POSTMORTEM: A COLT IS ALSO A GUN THAT MISFIRES

I know, this late postmortem on Peyton/Colts is as lame as the way they lost to the Bolts.

Blame my lame lateness on computer problems.

Blame Colts' misfire on Peyton shooting the team in the foot? Hard to do with 3 TD passes and 400+ yds. passing.

But wassup with 3 yd. intercept in a tight jam inside red zone, and coming up with another goose egg down deep again?

Leaning forward would have made more sense, the first time, and the second time boggles football's fidelities.

Between Billy Volek's undisrupted backup offensive drive for the Volts, and Peyton failing, not once, but TWICE to score SOME points inside the red zone, there's a 21-point swing, that if Peyton & Co. catch half a break on, Colts win by 6 instead of losing by 4.

Watching Brady throw a similarly lame intercept against Chargers, in the red zone, I go, OK, obviously happens to the best, the Chargers have an opportunistic defense. BUT, Brady cashed in the next red zone trip, where Peyton Manning did not. THAT's what I don't understand -- at least on a par with the Colts D not disrupting Volek.

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 So Eli gets to carry the Manning mantle to the big party, and that's cool too. The Giants this year are like the Steelers were a few seasons back, up and down but hard-nose gelling at just the right playoff time.

Hard to root against the Pats' outlandish 18-0 record, tho'. They just deserve the big prize more than a team that lost 5 times. Expect 19-0, with Eli's Giants putting up another good fight.