PATRIOTSFANINPA

Do you respect them as thinking that they have worked hard the past few years and have kept the core of receivers and QB on hand and deserve to go to the Super Bowl if they hand us a defeat? or do you think they are just an overpaid group and don't deserve a chance to get to the SB Championship game no matter what happens on sunday.

Personally I think if they beat us,especially if they win easily sunday they deserve to go,They have been all but eliminated by the media before the playoffs began because of the 32nd ranked run defense which has turned around,If anytihng I think the defensive part of the team has definately earned the right to grab the brass ring if they hold us down - I don't think they will but if they do they willl have finally earned respect and no better way for the Colts to earn respect but to beat the team which has had their number in the playoffs.

I respect Bob Sanders the most on the Colts,That man can change a defense almost singlehanded and its ability to stop the run simply by being out there and stuffing the box - If he was still injured like he was most of the season I guarantee we would be playing the Ravens this sunday.


Like I said I think we continue our dominance of them on sunday but this is definately their best chance ever to win,especially at home and Peytons defining moment as QB to prove he is not just a stats specialist in the regular season and a playoff nightmare - This ought to be a classic..

PatsRI

respect? They are a "good" team and Manning is a good QB. That's the best I can say. I can also say I'd be rooting for either NFC team (hopefully NO) if the Pats lose.

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sbcpats70

I respect the Colts because they are always "there". However, I question their intelligence as an organization when, year after year, they continue to DUMP money on the offense while continuing to have a painfully mediocre defense. I'm not going to let the last 2 weeks' performance by the Colts' D affect my prediction for this game.

I say the Pats win BIG....by at least 10. There is no way BB is going to allow the Pats to be tied or up by only 3 come late 4th Quarter as I don't think there is ANYONE who would doubt that Adam WILL hit that kick.

PaulNEPats

The players? Most of them (I can't stand Peyton or Dallas Clark). The organization itself? Not with that scumbag Polian as President.

RayClay

I do respect their consistency and their recent grittier efforts.

Screw this if they win crap. It only makes me want to stomp them more to make sure they've stopped wiggling.

That's respect. It's them or us, and them just isn't a possibility I will accept.

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PatsRI

I forgot about Polian, that does downgrade my opinion alot.

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SamBam39

I disagree about this being their best chance.
I think last year was their best chance - the broncos had knocked the pats out and they were at home - but they had the steelers beat and coughed up the bit in crunch time!

GinoCappelletti

I definently respect the Colts. I think for the most part their players and coaches carry themselves with class, and they have been most consistantly good team over the last four years other than the Patriots of course. Peyton Manning is a great QB who I believe will eventually go to a Super Bowl (hopefully not this year). However I have no respect for the Colts upper management namely Bill Polian and the Irsay family. Polian is an arrogant jerk who whines about the officiating when the Colts lose (and even when they win apparently.) He displays no class in winning or losing ("Break his leg!"), and if I have to see that guy hoist the Lamar Hunt Trophy on sunday I will be sick to my stomach. As for the Irsays, their family abandoned one of the best football fan bases in the country in the middle of the night, an unforgivable act by my estimation. So there it is. I respect the Colts players as well as TOny Dungy and his coaching staff but their upper management I have no respect for.

SamBam39

I disagree.

I think one of the more delicious scenarios involves the game coming down to the final seconds and the colts having to hit a long difficult field goal to tie,
just like it happened in san diego, and having vinatieri think about the ironic pressure involved and missing the kick! - it totally could happen - he's only missed 3 kicks all year and 2 of them were against the pats - there's defiantely emotion onvolved there.

just imagine the headlines - vinatieri wins another one in the final seconds for the pats!

PATSNUTme

I hate them but I respect them.

What football fan could not respect them? They are a good football team.