The Thursday night football game for Week 11 of the NFL season brings together two division rivals in the AFC South, as the Indianapolis Colts will travel to play the Tennessee Titans on the NFL Network starting up at 8:25 pm from LP Field and the game will have one of the top young quarterbacks in the league in Andrew Luck and will stream online from the NFL.com website.
The Colts come into the game after a very tough loss to the St. Louis Rams 38-8 and it came at a bad time, as the team is in the middle of a stretch of three of four games on the road and that was the lone home matchup. The Colts started off the season 4-1 and have slipped a bit, but they are in great position to make the playoffs as the division winner, especially if they can get past the titans, who are the team right behind them in the division at a 4-5 record while the Colts are 6-3 this season. The team pulled off a huge win against the Denver Broncos and held on for a win against the Houston Texans on the road, but they slipped up to the Rams last week and they were playing without their starting quarterback in Sam Bradford, who is out for the season.
Luck has been very solid this season with 2,198 yards and 14 touchdowns and Trent Richardson is now leading the team in rushing after getting traded earlier in the season, although he has not made as big of an impact as many thought he would. The team is still reeling from the loss of Reggie Wayne for the season and now TY Hilton is the leader with 41 catches for 663 yards and five touchdowns and after playing the Titans they have another tough road game against the improved Cardinals in Arizona. The division looks safe for the Colts, but the Titans are right there if they slip, while the Houston Texans and the Jaguars look out of it with two wins and one win on the season.
The Colts have been a consistent team on offense this season and the rest of the schedule has some tough games, but nothing that should be too difficult, as they play the Titans again after the Cardinals and then the team faces the Cincinnati Bengals on the road in Week 14 before playing the Houston Texans at home. The team then has a road game against the Kansas City Chiefs before playing the Jacksonville Jaguars and that should be an easy game to get past.
The Colts are ranked 15th in the league in passing yards per game and 16th in rushing yards per contest and the defense has been giving up too many yards this season. The Titans come into the game after losing to the Jaguars and that came after a win against the Rams. The team then plays the Raiders, Colts and Broncos in three straight road games and then the team plays the Cardinals, Jaguars and Houston Texans to finish the season.