So are the reigning Super Bowl Champions going to repeat in 2007?
I’d have to say that in both my sports betting opinion and sports fan opinion, the answer is a resounding…NO!
If you look around our site enough you’ll see that Madison is no fan of Peyton’s brother Eli (if our tagging system ever gets fixed, there’s even a tag for “Eli Manning Sucks” — Editor) and I’m here to tell you I’m one of the few people on the NFL planet that isn’t a fan of Peyton. Maybe it’s his herky-jerky throwing motion or the way he pouts like a 5-year-old child when things aren’t going his way.
The irony with Peyton is that he looks so much smoother acting on SNL and in commercials than he does throwing a football. I like big game winners at the QB position and even though he finally got that monkey off his back last year, it just didn’t look quite right.
I mean come on! The Ravens never play that bad at home and the Patriots never give up leads like they did in the second half of that Championship Game. It just looked like the towel boy had dropped some acid in the Gatorade buckets of both those teams.
All that being said the Colts will continue to score a bunch on offense this season despite losing Dominic Rhodes and Brandon Stokely. I like what I see so far out of Anthony Gonzalez (WR) from Ohio State. He’s going to fit in very well with this offense. The rest of the offense is starting to get up there a little in age so we’ll see if there are some nagging injuries that finally bite this club on this side of the ball.
Defense is where all the problems start. I know a bunch of you are yelling right now, “Our defense was superb during the playoffs last year.” Yeah it was and it was an aberration. Gone are (LB) Cato June, (CB) Nick Harper, (S) Mike Doss, and (DT) Anthony McFarland. All four were major contributors to that defense of a year ago.
Do you really think with all the talent in the AFC this year that the Colts are going to be able to survive with a defense that gives up points as quickly as Lindsay Lohan goes down on a line of coke?
The Colts have had their run for the last 4 years. Unfortunately for you Colts fans you were only able to get one trophy out of it. 2007 will be fun for a while but don’t expect a return to glory come February.
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