Mea culpa, Part Deux

So remember a couple of weeks ago, when the Blob admitted it was wrong, wrong, wrong about the Indianapolis Colts?

Well, it's time for the latest installment of that. In which the Blob admits it was not just wrong, wrong, wrong, but preposterously wrong, cataclysmically wrong, why-the-hell-didn't-I-see-this-coming wrong.

"Because you're stupid?" you're saying.

I would like to think not.

"Because you're always wrong about everything, then?"

Come on, that's a gross exaggerati ... OK, an exaggera ... OK, not technically accurate.

"Because for a guy who used to cover sports, you sure don't know much about sports?"

Absolutely not true. I know more about cricket than most people.

OK, most people in America, then.

OK, most people who live on my block.

Where was I again?

Oh, yeah. The Colts.

Who went down to Texas and whupped the hottest team in the AFC last week, the Houston Texans, who previously had won nine straight games. And who came home yesterday and whupped a Dallas Cowboys team that had won five straight -- and not just whupped them, but shut their America's Team butts out.

That moves the Colts to 8-6 and keeps them in the playoff hunt, and, yes, Pinocchio, you're a real football team now. They've now won seven of their last eight games, and it would have been eight out of their last eight if not for that strange hiccup in Jacksonville a couple of weeks back. And they were so impressive yesterday that the Blob is now in full bandwagon mode, in the sense that it's wondering how many AFC teams are now desperately hoping the Horsies don't make the playoffs.  

Because really, would you want to play them right now? Especially if you watched the way they rendered helpless a team that had been one of the most potent offensively in the league the last month-and-a-half?

Look, this being the NFL, there's still a chance the Colts could Jacksonville this thing away in the next two weeks. I mean, the Patriots lost to the Steelers yesterday, even though the Steelers had been playing like a bunch of goofs. The previously unbeatable Rams lost to the "meh" Eagles. There's no predicting anything in this league.

Doesn't seem likely, though.

To start with, Andrew Luck is finally answering the questions fans have been asking for four years -- i.e., how good would he be if he had an offensive line that could block a stiff breeze? Marlon Mack has given the Colts a run game. And the defense, stuffed with talented, athletic young players, seems to get scarier every week.

And you know what they say: You get to December and January, defense and a run game win the games for you.

In other words, the same Blob that said this team was no playoff team when it was 1-5 is now saying it doesn't really matter if the Colts make the playoffs or not. Because you know what?

That was a playoff team I was watching yesterday. It just was.