Re: Playoff predictions
I understand that our 4 game winning streak doesn't look very good but the point I was making was that the Chargers are matched up well against the Colts no matter what our record is compared to theirs. Remember the year when the Colts were looking to go 16-0 and the Chargers stopped them at 13-0? The Chargers that year were 9-7 and yet they beat the Colts at their strongest. Then last year we beat them twice(regular season game and divisional playoff game). This year, they barely beat us, 23-20 and our defense was much worse at that time and our running game was non-existent, whereas now our running game is back and our defense is much improved with the coordinator change. So, out of the last 4 times we've played them, they've only won once. What makes you think that they are going to beat the Chargers?
First let me state that your whole reasoning is fallacious. The past doesn't dictate what's going to happen in the future. Pulling out past games tells us nothing about Saturdays game.
In the one lost you make excuses for why your team lost, yet you don't count the reasons why the Colts may have lost to the Chargers. I'm not one to make excuses but since you are let's point out in 2005 when we were 13-0 we weren't at our strongest, Corey Simon sat out the game, Freeney played but he was hobbled, Dungy put a dark cloud over the team so to speak by constantly saying to the media "our goal is to win the SB not go undefeated."
In the regular season game last year special teams scored most if not all of the points, Rivers single handedly almost blew a 20+ point lead, AV bailed you guys out by missing an easy FG in a game which Manning had no receiver to throw to but Wayne, everyone else was out (Gonzo, Marvin, Clark, etc) and he threw 6 INT's. That was a game in which if we lost one more offensive linemen we had no other linemen to put in his place a TE might have had to play guard or offensive tackle. Yet they still had a chance to win in the rain with a preseason team.
Then in the playoff game that was the first time since like week 4 all of our starters played in a game together, minus the injured Freeney. Mathis was coming off an injury he received late in the regular season he sat out the last few games. The pass rush was non-existent so Rivers and whoever the backup was had all day to throw which is bad news for any secondary. Harrison played like an old man coming off an injury, and Manning still threw for 402 yards in the game.
In the game this year you want to talk about how your defense was bad, but we had no running game whatsoever. We haven't had it all year. When you know a team has to pass that is the easiest game plan in history. The Chargers have just caught us at the the wrong times if you want to be honest.
I am not even saying the Colts will win or are a lock but I do like our chances and what happened in 05 and last year means nothing Saturday night.
