Blue echoes

 The Blob makes no claim to seeing patterns in things. Mostly I'm just an old guy who remembers stuff.

And so I see Carson Wentz make throws when he needs to and Jonathan Taylor lug it for 100-plus yards for, like, the eleventy-hundredth time, and I see the Colts outlast the Cardinals on the road for their eighth win in the last 10 games. And it reminds me of something.

It reminds me of 2006, kinda.

And, please. Pay special attention to the "kinda."

That's because the Blob is not going to go off its meds and declare these Colts are going to wind up winning the Super Bowl, the way the 2006 Colts did. But the way this team is winning games jogs my memory, kinda. And the memory it jogs is the way the 2006 Colts won that Super Bowl in the rain in Miami.

They did it, kinda, with defense and a running game.

They beat the Chiefs 23-8, the Ravens 15-6 and held the Patriots to 13 points in the second half to reach the Super Bowl. Then they held the Bears' offense to 10 points in the 29-17 Super Bowl win.

And, yes, Peyton Manning did Peyton Manning things in that playoff run. But Dominic Rhodes and Joseph Addai gave Manning a run game, too, going over 100 yards between them in each of the Colts playoff wins.

In the Super Bowl, Rhodes lugged it 21 times for 113 yards, and Addai got the call 19 more times for 77 yards. He also caught 10 passes for 66 yards.

That should have made him the Super Bowl MVP, in the Blob's opinion. But Manning was named the MVP because quarterbacks are almost always the Super Bowl MVP unless they actively soil themselves -- and besides, this quarterback was Peyton Manning.

Now, Carson Wentz is not Peyton Manning. He's never going to be Peyton Manning.

But Jonathan Taylor is Jonathan Taylor -- i.e., the best RB in the league this year -- and he's doing exactly what Addai and Rhodes did together in 2006, which is put up 100 yards every week in the stretch run. And the defense is putting the brakes on people just enough for Taylor and Not Peyton Manning to get the W. And these Colts have bounced back from a 1-4 star -- kinda (that word again) like the 2006 Colts bounced back from a 3-4 regular-season finish to win it all.

Again, the analogy isn't perfect. And this is not the Blob saying 2006 is going to happen again. 

All I'm saying is there's a resemblance -- a blue echo, if you will. And it's ... kinda  interesting.