be totally off the mark given this NFL season so far.
A few teams in the NFL this season are getting far more favorable coverage than they probably deserve. While their records may be better than some other teams and in some cases better than a lot of other teams, it doesn’t really mean they are that great of a team. Most have a lot of issues they need to work on and some may not end up anywhere near the post season. Yes, these teams records are their records but this is not about wins and losses, this is about cores. Are these really good teams or are their inflated records clouding the issue.
After the NFL preseason, there are some teams that you can probably say are good bets going forward into week 1 of the NFL season. While the starters didn’t see a great deal of time in the preseason, there was enough to see who has the upper hand in the NFL going forward. Here are my top 5 NFL teams to start the season (in no particular order):
After the 2nd week of NFL preseason games start last night, there is one thing that is true. The Steelers and Patriots are very good teams. That is a fact and so far in this short NFL preseason, they may be the two strongest teams coming out of the block.