Colts still searching for answers to make playoff push

And thus came to an end the Colts’ 16-game winning streak against AFC South opponents, dropping their record to 6-7 and further draining the dwindling hope of a late-season surge into the playoffs that seems necessary to salvage the jobs of Pagano and possibly GM Ryan Grigson.

Colts head coach Chuck Pagano updated the media on Hasselbeck’s status today.

The process for handling kidney injuries similar to Luck’s, according to Kory, involves regular CT scans to determine whether the lacerated organ is healing, tests to determine if there’s blood in the individual’s urine from the injury and if the individual is tolerating increased physical activity without unusual pain.

“We’ve found a way to play a huge meaningful game in December”.

This season, it’s become evident that the Jaguars need a defensive back with ball skills. The loss was the Colts’ second blowout defeat in as many games, after Indianapolis fell to the Pittsburgh Steelers 45-10 on the road last week.

Bradley said they’ll have an update on his condition on Wednesday. OK, it’s too wild to imagine, we agree. For the Texans, things would get significantly more hard and they’d need some help. “But what really matters is what we do from here on out”.

“This week, it will be along the same lines”. “We have to keep grinding and keep believing that we’re going to get to our goal”, he said. He didn’t get much backup support, however, as two other backs combined for just 23 yards in five carries.

In Week 14, the Jacksonville Jaguars stepped out of their comfort zone in a game that Gus Bradley deemed more about the team finding itself than outmatching its competition. Marshall played over, the Jaguars’ third-round pick in 2013, and, the team’s second-round pick that year.

The Jaguars had lost six in a row in the series, but ended that streak with a dominant second-half performance.

Before his injuries, Luck threw for 1,881 yards, 15 touchdowns and 12 interceptions over seven games. He passed for 252 yards against the Jaguars, but take away a 57-yard completion to T.Y. Hilton, and Hasselbeck would have been under 215 yards for the third time in the last four games. Running back Andre Ellington missed his second consecutive game for the Cardinals with a turf toe injury. Houston is likely going to miss Hoyer, which puts T.J. Robinson leads the league in touchdown receptions.

Kelly denied a Philadelphia Inquirer report that said he called McCoy last week only to have McCoy hang up on him. He returned after the first injury but sustained a rib injury in the fourth quarter and did not come back. The next step is for team doctors to clear Luck for practice, and Monday he gave every indication that will be the case when practice resumes Wednesday.

Luck said Monday that his conditioning needs work but that he felt fine throwing the ball, which was another hurdle that Luck needed to clear after playing through some shoulder issues. Following a 51-16 thumping of the Colts, they are still alive after starting out 1-5.

Once the narrative in Indianapolis shifted earlier in the season from whether or not the team would make the Super Bowl to whether or not they would even make the playoffs, we could all feel the tension starting to build. There had already been animosity between head coach Chuck Pagano and owner Jim Irsay, but there hadn’t been sufficient grounds to fire the head coach until this year.