Colts Horrid In Season Opener

All I know for sure is that the AFC is a little topsy-turvy after the opening weekend of play. Indy and SD lose at home, Brady is out at New England and Jacksonville gets popped by Tennessee, giving the Titans sole ownership of the AFC South - the first time in 56 straight weeks that the Indianapolis Colts were not in that position.

But as for the Colts specifically, I think all that is really needed to win the division title is for Peyton Manning and the offensive line to get some more game experience as a full unit. One must remember that Manning, having been out all summer until this first game against Chicago, is a demonic stickler for precision and preparation. Methinks he and the line have myriad aspects to work on in order to polish both those aspects of the Colts offense.

On defense, however, it's a whole other story. Any team the Colts face that has a solid running back will be licking its chops waiting for the Colts. Indy has a tremendously huge void at defensive tackle, and there isn't the depth nor talent level available to do much this season - save a new face coming into Indianapolis.

So that puts enormously unhealthy expectations on the linebackers - a corps that really isn't all that deep in my opinion - to help stop the run, and on Dwight Freeney and Robert Mathis to get to the quarterback more often when they do attempt to pass. And obviously, the secondary can expect to face a stiffer workload now that they will have to come up and support the run defense even more than ordinary.

Don't look now, but here come the Minnesota Vikings, with Adrian Peterson, Chester Taylor and a beast of an offensive line that is most certainly anxious to get on the field at home vs the Colts to get the bad taste out of their mouth from the Monday night loss.