Monday, October 3, 2011

Monday Night Football

Indianapolis at Tampa Bay

Curtis Painter has played in three games in his young career. In those three games he’s completed just one out of every three passes, thrown two interceptions, and lost three fumbles. With an offense that is designed around one of the greatest quarterbacks in the league, Curtis Painter has some monstrous shoes to fill. I don’t think that Curtis Painter has the ability to lead this offense the way that it needs to be lead for the Colts to win. I expect the Colts offense to look confused and make some mistakes that cause some big problems for them throughout the game. On the other hand the Indianapolis Defense hasn’t looked too horrible yet this year led by one of the most consistent players in the NFL – Dwight Freeney. Dwight Freeney is an animal, he’s big, fast, and strong. Don’t want to take my word for it? Then check this out.


I’d like to keep my shoes on thank you. It’s going to take a whole lot of this, and an impressive rush stopping defense for the Colts to pull out a victory in week four.

LeGarrette Blount is one of my favorite players to watch in the league. He’s a tough down hill runner, who doesn’t care who or what gets in his way. He’s going to use a versatile set of athletic abilities to either run an opponent over, or leave them diving for his shadow. If the Buccaneers can establish an early running game between the tackles, they are going to have a field day against this Colts defense. Once Blount makes a few hard runs up the gut, the play action is going to open up and Freeman is going to hit a few long bombs before this one is over. With Painter starting opposite the Tampa Bay defense I don’t foresee too many problems as long as they don’t let Indianapolis start running through them.

With Painter starting it’s really going to come down to the Colts defense, and that’s just asking too much against this young impressive Tampa Bay offensive arsenal. Blount, Freeman and Williams are going to continue to show that Tampa is ready to be contenders again in the NFC South.

Tampa Bay celebrates on national television with a 24-10 victory over the Colts.

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