This is the Whirlwind Tour, cause truth be told, I’m trying to figure out PHP coding, and it’s hard, so I ain’t got much time.

The Colts’ run defense sucks. I mean, really, really bad. You may think it’s drastically improved and the Chiefs game is proof; you may be a fool. What happened there was this intricate process:

1. Colts put all 26 players, five assistant coaches, two waterboys and six peanut vendors in the box.

2. Chiefs run continually up the middle, as though coached by a Tecmo Bowl player who just hits Down + A for every play. Chiefs don’t gain any yards.

3. At halftime, Dr. Herman Edwards, Ph.D., realizing an offensive adjustment would require critical thinking and so is completely out of the questions, tells his offense that they need to quit playing like sissies and start being real men and pushing the Colts around out there.

4. Dr. Edwards continues hitting Down + A for every play throughout the second half.

5. On the very rare occasions when allowed to try and pass, Trent Green does his impression of Ben Roethlisberger fifteen minutes after a motorcycle crash.

Let’s be thoroughly clear here: The crap the Colts skated past the Chiefs with ain’t gonna fly against the best team in football. The Ravens don’t run the ball very well at all — Jamal Lewis just can’t move anymore — but they’ll move it at will against the Colts, on the ground and through the air.

As for Princess Peyton, I’ve already analyzed him plenty, so let’s keep it short here: Princess Peyton can’t stand being hit by defenders. It throws him off-kilter, especially when it happens a few times in a row; that frustrates him and makes him unravel mentally (see: Steelers, 2005; Patriots, 2004; Patriots, 2003.) He was jittery last week against the Chiefs, as Collinsworth correctly noted, and he’ll be even more so against the Ravens. The Ravens defense is a relentless swarm of pain. They will hit you, and then hit you again, and then hit you some more. The Colts offense is not going to stand up to this. Princess Peyton will make some nice throws and score a TD or two, but faced with the pressure of being well behind by the second half, he’ll fall apart as usual.

Ravens 26, Colts 21.