Keys to the Game: Colts vs. Texans Week 15

Thomas J. Russo-USA TODAY Sports Describing a game as “key” this late in the season is cliché. Any team who hasn’t clinched a playoff berth, and arguably any that hasn’t clinched home-field advantage in the playoffs, is still playing “key” games. This fact makes it no less accurate to describe this afternoon’s match-up between the Indianapolis Colts and Houston Texans as a “key” game for the Colts.

Indianapolis lost control of its destiny in the AFC South by dropping a huge home game against the Tennessee Titans a few weeks ago — thanks in part to COIVD-19. It is now in a position to simply keep winning games down the stretch and look for the Titans to lose. If they win-out and Tennessee…