The Indianapolis Colts are on the road to take on the Tennessee Titans in week 3 of the 2025 season, kickoff is at 1:00 p.m. EST.
The 2025 Indianapolis Colts, led by Daniel Jones at quarterback, have accomplished something the Andrew Luck Colts never did: they have started their season 2-0. And they’ve done so on the back of an offense that is unbelievably efficient. Through two games the team has yet to punt. The NFL Twitter account posted this video to mark the accomplishment:
While the Colts offense is reaching Manning-level heights (in a very different way) the defense came back to Earth a bit after a dominant week one performance. Last week I said this about the defense going into their matchup with the Denver Broncos:
… they’re without Charvarius Ward (concussion) and Laiatu Latu (hamstring). They also lost cornerback Jaylon Jones (hamstring) who is now on injured reserve. While the Broncos don’t have the receiving corps of the Dolphins the Indy secondary is seriously depleted. It will be interesting to see if Lou Anarumo can do enough to confuse second year quarterback, Bo Nix, who looked bad in week one.
Nix played well and moved the ball consistently against the Indy defense. Xavien Howard had a rough day in coverage, though he was fine most of the day on a single drive he was targeted and flagged repeatedly. Howard will likely be fine as the teams second cornerback but things will probably be rocky if Charvarius Ward misses more time this year. The pass rush was almost completely non-existent in week two.
This week, if we don’t see the pass-rush improve, greatly, against an awful and beat up Titans offensive line, it is absolutely time to worry. If Indy wins this week without a good pass-rush (they should win) and splits their next four games (Rams, Raiders, Cardinals, Chargers) they will be sitting at 5-2 and at that point Chris Ballard should feel confident in exploring the trade market for teams who might be looking to offload talent for draft pick assets before the November 4th deadline. For the first time in 9 years of Chris Ballard’s tenure, it might make sense for the Colts to be buyers at the deadline. But they have to make it though this weeks game before they can even think about the future.
Rookie quarterback Cam Ward has been up and down to start his career. In week one he completed just under 42% of his passes for 112 yards, 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions. In week two he completed just under 58% of his passes for 175 yards, one touchdown and zero interceptions. He has been sacked 11 times. He has rushed 4 times, gaining 8 yards and has fumbled once in each game he’s played. To be fair to Ward he doesn’t have much help around him, the Titans receivers aren’t great, their running back is Tony Pollard and their tight ends are Chig Okonkwo and rookie Gunnar Helm. I won’t even get into their offensive line, which is bad when healthy and will be down two starters today.
Defensively the Titans are solid. I won’t say that they’re good on defense but it is absolutely the strength of their team, even though they’re giving up 150 rushing yards per game. The last time I looked Jonathan Taylor’s rushing yardage over/under was around 90.5 yards and the only way I don’t see him going over that mark is if the Colts break this game open and they hand the ball to DJ Giddens a lot to save Taylor in a blowout. If I were a betting man I would sprinkle a little cash on both Giddens and Taylor to go over their yardage mark today.
Prediction:
Titans: 17
Colts: 33
As always, go Colts.
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