Physician: No greater risk for Luck re-injuring kidney when he returns

“I’m a human being and when things that I can’t control don’t go my way, I get a little upset, but I’ve got to be more mature than that”, Evans said of the penalty. Running back Andre Ellington missed his second consecutive game for the Cardinals with a turf toe injury.

After a 51-16 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Colts’ divisional winning streak ends at 16 games. As recently as last week, they did not expect Luck to be able to play against the Texans. Luck did say he does not feel like he’s 100 percent back from his injury.

Luck’s workload has steadily increased. Toler was dinged up in the loss to Pittsburgh two weeks ago. Later, when asked about Luck’s comments today regarding how he would hopefully practice this week, Pagano said that, “I have not heard anything from our trainers or doctors on that”.

The Auburn product hadn’t played cornerback since his early college days at Georgia, but he has clearly made a lot of progress in practice over the last several months. He played nickel back against the Colts over veterans Dwayne Gratz and Demetrius McCray.

The players poured over the Jacksonville film Monday and the verdict wasn’t as discoursing as one would presume.

Pagano stressed the hope is that Matt Hasselbeck will be ready to play.

“(The sling) is to prevent – he’s having spasm that go along with his rib injury”, Pagano said. Win Sunday against Houston and the Colts will have a good chance to capture another AFC South title. “I’m holding up great”, Pagano said, referring to his battle with leukemia. Permanent? I don’t think there’s anything permanent. “In my mind, the urgency has not changed”.

The news isn’t all bad.

Anthony Castonzo has missed the past three games.

If the victor of the Colts/Texans contest next week wins their final two games, they will represent the AFC South in the playoffs.

But in Indianapolis, there are bigger concerns than who plays and who doesn’t.

-RB Frank Gore rushed for 60 yards on 16 carries to lead the Colts ground game. They’ve struggled in the red zone, scored just 75 total points over that span, and their only touchdown Sunday came on Robert Mathis’ fumble recovery in the end zone on a botched Jacksonville snap.

Humphries’ touchdown brought the Buccaneers within seven points in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s game, but they were unable to score again, so the Saints won, 24-17.

“Hell yeah”, echoed safety Mike Adams on Monday.

“This was the first time that we got our tails kicked in”, Quinn said.

The Jaguars, though, weren’t talking much about the playoffs after routing the Colts.

But if they don’t protect their home turf against an opponent that has lost 13 straight in Indy, the Colts’ postseason hopes would take a major hit. “I thought the defense played really well in the first half and kept us in it. I think in the second half, we had a touchdown in all three phases, which is impressive….” “Our defense was playing well so we had to match them”. It was Bortles’ 10th touchdown pass in the last three weeks, the most by a Jaguars quarterback ever during a three-game stretch.