The Thursday night football game in Week 12 is a divisional matchup between the New Orleans Saints and the Atlanta Falcons and the game will be on the NFL Network starting up at 8:25 pm and streaming online from NFL.com and the matchup will be in Hotlanta at the Georgia Dome.
The Titans come into the game disappointed after a tough loss to give the Jaguars their first win of the season and now they must try to rebound to save any chance they have at making the playoffs, as the team is right behind the Colts and have then twice in the next three games and past that, it will be hard to catch up without at least winning one of the contests against them and that won't be easy, especially with quarterback Jake Locker out for the rest of the season, leaving Ryan Fitzpatrick to start and the team likely will give the ball to Chris Johnson a great deal. The matchup has some great players with Andrew Luck, Trent Richardson and Johnson, but Reggie Wayne will be missing after getting a season ending injury a couple weeks ago and this is an important game for the Titans, as they have a stretch of three games in a row away from home coming up.
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Luck passed for over 350 yards per game last week in the loss to the Rams and the team comes in after winning the previous two games over the Houston Texans and the Denver Broncos in the anticipated return of Peyton Manning to Indy and now the team will try and put itself in better position to make the playoffs with a win against the Titans on Thursday night. The two teams will play each other a couple times over the next three games and after travelling for the Thursday matchup, the Colts will host the team in Week 13 at home and before that the Colts have to travel to play the improved Arizona Cardinals and that could be a tougher matchup than previously expected, as Carson Palmer and Larry Fitzgerald have been playing well together.
The Colts them head into a stretch with three road games in four matchups and after playing the Titans the team also has tough games with the Cincinnati Bengals before hosting the Houston Texans and that could end up being a bit of a trap game by the end of the season. The team then has a tough road game against the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead before playing the Jacksonville Jaguars and while that game looks easy, they will not lay down and by then the Colts could have the division locked up, but the Titans could also get close in the South race.
TY Hilton will be a main focus for the Titans defense and the Colts offense, as Luck has been going to him quite a bit since Reggie Wayne went down, as he has hit him for three scores and zero picks over that time, while the numbers have been one and three to everyone else. Hilton has a knack for the big plays and he should get the chance to go against the Titans, as they have been giving up chunks of yards this season to receivers. The Titans have dealt with a tough schedule already and they have more tough games to go, as they are in the middle of a four road game stretch in six games, including against the Rams two weeks ago and after playing the Colts they will hit the west coast for the Raiders, then back against the Colts in Indy before travelling to Denver to play the Broncos.
The game on Thursday night has the Indianapolis Colts and the Tennessee Titans playing on the NFL Network starting up at 8:25 pm from LP Field.