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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ulrik" data-source="post: 3309106" data-attributes="member: 32128">The Colts will win it, unless something flukey happens - any given sunday and all that!The Bears have a great defense, true - but the Colts have one of the greatest offenses in history this year. It just hasn't been as visible, because the horrid regular season run defense, combined with Manning using the chicken dance to run down the play clock every play has meant that the Colts have just had fewer drives than other teams - just 148 offensive drives over the entire regular season! The next fewest drives belong to the Texans at 164 and then the Jets at 171. Most teams had between 170 and 190 (<a href="http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/drivestats.php)" target="_blank">http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/drivestats.php)</a>. The Colts had nearly 33% more yards per drive than the second ranked team (New Orleans, 41.03 vs 33.98).The Colts will start by stacking up against the run, and Bob Sanders will stay in and play the run until Rex proves that they have to take him seriously. True, Rex-to-Berrian is dangerous, but the Tampa-2 does excel at taking away the deep pass.Manning has been in a funk in the playoffs, but he turned it on in the second half against the patriots. If he plays at his regular level, the Bears are toast.So the question is really, will Manning or the Colts run defense return to their usual form? If Manning picks it up and the defense continues to play out of their minds, the Colts win in a blowout. If Manning continues to play like a normal QB and the defense collapses, the Bears should win it. If the Colts continue to play like they did either in the regular season or in the playoffs before the second half of the Patriots game, it will be a tense, low-scoring game, because either Manning & Co. will put up a bunch of field goals again, or the bears will run for 300 yards, giving the Colts time for only three TD drives  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Of course, Bears ST vs Colts ST is a huge mismatch, so that is a big advantage for the bears...</blockquote>

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