Archive for September, 2009

Quad Injury Has Freeney Availability In Limbo

An injured quadriceps muscle could very well keep Indianapolis Colts defensive end Dwight Freeney out for a bit, according to an ESPN report, with the initial prognosis being issued by an unnamed source. According to team spokesman Craig Kelley, the team would not provide a more detailed injury report on Freeney until Wednesday (today); Freeney’s [...]

Blowout in the Desert

The Colt defense that showed up to play on Sunday night looked much more like the one that opened the season, than the one that made the trip to Miami just a week ago. The Colts dominated the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball, and harassed Cardinal quarterback Kurt Warner all night [...]

Manning’s 3 Second Quarter TD Passes Help Colts Thrash Cardinals 31-10

Well, so much for the pre-game hype. Peyton Manning and Kurt Warner the focus of this much anticpated matchup between one of the better AFC teams in the Indianapolis Colts and the Super Bowl runner-up Arizona Cardinals. Unfortunately for the Cardinals faithful, Manning – as he tends to do with regularity – exploited the Cardinals’ [...]

Showdown in the Desert

Following an extremely improbable road victory in Miami just six days earlier, the Colts will try for a repeat on Sunday as they head to Arizona for a game against the defending NFC Champions. While temperatures are expected to exceed 100 degrees, the Cardinals are not expected to announce whether the stadium roof will be [...]

Brackett, Hayden Out vs. Cardinals

The Indianapolis Colts took a hit within their linebacking corps and secondary as it looks like linebacker Gary Brackett and cornerback Kelvin Hayden will not play in Sunday’s contest against the Arizona Cardinals. Brackett injured his knee in last Sunday’s win over the Miami Dolphins while Hayden injured his hamstring – also against Miami. Look [...]

Manning Selected NFL Athlete Of The Decade By Sporting News

I don’t know if there is an actual dictionary out there that defines what a “best NFL athlete” is; chances are there isn’t one. But nonetheless, The Sporting News has their own definition. And they used it to declare Indianapolis Colts quarterback as the publication’s NFL Athlete of the Decade. They chose him over fellow [...]

Tracking the Numbers

In the game of football, statistics are kept on just about anything you can possibly think of. Week in and week out, analyst will sit around and talk about the ODDs of a team doing this, or their chances of doing that, leaning heavily on these statistics for the formation of their opinions. It must [...]

Preview Of Week 3 vs. Cardinals

Below is the official press release from Colts.com: DATE: Sunday, September 27, 2009 SITE: University of Phoenix Stadium KICKOFF: 8:20 p.m. (EDT)/5:20 p.m. (MST) CAPACITY: 65,000 SURFACE: Grass Making a second consecutive road nationally-televised appearance early in the 2009 regular season, the Indianapolis Colts, 2-0, visit the Arizona Cardinals, 1-1, on Sunday, September 27. Kickoff [...]