WESTFIELD – Only the noise can stop them, but you don’t expect the Indianapolis Colts to start listening now. Do you?
A year ago the noise was different, uglier. The Colts entered the 2018 season with plenty of expectations, all of them bad. Their quarterback was injured. Their coaching staff was new, all the key pieces — the head man, the coordinators — promoted to positions they’d never held. Their first two draft picks were a guard and a small-school linebacker.
That new head coach, Frank Reich, heard the noise entering 2018 training camp and embraced it, waving for his players a card bearing the No.