Yes, it was there the Colts won their last Super Bowl, and it is there they will be favored to win Super Bowl XLIV for one very basic reason — BECAUSE THEY’RE BETTER THAN EVERYONE ELSE.
The only games the Colts lost this season were games they chose to throw back. The Jets? They didn’t beat them in late December. The Colts lost. Buffalo? The Bills didn’t beat them, either. The Colts lost. So the Colts haven’t lost to anyone when they put their starters out there, and they ran that string to 16 straight with their last victory.
So they had to come from behind again. That is the hallmark of this club. It produced seven fourth-quarter comeback wins this season, and it waited until the third quarter to go ahead of the Jets. People can talk about how Manning figured out the Jets defense and what happened to New York’s overmatched secondary and how life might have been different if Shonn Greene hadn’t bowed out at halftime, but let’s face facts, people: The Colts won because they were the superior team.
Period.
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