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The Colts entered the 2015 season as the defending AFC South champions after compiling an 11–5 record before falling to the New England Patriots in a controversial AFC Championship game matchup. After a week 8 loss to the Carolina Panthers , the Colts fired offensive coordinator Pep Hamilton and elevated associate head coach Rob Chudzinski to ...
This division championship was the first for the team in Indianapolis and the first for the Colts organization since 1977. The team made the playoffs for the first time in Indianapolis and faced the Cleveland Browns at Cleveland Stadium , where they lost 38–21 to end an impressive season.
After the Colts owner Jim Irsay hired Tony Dungy in 2002, [7] the Colts made the playoffs for nine straight seasons. They won five straight AFC South titles from 2003 to 2007 and had seven consecutive seasons of 12 or more victories from 2003 to 2009, the first time that has been achieved in the NFL's 90-year history. [8]
Following the two championships in 1958 and 1959, the Colts did not return to the NFL Championship for four seasons and replaced the head coach Ewbank with the young Don Shula in 1963. [14] In Shula's second season the Colts compiled a 12–2 record, but lost to the Cleveland Browns in the NFL Championship 27–0.
The Colts held the Broncos, who finished the season with the NFL's second-highest scoring offense, to 288 total yards and just two field goals in the final 55 minutes and prevailed 24–13 to advance to their first AFC Championship Game since the 2009 season. During the regular season, Denver averaged 35 points per game at home, and had ...
0–9. 2002 Tennessee Titans season; 2003 Indianapolis Colts season; 2004 Indianapolis Colts season; 2005 Indianapolis Colts season; 2006 Indianapolis Colts season
The Colts–Patriots rivalry is a National Football League (NFL) rivalry between the Indianapolis Colts and New England Patriots.. As the Colts play in the AFC South and the Patriots are in the AFC East, the two teams do not play every year; instead, they play at least once every three years and at least once every six seasons at each team's home stadium due to the NFL's rotating division ...
With Unitas under center the Colts also won 2 NFL Championships and a Super Bowl. In the final game of the 1968 preseason, the muscles in Unitas' arm were torn when he was hit by a member of the Dallas Cowboys defense. The Colts would turn to backup quarterback Earl Morrall to lead the offense. The Colts marched to a league-best 13–1 record ...