It's Bye Week Coming Up Next !

And it couldn't come at a better time for the Indianapolis Colts, who lose their second game of the year (both at Loser Oil Stadium) to division rival Jacksonville, 23-21.

Usually Peyton Manning doesn't cost you a game. This time, he helped make it tough on anyone to think he didn't at least help. Some questionable throws led to two interceptions - one that went the other way for a Jax touchdown, and the other that probably cost the Colts a minimum of 3 points and control of the game when they already led 14-10.

But it wasn't just Manning. The defense could not tackle and continually whiffed on would-be tackles for loss of yardage, including one that saw Fred Taylor turn a certain 7 yard loss into a 34 yard gain into Colts terrority. It was not pretty.

That said, the veteran QB led the comeback and put the Colts in front 21-20 with a minute and 4 seconds to go. And after Adam Vinateiri kicked it out of the endzone, the Jags faced the daunting task of moving it into field goal range with just 56 seconds remaining. Which is where a poor pass interference call was made on linebacker Freddy Keiaho (who was basically frozen in place like so many Colt defenders all day) and had a receiver run into him while running the Jags pass route. THAT was flagged as interference and gave Jacksonville a first down after the Colts had seemingly stopped them on 4th and 3.

After that it was just a matter of how long the FG would be for Scoobey, who nailed a 45 yarder with lots of room to spare.

Indy has a bye week next week and hopefully it will give Manning and the offense some time to get adjusted and fine-tune their timing. The defense, meanwhile, can't fine-tune anything. They really can't stop the run and are facing more games without Bob Sanders. But the main problem is the lack of ability to stop the run consistently.

Following the bye week, the Colts travel to Houston for another division game - which is nearly a "must-win" as they find themselves trailing Tennessee by two games already in the AFC South.