Story of 2006 Indianapolis Colts XLI Champions

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[@WalterWhiteFootballSharing]

2006 Colts; 23rd ranked defense, the first time a QB has carried a team that didn't stop anyone reg season all the way. Brady, Rodgers, all of the MVP QBs in history NEVER accomplished this. Not Montana, not Bradshaw. Mahomes just repeated it in 2022 but it wasnt as bad as 23rd place. Yes, Bob sanders and the colts tightened it up in Jan; but the 06 Championship was a shootout in which Manning delivered against a far far better talented and coached defense.

[@WalterWhiteFootballSharing]

Brady is not inferior, he just never NEEDED to do what Peyton did, score score score to win games and titles until 2017. He nearly pulled it off, but the better defense finally showed up in a Brandon Graham strip sack of Brady at crunch time SB. 2020 Too bad Mahomes and Brady didn't get a fair fight; Mahomes lost both Off tackles and ran for his life.

[@BostonBruinsFan30]

@@WalterWhiteFootballSharingBrady did drag the 30th ranked defense in 2011 to Super Bowl but lost to Giants

[@teddyjun1]

@@WalterWhiteFootballSharing I am now reading this. Brady had the worst corps in his career in 2006. Troy Brown, Jabar Gaffney, Reche Caldwell. Maybe add Chad Jackson. Reche Caldwell could have had a game clinching TD so the patriots would not have to be so desperate for a game winning TD with a min left.

[@AmirKhan-yv8jm]

that defense stepped up in the playoffs!

[@P0RKINS2]

@@teddyjun1 I’d argue 2019 was worse

[@ra-TH_]

Let's be honest, that defense was top 10 when Bob came back during the playoffs.. the man was different..

[@WalterWhiteFootballSharing]

True; the playoff games they completely shut down 2 running teams when run defense was their worst aspect.

[@Alex-xj5rz]

I grew up in Indiana and Iowa fan with both my father and I going to Iowa. I will always remember as a kid having an Iowa 33 jersey and rooting/wanting a colts 21. The man was spark and cannon for those teams.

[@davidbell2814]

He made the defense better. They fed off of his energy that he brought to the game

[@conrailfan6277]

Bob was a bad MoFo for sure!! The Colts acquiring Booger McFarland was the icing on the cake!!!

[@buckeyecolt3468]

That is wild. They beat new england twice in the same season with 2 identical plays. Addai run up middle. Game ending int. I was in 8th grade and will never forget that season

[@Joshinable1]

I never Forgot this Game it hurt man i an Pat Fan But Congrats you guys Earned

[@WalterWhiteFootballSharing]

In fairness most teams esp those Colts run only 3 run plays 75% of the time, to leave time for complex pass playbooks. Inside Zone is the most used shotgun run call. Recently in 2022-23 run playbooks got much more diverse...and look more diverse with window dressing:j ust to run the same play. Kyle Shanahan and Lions Ben Johnson esp have fascinating all 22 on my All 22 playlists of 2022 and 2023 check channel.

[@smonKey0909]

Loved every min of it 2006💪💙🤍2009 broke my heart🤧

[@patrickgray5633]

55:12 the tension in the crowd was insane.

[@cranjismcbasketball1638]

Bears: we're gonna win the super bowl! Bob Sanders: THE HELL YOU WILL

[@GlobeofBeauty]

Heroes if you grew up in Indy. I would throw a football up in my room watching the games and pretend I was Dallas Clark or Joesph Addai

[@thebigguy8336]

If I owned a bar Marlin Jackson never pays for his drinks😂

[@THEYTHINKTHEYAREGODS]

Manning is and will always be the GOAT

[@WalterWhiteFootballSharing]

Just SO much more fun to watch then Brady. One nice thing about having my own channel is I get to delete the insufferable Patriots trolls, so my viewers don't have to engage with them.

[@Thegod_of_memes]

I used to have a book about the 2006 Colts season when I was younger

[@WalterWhiteFootballSharing]

As a kid I used to have one about 1990 NYG. The best way to relive a championship season is rewatching the games. 2006 Colts are easy to enjoy, old enough to not get blocked, new enough for HD Quality. Here's all the KZbin games kzbin.info/aero/PL8bnYSK5iFKmJKgMefeaGBiLu7diSqDpF I downloaded the good ones with Browser apps.

