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Indianapolis Colts TE Dallas Clark (David J. Phillip/AP Photo)
Let's take a moment before the week gets started, before we start hearing about all that's wrong with the Indianapolis Colts, before we hear more in the coming weeks about what they should or shouldn't do in terms of resting or not resting -- and certainly before the topic by anyone writing about them becomes what they have or haven't done in previous postseasons . . .
Let's forget those topics a moment, and appreciate something not always appreciated:
Let's appreciate just what this team has done, and what it is still doing.
This is the time to appreciate, because as anyone who has played in, worked in or followed the NFL for any amount of time can tell you, winning streaks can end any time.
And yes, there's a fairly good chance that of the Colts will end soon.
Not against Tennessee on Sunday, necessarily, although with the Titans -- like Houston and Baltimore before them -- playing for their playoff lives, it's far from out of the question that a team that suddenly and surprisingly is one of the NFL's hottest could win in Lucas Oil Stadium on Sunday.
But whether the loss comes Sunday, it's hard to picture it not happening before the end of the season. Not because the Colts can't win the rest of their games. They can, just as they have won their last 11 and the last nine last regular season. The teams remaining on the Colts' schedule -- Tennessee, Denver, Jacksonville, the New York Jets and Buffalo -- are each absolutely beatable. A strong argument can be made that if the Colts maneuver past Tennessee Sunday they are at least unofficially through the most difficult part of the 2009 schedule.
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