The Indianapolis Colts are 10-0 and will be favored to win all six of their remaining games. But they don’t want to hear talk about a perfect season.
“It’s certainly something that we haven’t talked about,” Colts quarterback Peyton Manning said. “We don’t talk about it around here. All we talk about is the next opponent. All we talk about is just taking it one game at a time. That’s really kind of been our philosophy.”
On Sunday the Colts will play the Texans in Houston, and their remaining schedule includes home games against the Titans, Broncos and Jets, plus road trips to Buffalo and Jacksonville. Those are all certainly winnable games.
So the Colts could find themselves in a situation where they’re 12-0 or 13-0 and already have clinched home-field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs, and it’s not clear whether first-year Colts coach Jim Caldwell will give plenty of rest to the Colts’ top players should that happen, or whether the Colts would try to go undefeated.
And the Colts won’t even entertain the thought, saying they’re only focusing on the next game.
So while Mercury Morris and his 1972 Dolphins teammates wait on both the Colts and the New Orleans Saints to suffer their first loss, the Colts are going to stay mum on the subject.