Can Colts, Saints remain undefeated?
13-0, that’s what both teams are gunning for this Sunday.
Yes, the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints are still undefeated at this point of the 2009 NFL football season. They have the Denver Broncos and the Atlanta Falcons respectively, can they come out of Week 14 still perfect?
First, the Indianapolis Colts. Unlike the Saints, the Colts have been here before, 12-0 with only four more games to play in the season. In fact, the Colts have been so dominant that they have this massive 21-game winning streak going for them when they take on the Denver Broncos. 21 straight wins, that’s incredible.
Can they beat the Denver Broncos this Sunday to remain perfect? The Colts would sure love to beat the Broncos alright, but their main concern is to clinch home field advantage throughout the playoffs. They could care less about a perfect season.
”Being 12-0 is always a good thing,” Colts running back Joseph Addai said. ”I think the winning streak builds confidence. We’ve seen too many teams that go undefeated and toward the end of the season they really don’t make it all the way to the Super Bowl title.”
If Peyton Manning and the Colts beat Denver on Sunday for their record-setting 22nd consecutive regular season victory, they will also clinch the AFC’s top seed and home field advantage throughout the playoffs. And that is more important to these guys than making the 1972 Dolphins cry.
A win over the Broncos (8-4) would make the Colts 13-0. San Diego (9-3) and Cincinnati (9-3) are the only other AFC teams who can reach 13 wins, but they still play each other. The winner of that game would lose a tiebreaker to Indianapolis at 13-3 based on common opponents.
As far as the New Orleans Saints are concerned, they almost blew away their perfect season against the Washington Redskins last Sunday. Luckily, the Saints got lucky again to pull off a 33-30 squeaker. Yup, the Saints can’t seem to lose these days.
With the victory, the Saints clinched the NFC South title while becoming one of only eight teams in NFL history to start 12-0. They are poised to stay unscathed versus the Atlanta Falcons as they will continue to rely on the services of Drew Brees, who hit on 35 of 49 passes for 419 yards with two TDs and one interception in their last game.
Drew Brees unloaded TD passes of 53 and 40 yards to Robert Meachem and Marques Colston, respectively, and also threw a 29-yarder to Meachem, who had career highs in catches (eight) and receiving yards (142).
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