I know its not bills related but i want to get everyone's opinion on this. With the AFC playoff race tight as it is. I think its unfair to the other teams that the colts were winning then seemingly didn't try to win. Just think if the bills were one of the teams that needed the jets to lose. It would piss everyone off. I don't know what kinda rules you could make for this but in shear respect for the game you should never not try in a meaningful game.
Thoughts?
this is why it's important that you control your own destiny instead of needing help from other teams. If the bills needed a colts win to back up into the playoffs, then we don't deserve to be in it to begin with.
What is important to other teams is no importance to the colts. Their goal is to win the sb and everyone else can watch them win it.
Last edited by justasportsfan; 12-29-2009 at 03:42 PM.
the point is
You play to win the game if they were worried about peyton getting hurt don't even play him
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Originally Posted by justasportsfan
That is a good point but it still would piss people off to see a team not trying out there agaisnt a team you need to lose.
whose to say they weren't trying to win the game with their back ups?
Disagree. The team's first priority is to the team, not to everyone else. The Colts should do what they think is in the best interest of the Colts trying to win a Super Bowl. Whether or not what they did actually accomplished that is another question...
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The Bills were in the same position a couple times and once Marv Levy was told the same thing by someone.
His response (paraphrasing):
"We have no obligation to any team but ourselves. We earned the right to play it however we want. We can't worry about what any other team wants or needs."
I agree 100%. Imagine of Jim Kelly got hurt and Marv said, "yeah, we played him because we wanted to make sure it was fair for the rest of the teams fighting for playoff spots."
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The game they are playing to win is the Super Bowl. Can't do that if Peyton blows out a knee.
It's a less than 1% chance, but why risk it? The on ly reason I would have played starters longer is to placate my paying audience. Those in the Dome at Indy are the only ones I feel bad for- paying top dollar to see an exhibition game. If it was a road game, Id sit them myself.
colts had a better chance to win with me at qb
To the main point of the thread, the Colts did this a few years back (if I remember correctly) and hosed the Browns out of a playoff spot.
Remember the final game of 1992? Kelly got knocked out of that one and he sat for a couple of playoff games. Indy doesn't have a Frank Reich to rely on
I'm sure the Browns hosed themselves. Win 11 games and you don't have to worry about someone hosing you out of the playoffs
True. Just making the point that this has happened before.
I would normally slightly agree with the Colts resting, but not this time. They pulled a real chicken **** move on Sunday.
If the Browns won in week 16 against the Bengals that year they wouldn't have needed a Titans loss to the Colts in week 17.
It also would have rendered their week 17 matchup, that they won, vs the Niners meaningless.
The Browns lost on an tiebreaker, conference record i believe, to the Titans.
It goes the other way too. A team eliminated from the playoffs playing backups and getting smoked impacts playoff races too.
Lots of people on this board, regardless if Fitz or Edwards were healthy or not were clamoring to put in Brian Brohm.
Or when your team stinks, and you want them to sandbag for a higher draft pick. That stinks even more than what people claim Indy did
No other team should ***** about what the Colts did.
If you take care of your own business then you don't have to rely on help from someone else.
the problem i have is
*He played 3 qtrs
*The Offense was not in sync
* Manning was missing plays he normally Hits
* Chance they face the jets who now have confidence againist them
* You play to win everyone knew once painter was in the game was over
* You could see the players wanted it its not like this happens every year
* i hate the dolphins
The Jets ended up getting the lucky break here. They needed two wins and got the Colts with back-up players for 25+ minutes and they get the Bengals with nothing to gain and in the mode of running a vanilla O and D because they may face the Jets the following week.
The NFL is almost as much about when you play as who you play.
Another reason this was a bad move is the fact that the Jets are still clearly in it. I could almost see the Colts doing it against the Bills since they are out of it, but what if this move by Indy pushed the Jets into the playoffs and they face each other again?
going 16-0 is winning a battle at the risk of losing the war.
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