The Colts had a mighty huge hill to climb to beat the Philadelphia Eagles. The Eagles were at home and coming off a bye. They are a good football team with a good coach. They were once again healthy as Michael Vick and Deshean Jackson returned from injury.
The Colts on the other hand are the most beat up team in Football. They added Clint Session to the already long list of wounded and unable to play for this game. Other players who couldn't play that started last week were Running Back Mike Hart, Corner Justin Tryon and Anthony Gonzales is now out for the season with a knee injury. This on a list that includes Dallas Clark, Joseph Addai, Jerraud Powers and Melvin Bullit and Bob Sanders.
Donald Brown is trying to come back from injury but doesn't look 100% leaving 4th string running back Javaris James to do a lot of the heavy lifting.
In addition, Austin Collie suffered a concussion late in the first half after he was knocked unconscious after a devastating hit by the Eagles secondary (The hit looked legal in spite of the penalty, by the way.) Collie had to be carried off on a stretcher but later it was reported he was sitting up and alert.
How much more can one team take.
The Colts didn't do theselves any favors by spotting the Eagles 10 points, but they fought back to gain a 17-16 lead at half time. Unfortunately big plays did the Colts in. They played with heart (not Hart) and had a slim chance at the end with 43 seconds left but were unable to make the plays to get downfield for a chance at a field goal and the game was over when Manning was picked off on a 4th and very long with 3 seconds remaining.
Fortunately for the Colts, they remain tied with Tennessee for first in the division at 5- 3 as Houston lost to San Diego. No one is pulling away in the AFC as New England also lost leaving them with 2 losses.
The Colts do need to heal fast or this season will soon get away from them.
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