A big reveal. Or not.

 God it looks like Daniel ...

-- Elton John

Well, it did.

Look like Daniel, I mean.

And by "Daniel," I mean the Other Daniel, aka Manhattan Daniel Jones, aka That Guy Who Only Became Indiana Jones When He Came To A Place -- Indianapolis-- That Had A Running Back And Some Actual Wide Receivers And, Oh, Yeah, The NFL'S Next Great Tight End.

Well, forget that noise. At least for one Sunday.

It was a day when Other Daniel re-emerged thanks to the Pittsburgh Steelers, who put together a game plan that sent Indiana Jones into hiding. As his Indianapolis Colts went down 27-20, Other Daniel completed 31-of-50 passes, took five sacks, threw three picks and lost two fumbles. That's five turnovers to you and me, kids.

"I'm so disappointed in you, Junior," Sean Connery said in a postgame statement.

OK, so he didn't. But every skeptic in America who'd been waiting for Daniel Jones to stop impersonating a really good quarterback and go back to being Daniel Jones again got some meat and drink yesterday.

All it took was for the Steelers to A) get an early lead, and B) thereby take Jonathan Taylor out of the equation, or mostly out of the equation. Taylor lugged it 14 times for just 45 yards Sunday, as Jones tried vainly to pass the Colts back into it. But with Taylor mostly erased as a factor, the Colts offense became a three-legged stool minus a leg.

And Indiana Jones became merely Daniel Jones again.

"Told ya!" the skeptics sneered.

So they did. But does yesterday mean the Colts are going to go back to being the Colts again?

Nah.

Oh, sure, mimicry being a way of life in the NFL, everyone the Horseshoes will face from here on out will study the Pittsburgh tape, and then try to duplicate it. But not everyone has a T.J. Watt, an Alex Highsmith or a Keeanu Benton, who combined for four sacks, five tackles for loss and four quarterback hits Sunday. And Jonathan Taylor is not going to stop being Jonathan Taylor, which means he likely has a few more 100-yard days left in him.

Which means Jones will face more defenses that will have to play him honest, which in turn means they won't be teeing off on him the way the Steelers were able to. And which also means he can resume picking people apart with throws to Michael Pittman Jr. and Alec Pierce and Josh Downs and Tyler Warren, and all the other quality targets the Colts have in their stable.

In other words, that big ugly reveal the skeptics have been predicting perhaps wasn't as revealing as it looks. After all, it wasn't magic dust that turned Manhattan Daniel Jones into Indiana Jones. It was what it always is: The right combination of scheme, personnel and confidence in both.

You've gotta figure that combination is still there. Or, if you're the Colts, you hope it is.