The National Football League resumes yet another season. This season marks the 101st of its nature, but a lot has changed since last year and most certainly a lot has changed since 1920 when the first season began. As a matter of fact, just between last season and this season, Tom Brady retired and promptly unretired. But, that is the past, the future and this coming season hopefully will be much more interesting.
The NFL has teams back in full capacity for the first time in over three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This could lead to a revitalized spark in the live game feel and even in how it feels to watch the game at home on the TV, those crowds can get electric in places like Arrowhead where the sound level is above 100 decibels. However, the stadium some look forward to experiencing the most is Lucas Oil Stadium, home of our Colts.
The Colts have a lot to look forward to after a very climatic offseason. For example, they got a new Quarterback after Carson Wentz’s disappointing season last year, where he failed to even lead the Colts to a playoff berth, despite having one of the top RBs statistically in Jonathan Taylor and an above-average defense. The new QB, Matt Ryan, isn’t any slouch; however, he has previously led the Atlanta Falcons to a Super Bowl Appearance in 2018 and is top ten all-time in passing yards and touchdowns in the league making him a near surefire Hall of Famer. The acquisition of Ryan boosted the Colts odds of making the Super Bowl to +2000 and brought their projected win total up to 10 wins.
However, the Colts weren’t the only ones making big offseason moves with multiple other teams in the AFC, the conference the Colts play in, also getting significantly better this past offseason and gearing up for a potential playoff run.
Either way, playoffs or not, it should be an exciting season for the Colts with a lot of home games to look forward to and even more exciting games in general around the NFL.