Outsider’s View: Indianapolis Colts – Wild Card Round

Just to give you a sense of what the afternoon on the blog will look like, we’ll be posting up some more items.  We’ll try to chat / live-blog the evening’s proceedings, so stay tuned for that.  Also, please see the link below to the Football Outsider’s preview, which is very good. I know some of you are fond of Football Outsiders, (as am I) so once the season gets underway and trends start developing, looking at an opponent’s rankings on Football Outsiders helps to give fans some perspective. (As a heads up, negative percentages are good on defense, bad on offense & specials) So it all comes back to this.  After foiling his plans for a Super Bowl trip, Rex and Tannenbaum huddled, picking the players they wanted to shore up the defensive secondary, making opposing elite QBs rue the day they went away from Darrelle Revis.  This was the plan that brought Antonio Cromartie to town, jettisoned Kerry Rhodes, and added players like Kyle Wilson and Brodney Pool.  Rex wanted to se...