[@frank-bmtz]

“We’re cool yo.” Peyton Manning 2006

[@simonlorenzo4532]

Thank you very much

[@P0RKINS2]

23 teams in NFL History have allowed 170+ yards rushing per game on defense for a season. The 1st 22 Teams: 69 Wins 265 Losses (20.7% winning percentage) - The best W-L Record of the 22 teams was 6-10 The 23rd team: 2006 Indianapolis Colts 16 Wins 4 Losses (80% winning percentage) SB 41 Champions

[@WalterWhiteFootballSharing]

I love those stats about 2006 Colts. Manning achieved what nobody did until then. Drag a bad D to a SB win. Its ALWAYS the case the #1 Offense loses in Postseason. The Curse of MVP QBs: score 35 points per game (because your never in 2nd half clock killing mode) lose in Jan. Yeah LT won MVP with a historic season for a RB but Manning was the best QB of 06. Brady only won SBs when he wasn't MVP, because Bellichik is killing clock, the other team is down 17+ points, so he's not running a no huddle passing attack trying to regain lost leads. I didn't give him credit as being on the same level until 2017 when he made it to a SB with bad D. It showed me he COULD do it, would have done it but a strip sack ended it.

[@P0RKINS2]

@@WalterWhiteFootballSharing 2011 he proved he could as well. He could definitely have done it w/ weapons like Gronkowski or Moss but I dunno if he could’ve done it w/o them. He also had a Top 10 starting field position average in 14 of 21 seasons compared to just 2 in 17 seasons for Peyton.

[@patrickgray5633]

Be honest Manning was so great cause Indy asked him to do way too much. Sanders never played when he did very effective, & Freeney & Mathis were valuable when the Colts led in games. Indy was a extremely poorly built team by the Colts management & it just got worse when Manning left & Luck came in. Manning was the Wilt Chamberlain of his time the franchise asked him to do way too much.

[@WalterWhiteFootballSharing]

Check the sportsreference pages year by year, it was a well run team, with blocking, a run game and with top 10 defense, just not in 2006. With 2012 Grigson and Pagano, that wasnt at ALL the case, awful D, awful blocking, awful run game. They destroyed Andrew Luck with that awful OL and long developing plays, without a run. Manning was well protected, and usually didn't have to score 28-35 a game like he did in 2006. They closed out the Patriots in the championship running it down their throats and beat up on the Bears front in the superbowl with Tampa 2 light box built to rush the passer and blanket the deep.

[@DoubleHeader97]

I agree with your take on the Grigson era when it came to drafting and player personnel. Especially when he drafted Philip Dorsett, three months after that thrashing in the AFC Championship Game against the Patriots when the team need to focus on defense; then he backed up the by saying “it is weak to draft for need.” I would take the Polian era any day. He actually cared and drafted to the improve the Colts.

[@KeithHoward-bk3sz]

With the team they had and with Dungy coaching they should have won at least 3 super bowls

[@WalterWhiteFootballSharing]

Hey, KZbin's Colts historian has this WHOLE season, all the broadcast games up in one playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PL0b49llR3LXjKVSp3DG2FIFns4VDnDMUO Watch it all, 06 Manning, Marvin, Reggie, Dallas Clark, was special

[@WalterWhiteFootballSharing]

The Bears Colts SB NFL Films is here kzbin.info/www/bejne/baLHZGx3g9OhbJo its a decent close game and NFL films angles makes the conditions cooler. Run plays always look epic on NFL Films.

[@brockgeorge777]

The foibles and fumbles in the rain in SB 41 are exactly why I hate rain games. It turns into sloppy and often fluky football. All too often win by the lesser team though that’s not what ended up happening in this one.

[@WalterWhiteFootballSharing]

Many rain and snow games have been fun, but its a defensive advantage. Here's one of the best bad weather games, if u find 30 minutes: 2013 Eagles Lions. kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmqxmZt7g6qGjLM Chip Kelly's oregon scheme was very run oriented so that year's Eagles were designed for this

[@WalterWhiteFootballSharing]

This was the only rainy Superbowl, NFL wants good weather so nearly every SB has been in warm dry places and domes. South Florida is rainy but usually was dry on SBs. Manning refused to believe rain was coming because 'it doesn't rain on SBs' but they prepared hard esp snapping with hoses on Jeff Saturdays hands. As a dome team they were disadvantaged never practicing in rain, but that game they played bad weather ball beautifully, running for 170+ yards.

[@voicevitality7197]

Who wrote the copy for this? Jacksonville is not considered in the panhandle of Florida.

[@WalterWhiteFootballSharing]

Steve Sabol most likely.

[@michaelfalsia6062]

The Ravens game proved that the Colts were anything but soft. Lol. How stupid to call Indy soft. No way. You cannot make it in the NFL being soft!

[@WalterWhiteFootballSharing]

Yeah Dungy said "we were soft against the run" because their Dec run defense was absolute horrible. Take a look at Pro Football reference 2006 Colts. Last 5 games were 219, 375, 191, 150 rushing yards allowed. The Safety Bob Sanders was injured though. Playoffs: 44,83,93 rush yards allowed. The Ravens game was a slugfest they ran for 100 and held them to 83 rush yards.

[@GlobeofBeauty]

Heroes if you grew up in Indy. I would throw a football up in my room watching the games and pretend I was Dallas Clark or Joesph Addai