Week 12 Colts Offensive Rankings and Analysis: Yeah, that works.

Each week during the season, I will be walking through the data from the previous Colts game and analyzing the numbers to form a sort of “what happened” narrative, as well as comparing the Colts against all other teams in the league. For a glossary of the stats listed, reference Season Stats. Thanks to Pro Football Reference, NFL.com, Football Outsiders,and the nflFastR project for being awesome sources of weekly data.

This drive chart encapsulates what I felt when watching this game. The Colts offense was either driving down the field and scoring or executing drives that lost yardage.

This was a run heavy game, so it limited the number of overall drives. With only 8 drives, 20 first downs is…