Colts lose to Giants, eliminated from playoff contention
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The Colts lost on the road to the Giants, 45-33.
The Colts went down 7-3 and never regained the lead. They cut it to a one score game twice in the second half but were never ablet to tie or take the lead.
Their best chance came with just under 11 minutes remining in the 4th quarter. The Colts scored a touchdown to make it a 28-26 game. On the two-point conversion try, Jonathan Taylor dropped a designed lateral from Michael Pittman Jr. and the attempt failed.
The Colts defense was gashed by Drew Lock, Malik Nabers, and the Giants offense. Lock threw for four touchdowns and ran for one.
“Obviously we got to play a complete game,” Colts head coach Shane Steichen said. “We haven’t done it all year. We all got to be on the same page, weekly, everything we do it’s got to be raised because to go out there like that is not good enough.”
“When you’re playing in an elimination scenario, the level of execution, the level of attention to detail, your intensity, everything has to raise a level,” linebacker Zaire Franklin said. “I just felt like we as a team did not raise our level today.”
With the loss, the Colts have been eliminated from the playoffs. The Colts have now missed the playoffs in four straight seasons.
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