The Indianapolis Colts are coming off of a tough home last week and they will try and get back on the winning side of things against the Tennessee Titans on the road and the matchup will be going down at 8:25 at LP Field for the AFC South division rivals.
The Colts come into the game after the loss at home to the Rams by 30 points and the offense will need to play much better against the Titans on Thursday, as they are the team that is resting in second place in the division and the only other one that has any chance of catching Andrew Luck and Indy. The team knows that the division title is not a given, but with the Jacksonville Jaguars and Houston Texans struggling this year, the Titans are the only ones in any position to get ahead and they can start on Thursday, as they will play the Colts twice in two weeks. The next stretch will help dictate who wins the South for both teams and the Colts come in after winning two of the past three games, but they are in the middle of a three game stretch of road contests in four weeks and the lone home matchup was lost to the Rams.
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The Colts have had some impressive wins this season and they also have some bad losses, as the offense looked stagnant against the St. Louis Rams and the San Diego Chargers, while some of the nice wins were against the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks. The team also pulled off a nice win against the San Francisco 49ers on the road and that matchup showed how dominant the team can be and was the first game with Trent Richardson in the backfield. During that two games stretch against the 49ers and the Jacksonville Jaguars, the team allowed just 10 points and looked very efficient on offense, but that was not the case last week against the Rams and now the team has lost two of their last four games as they head into the final stretch of the season.
Andrew Luck has been having a very solid year and things got a bit more difficult for him when Reggie Wayne was lost for the season, forcing names like TY Hilton and Trent Richardson to step up even more than they already were. The Colts are coming into a tough stretch and they will play on the road against the Titans and the Arizona Cardinals before coming back home to host the Titans and those two matchups likely will decide who eventually wins the division. The team then plays the Cincinnati Bengals on the road and after that are two easy games and a tough one with a home matchup with the Houston Texans, a road game against the Kansas City Chiefs and a home matchup with the Jacksonville Jaguars.
The Titans come into the game after a home loss to the Jaguars and now the team will play the Colts after dropping three of their last four games, including against tough teams like the Kansas City Chiefs, Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers, all likely playoff teams this year. The team plays a stretch of three games on the road in a row and four in five weeks after the Colts game, including road matchup's with the Raiders and Denver Broncos and before that latter game the team also plays the Colts before finishing the season with the Jaguars and Texans. The game on Thursday night will start up at 8:25 between the Colts and Titans on the NFL Network.