The Colts Achilles Heel
The greatest home-field advantage in the NFL is not Seattle. It is not Miami. It is not KC, or the Super dome, or Foxboro, or being the opposing team in SoFi. It is Jacksonville, exclusively when the Colts come to town.
The Colts play the Jaguars in Jacksonville once per year. The Jaguars, except for 2017, have been pretty shit for over a decade. Yet the Indianapolis Colts cannot beat them in Florida. Not since 2014, anyway. This most recent loss of 24-0 was just another notch on the Jaguars belt for personally agonizing Indiana. The Colts were supposed to be better this year! Wentz and his errant hero balls were gone, replaced with Matty Ice. The Colts got destroyed.
In 2021, they lost their chance at the playoffs with a chokejob for the ages in week 18 against Jacksonville. In 2020, they lost their opener to the rambunctious northeastern Floridians, contributing to the Colts current ongoing streak of losing their openers (does the tie this year count? It should). They lost the season closer to Jax in 2019. In 2018, they lost, and the score was 0 – 6. In 2017 the Colts were trash and the Jags were good, so that’s okay. In 2016, it was technically not in Jacksonville, but England. The Colts still lost. In 2015 they got destroyed as the Jags put up a 50 burger on them. After that the switch flips, and the Colts beat the Jags 3 years in a row. Something broke in Indianapolis (besides Andrew Luck’s body) in 2015 and it has not been repaired since. The Colts haven’t been a stellar team in this timeframe, but they have made the playoffs twice and the Jags have spent much of those years being worse.
The Colts have time to turn it around this season, but I think any hype they might have had has sufficiently flown out the window. The Jags however…maybe they are fun again.
Opinion poll: Which is funnier, the Pats in Miami or the Colts in Jacksonville?
Pats in Miami is iconic but the Colts in Jacksonville have produced some of the most hilarious games known to man.
Remember this: in 2020 the Jaguars ended the season 1-15, their sole win coming week 1 against the Colts. It’s hard to get funnier than this
Colts in Jacksonville for sure…
Colts in Jacksonville is funnier. Miami has at least usually been a halfway competent team over that span, whereas Jax has usually been a steaming pile of dog poo.
Pats in Miami is usually compelling, but yeah, Colts in Jacksonville is so much funnier.
The Chiefs in Indianapolis.
Dougie P is a really freakin’ good coach. I don’t think that people give him quite the credit that he deserves. He willed injured and not that talented Eagles teams to the playoffs this years following their super bowl.
You should retroactively add “carcrashcomics” to the other car crash comics
This was a good idea, and I did
Wasn’t there also the Lateral about the ’99 Jags back in June?
was gonna say, pretty sure matty ice is getting up there
He is, and having a lacking O-line and dearth of weapons doesn’t help either.
This is one of my favorite recurring theme comics.
The Florida man strikes all.
matty ice suddenly being geriatric got a larf outta me. nice explosion, too!
“The Colts were supposed to be better this year! Wentz and his errant hero balls were gone, replaced with Matty Ice. ”
Only if you believed the wrong media narratives. Wentz wasn’t the problem, and Ryan was worse than Wentz last year!
This isn’t surprising at all!!