After Pace blew up the running play and we recovered the fumble, I honestly thought we had this game in the bag -- and I NEVER think that with the Jets. So what happened? Peyton marched down the field in about 55 seconds and led the Colts. Was that the proverbial 'beginning of the end'? Sure, Greene got injured; but do you really think that that would've affected Manning's performance against our D? What exactly happened from when we were up 17-6 to............?
Strickland got hurt. Lowery had to cover Garcon and Sheppard Collie....... then the cherry on top, Greene got hurt. The Colts were the better team today.
^^and^ is what I'm getting at. Is Manning that good that, no matter what, he's just unstoppable this year? Because with that kind of lead - with this D - we should have been able to take control. But in a matter of 55 seconds, the game changed.
We also ran 3 straight times with THOMAS JONES after that fumble. We should've went for the kill. It's a totally different game at 21-6 going into half time. Instead we didn't get 1st down and gave him the ball back. The key to the game was giving him the ball back in that situation. Even if we had just got a 1st down there! Ahhh! I hate looking back at games and thinking "If we just did this one thing" ahhhhhhhh
Peyton Manning is unstoppable. That's just the way it is. There is nothing stopping that dude. No QB has given us the trouble that Manning gave us today. The guy is un-fuckin-believable
WE got conservative.... We had a chance to go for the Kill but were too scared that our Rook would make a game changing mistake.
Hate to say it, but when they went for the 52?yd field goal I said " THAT'S STUPID.....puunt the ball!" sure enough a miss, followed by a short field is all it took for a BIG momentum change.
I can't remember the down and yardage... Would it have been smarter to either punt or maybe even go for it instead of attempting the 52-yarder?
We lost Strickland and the pass D suffered. We lost Greene and our rushing suffered, so our entire offense suffered and we lost the ability to control the ball. Manning got more possessions, which he used to beat us. That's it. If Greene played the whole game, it would have been much closer, but I can't say without a doubt we would have won. I hoped they would punt. It didn't even occur to me that they were in FG range until Feely was lining up.
at the time I was thinking "only the 2nd punt into the 3rd qtr...not bad" Then the field goal unit came out. :shit::drunk:
Given the fragile psyche of Kickers (and, I know, Feely is a gamer and fiery guy but...), I feel like punting would've been the better decision.
Manning adapted, beat the defense straight up. Jets didn't hand anything to the Colts. The Colts earned that win.
An "easy decision"? I guess I wouldn't expect anything else from him. I'm not knocking him, but that's not exactly an easy decision.
It's not like that was unfamiliar territory for Manning. He does that shit to everybody. I can live with the loss...it didn't feel as bad as '98.
