Any theories as to why Indy’s record at home is so bad? During our one season with Rivers in 2020, Indy was 6-2 at home. That’s the last season they had a winning record at home. Since then, they are 7-22 at LOS for a 31.8% winning percentage.
- 2021: 4-5
- 2022: 2-6
- 2023 (so far): 1-4
I get that the 2022 team was a disaster, and they wouldn’t have had a winning record anywhere they played, but this year’s team is much better and still 1-4 at home.
Personally, I don’t believe Indy will make the playoffs this year, and their play at home, coupled with the following two trends will be why:
- Steelers: We haven’t beaten them since 2008, and their strange dominance over us is approaching “curse” status. Throw out the records and rosters when these teams meet. For some cosmic reason, Pittsburgh owns them.
- Raiders: Colts and Raiders have played every year since Luck’s last season in 2018. For some strange reason, the visiting team has won every one of these games: Colts won on the road in 2018, 2020, and 2022. Raiders won on the road in 2019, 2021, 2023(?)
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Poor play at the quarterback position. After Rivers, we’ve had Wentz, Ryan, and Minshew (mostly).
The fans at the game don’t cheer, and at the first sign of losing the game they want to leave early “to beat the traffic”. That’s part of it.
We need to start pumping in crowd noise again
As a dome team, we’ve done well on the road
I personally think the crowd at LOS is too quiet. Maybe I just have bad luck, but I feel like I’m always surrounded by older folks who are just hanging out.
Fanbase has been unwilling to invest their emotional energy into stopgap QBs they have no belief in. But the longer it takes for the QB to have that moment where they hook the audience, the less leeway they have before the crowd buy-in is completely used up.
Losing our openers for however long that streak is has not helped the situation. Losing in Jacksonville every year for 8 years has not helped the situation.
Colts fans will be die hard again when they really believe in the product on the field. But they’ll expect you to prove it every first quarter until then. No matter how much I’ve tried to bring them along in my delusions from my seat over the years.