Thursday, December 25, 2014

2015 Colts - Week 11

1:00PM ET - November 8th, 2015
Lucas Oil Stadium - Indianapolis, IN

Tennessee Titans at Indianapolis Colts
Nov 8, 20151ST2ND3RD4THSCORE
Tennessee Titans (1-9, 0-5 Away)0103013
Indianapolis Colts (9-1, 5-0 Home)311471062

Top Performers

Passing : A. Luck (IND) - 611YDS, 6TD
Rushing : T. Richardson (IND) - 31CAR, 121YDS, 2TD
Receiving : T.Y. Hilton (IND) - 16REC, 181YDS, TD

INDIANAPOLIS - The Colts have looked good lately, but offensively they may have turned a corner that makes them unbeatable. Andrew Luck and Pep Hamilton have really put their heads together and have started to look like an unstoppable scoring machine. It helps to play a hapless Titans team getting close to the top pick in the draft, but few expected Luck to break an NFL record today.

Yes, Luck did attempt 65 passes, but the Titans had the Colts running game on lock down for the first three quarters. The Titans were also completely unable to cover the Indianapolis receivers, so Hamilton just kept dialing up the passes and Luck kept finding open receivers. It was almost more impressive that Luck was able to complete 59 of his 65 attempts with T.Y. Hilton (16) and Dwayne Allen (16) his favorite targets.

The Titans also fell victim to long TD passes by giving up bombs of 46, 54, and 80 yards to help Luck on his way to history. Things could have been much worse with 700+ yards, but the Colts held a solid 45-10 lead at the half and the Titans rushing defense softened up once they were worn out by the Colts offense.


Hilton was very helpful in getting Luck to 611 passing yards.

Trent Richardson took over in the second half with 25 of his 31 rushing attempts coming in the second half. With the Titans spent it was easy for the Indianapolis line to manhandle the Titans defensive front and put the game away. Tennessee's offense was also horrible, an 80 yard TD pass to Kendall Wright made Case Keenum's stat line look more reasonable, but as a whole they just couldn't move the ball and keep pace with Indianapolis.

The Colts will be at home again next week and have a decent shot at 10-1 with the 7-3 Buccaneers coming to Lucas Oil Stadium. It's doubtful the Colts can keep up scoring like they did today, but they won't need to score 62 every game if their defense continues to play well.

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