The Indianapolis Colts are on the road to take on the Pittsburgh Steelers in week 0 of the 2025 season, kickoff is at 1:00 p.m. EST.
Once again the 2025 Indianapolis Colts won last weekends game by multiple
scores. The final score was Colts 38, Titans 14. But the final score doesn’t tell the whole story, it never does. What might seem obvious: the Tennessee Titans are seemingly, desperately vying for the number one overall pick in the 2026 NFL draft. In the salary cap era this has only been accomplished four times, the Cincinnati Bengals (‘94-’95), the Browns (‘99-’00), the Browns again (‘17-’18) and the Jacksonville Jaguars (‘21-’22). Right now the Titans are battling with the New Orleans Saints and New York Jets for the honor of being so bad at football that they get to overdraft a quarterback they will jettison off their roster in four years time.
What about the unobvious? It’s hard to poke holes in a three score victory (assuming all three 2-point attempts were successful) but the fact of the matter is the league’s best offense came out flat. On the other side of the ball Cam Ward and his ragtag band of misfits couldn’t capitalize on the gift they had been given. Eventually Daniel Indiana Jones righted the ship and the offense got their act together, but for a team who seemingly starts every game red hot, this was a departure.
The Colts won’t be able to rely on poor quarterback play from their opponent. Aaron Rodgers isn’t what he once was, and being just a few years behind the future hall of famer, I get it. That said, what Rodgers is doing this year, after the disaster that was 2024, is nothing short of incredible. He isn’t a special player anymore but mentally, he’s all there. My concern this week is that there may not be a quarterback left on the Colts schedule that could make the Indy defense pay for their mistakes quite like Rodgers can this weekend.
Defensively, I don’t believe the Steelers have the juice to slow down the Indy offense, but I don’t believe anyone does. If someone were to say that the 2025 Indianapolis Colts had the best gridiron football offense in the known universe, I wouldn’t disagree. This Steelers defense is old and injured, it’s just not good. With that said if the Indy offense comes out flat like they did a week ago, this defense has the experience to capitalize and Aaron Rodgers still has the ability to make them pay.
I haven’t felt this apprehensive for a Colts game since week one, but that was before Daniel Jones became “Indiana”.
Prediction:
Steelers: 31
Colts: 34
As always, go Colts.
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