There’s no intrigue as to where the Colts go from here in the 2024 regular season. They’ll finish things out against the Jaguars on Sunday, pack their things up at the Indiana Farm Bureau Football Center a day or two after and then head home. The playoffs were absolutely in reach – a win here or a win there and this team might not just be in the dance, buyt they might be division champions, hosting a playoff game at Lucas Oil Stadium in two weeks.
“Potential just mean you ain’t did it yet,” Franklin said. “And the reality of the situation, we ain’t did it.”
Coaches and players did not feel as if they lacked the requisite urgency or effort in the days leading up to Sunday’s game. But after the game, in dour press conferences and media scrums, those folks accepted that everyone had a part a loss that doesn’t technically end the Colts’ season – but ends their chances of reaching one of their biggest goals: Making the playoffs.
“I think the standard has to be raised,” running back Jonathan Taylor said. “And we spoke about it, it’s the playoffs have to be the standard. The teams that get in, year in and year out, that’s their standard. That’s the bottom floor, like listen, we got to get in. And they know it’s tough, but they know, hey, we’re going to fight, scratch and claw to make sure every year that is the standard that you uphold.
“And for us, 2020 was the last time that we got in, we’ve got to get in. You got to get in in order to establish that standard. Like, listen, this is the Indianapolis Colts’ standard: It’s (to be) in the playoffs. So it’s going to take, individually, in the offseason, guys raising the level themselves. But guys, when you come together, you’ve got to find a way to take that individualism and put it together as a team, offense, defense, special teams, to go to that next level.”
How the Colts will get to that level is a question better answered in the offseason, when the acute…
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