Everybody’s all over the Colts this season. In the preseason, I even picked them as the SuperBowl winners (against the Falcons).
But I’m tired of hearing about how great they are. I read today that the teams that they have beaten have a combined winning percentage of .321. Wow. That’s real impressive. They’ve beat 9 teams that lose two-thirds of the time. Here’s the NFL’s conference standings: http://www.nfl.com/standings/conference. Notice how the #2 team in the AFC, the Broncos, have a .524 strength of victory.
To Dave (our resident Jacksonville fanboy)’s credit, Jacksonville’s strength of victory is .481.
Of course, all these stats are total crap, because the Saints’ strength of victory is the highest in the league at .611.
I predict the Colts beat the Bengals this weekend, but they won’t go unbeaten. They’ll start resting starters by week 15 if not before and get beaten by Arizona or the Chargers.