17 for 93 against DEN. 5.5AVG
Their defense is perty good if you ask me. Kids a part time player who's getting better as the season goes on. He would have cracked the 100 yard stat a good number of times if Rhodes stopped getting carries.
You can continue to dream if you'd like, though. Our rookie is better than yours.
He definitely was for one Sunday, which is what's important, evidently. But you know you wanted Maroney, and so did Shanny. Face it.
As for who matches up well against whom... I'm with those who would relish a Bolts/Colts game along the way, just to watch the laugh riot as the Colts' keystone kops rush D attempts to deal with LT.
What would be even more fun is watching the Colts stack the box, so LT can
throw TDs against them... has anyone ever scored 2 receiving, 2 passing, and 2 running? This matchup holds out hope for such an outcome.
The Pats are in a good place right now, given the last couple of games, bouncing back from the scandalous 2-loss-in-a-row trough... but I currently don't put them above the Chargers, or -- surprise, surprise -- the Colts. I think it'll be a judgment you need to make after the game (against the Colts,) since they won the first. Whatever we like to say around here, Manning is a special QB, and will end up with a ring one day. Just not a day the Pats are still in it, please.
BUT- a Colts/Bolts game would be a circus of scoring, and I think it would end up with SD on top.
PS - in the usual rock-paper-scissors fashion, I think the Pats know how to eliminate a weapon of LT's nature, the one guy you remove and collapse an attack. So I like the Pats in a Pats/Bolts game.
The Rams had Warner, Holt, Bruce, yadda yadda yadda, but Belichick realized you could take away Faulk and it fell apart. I think much the same pertains to Rivers and Gates when you take away (or even significantly contain) LT. But that's hard for even a good D to do, and Indy's not up to the task.
PFnV