{"id":404440,"date":"2025-09-28T20:08:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T20:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/404440\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T20:08:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T20:08:24","slug":"week-4-colts-vs-rams-game-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/404440\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 4 Colts vs. Rams Game Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Indianapolis Colts<\/a>\u00a0are on the road to take on the Los Angeles Rams in week 4 of the 2025 season, kickoff is at 4:05 p.m. EST.<\/p>\n

At this point Colts fans have read some version of \u201cfor the first time since\u201d hundreds if not thousands of times and I\u2019m going to add another: For the first time since I\u2019ve been writing for Stampede Blue, the team is 3-0 and the offense looks dominant. Daniel Jones is playing well and the offensive roster assembled by Chris Ballard and his staff is making the quarterback\u2019s job as easy as any starting quarterback in the NFL through three weeks. Defensively it\u2019s more difficult to judge but this week T. Troy Russell told us the numbers say they\u2019re right around (maybe a touch below) average through three games.<\/a><\/p>\n

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And that feels right. The Colts were able to sack Cam Ward four times a week ago but the Edge rushers weren\u2019t the ones making any sort of a real impact. If this Indy defense is going to be better than maybe a touch below average Laiatu Latu needs to find his grove as the \u201cbest ****** rusher in the draft\u201d sooner than later. This week the Colts will get back Charvarius \u201cMooney\u201d Ward but they will be without Kenny Moore who is recovering from an Achilles injury that is not season ending. In my opinion Moore should be placed on IR and allowed to recover well beyond the point he\u2019s cleared by the medical staff. At his age an Achilles injury could effectively end his career and the team has elevated long time Lou Anarumo, nickelback Mike Hilton for today\u2019s game. If you\u2019re keeping track at home the Colts are starting Mooney Ward, Xaiven Howard and Mike Hilton at corner. Which is an ELITE CB room\u2026 in 2022. Ward is still playing well and the team hopes Howard continues to shake off rust after sitting out all of 2024. Hilton was on the market and was likely waiting for the right opportunity to play this season and a 3-0 team running a system that he has excelled in with a DC that used him so well during the peak of his career seems like a good opportunity to me. So we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n

The Rams will be the Colts\u2019 biggest test so far. Matt Stafford isn\u2019t Tua, Nix or Ward. Stafford is a 17 year, Super Bowl winning veteran. Uncle Lou is going to have to reach pretty far into his bag of tricks to confuse someone like Stafford and frankly, I\u2019m not sure he can. And even if he does, the pass rush has to get home, the backers have to cover and the DB\u2019s have to all execute and they all have to do it on every play, all day or Stafford will make them pay. Can they do it? Of course, they\u2019re professional football players. They have the ability. Will they do it? Outside of a week one dismantling of a bad Dolphins team, they haven\u2019t put together a complete game in their other two outings. So, we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n

Ultimately I see this one being pretty high scoring, at least I hope it is because I don\u2019t see Indy coming away with a win if they can\u2019t score in bunches this week. Which may be more difficult considering they\u2019ll be missing guard Matt Concalves and receiver Alec Pierce. This will be Indy\u2019s toughest test and we might witness their first loss today.<\/p>\n

But if we don\u2019t\u2026 if they win it, I\u2019m going to be insufferable.<\/p>\n

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Prediction:<\/p>\n

Rams: 40<\/p>\n

Colts: 44<\/p>\n

As always, go Colts.<\/p>\n

RELATED<\/p>\n

Where to Watch Colts vs. Rams for week 4<\/a><\/p>\n

Week 4 Injury Report<\/a><\/p>\n

Week 4 Players to Watch<\/a><\/p>\n

T. Troy Russell tells us about the State of the Defense<\/a><\/p>\n

This is your week four open thread so hang out here, chat, celebrate, commiserate, and argue in the comments! Go wild (within reason)!<\/p>\n

Go Colts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Indianapolis Colts\u00a0are on the road to take on the Los Angeles Rams in week 4 of the 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[24804,4994,127,2005,2772,7,2004,392,2381,26555,667,58,18243,10348,69741,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-404440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-achilles-injury","9":"tag-alec-pierce","10":"tag-cam-ward","11":"tag-colts","12":"tag-daniel-jones","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-indianapolis","15":"tag-indianapolis-colts","16":"tag-indianapoliscolts","17":"tag-kenny-moore","18":"tag-laiatu-latu","19":"tag-los-angeles-rams","20":"tag-matt-stafford","21":"tag-mike-hilton","22":"tag-mooney-ward","23":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115283735814573397","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}