Colts get result they needed, even if it wasn't the result they wanted, a 32-31 loss that moves them up draft board and denies Houston the No. 1 pick.
This is such a weird story to write, because that was such a weird game to watch. Inside Lucas Oil Stadium, about the only place where victory had a ring of nobility, the players on both teams wanted it. The coaches wanted it. In the crowd, Colts fans arrived in force for the bleakest game of this lost season. They wanted to win, booing coach Jeff Saturday for chickening out on fourth-and-goal from the 3, shaming him into trying to score a touchdown.
Houston has a league-high 12 picks in the draft, including two first-rounders and two third-rounders. The Texans are about to get a lot better either way, but losing this game to the Colts – and beating Chicago for the No. 1 overall pick – would’ve increased the franchise’s odds of not screwing it up. Let’s pretend for a moment that the Texans aren’t going to screw it up regardless. Pretty good chance they will, because they’re the Texans.
Confusing times though, right? It’s bizarro world, writing about something as normally cataclysmic as an NFL game, where winning isn’t everything, as Vince Lombardi once said – it’s the only thing – but writing about this loss like it’s a win. Which it was, for the Colts, when the draft begins on April 27.
He’s not. He was probably going down at the 18, a legit hit by the Texans, when McGrone arrived from behind and reached in and ripped the ball loose from his teammate.Now, do I think McGrone meant to rip the ball loose? No. He was probably trying to push Flowers ahead a few more yards, but his arm hit the wrong spot – the ball, not Flowers’ back – and the football came loose.
Even if that interception had helped the Colts win, how could you be mad at Thomas? Better, though, to appreciate his bungled interception in the final seconds, when he went airborne to pick off Davis Mills’ fourth-and-20 heave from the 30-yard line – there it is again – and whiffed, allowing the ball to pass through his fingers and into the hands of Houston’s Jordan Akins in the end zone with 50 seconds left.
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