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Colts-Panthers preview: Indy out to end skid

Colts head coach Chuck Pagano sums up the Monday Night Football challenge at unbeaten Carolina succinctly: 'We need a win, period.'

After back-to-back home losses, the Indianapolis Colts will try to avoid losing a third consecutive game for the first time in head coach Chuck Pagano’s four seasons.

That will likely require the Colts’ best effort of the season on Monday Night Football, considering they’re touchdown underdogs at the unbeaten Carolina Panthers (6-0), who are enjoying the best start in the franchise’s 21-year history.

“These guys will respond,” Pagano said Friday. “They always have.