{"id":653842,"date":"2026-01-04T18:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T18:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/653842\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T18:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T18:11:14","slug":"week-18-colts-vs-texans-game-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/653842\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 18 Colts vs. Texans Game discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stampedeblue.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indianapolis Colts<\/a> are on the road to take on the Houston Texans in week 18 of the 2025 season, kickoff is at 1:00 p.m. EST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Well this is it. The season ends today. The season didn\u2019t go the way anyone wanted it to, but there were plenty of highs to go along with even more lows. We saw some really wild things this season, Daniel Jones beat out Anthony Richardson for the starting quarterback job, something that was unconscionable at the time, only for Jones to morph into the kind of quarterback Indy had been searching for since Andrew Luck retired. We had more than half a season of \u201cIndiana Jones\u201d and multiple legitimate MVP candidates in Jones and Jonathan Taylor. We saw the team make the kind of blockbuster trade so many Colts fans regularly clamored for during Chris Ballard\u2019s 9 year reign as general manager. We saw Jones play through a broken leg. And then we saw Jones tear his Achilles tendon. We all watched in stunned amazement as a 44 year old Philip Rivers came out of retirement, hoping to save the season. We saw Rivers play better than anyone could have expected but still fall short. We saw so many players excel and a great many fail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This doesn\u2019t feel like a single season, 2025 has felt like a football lifetime. And today that life comes to it\u2019s end. It will be eight long months before we get to watch the Colts play football and then another month before the games will mean anything.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This isn\u2019t the game we hoped the Colts would be playing in a few months ago, but it\u2019s the game we\u2019re getting. Try to enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">And while I NEVER thought I would say this, at least we can all watch the seemingly dominant Indiana Hoosiers play for a championship for the rest of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This is your week eighteen open thread so hang out here, chat, celebrate, commiserate, and argue in the comments! Go wild (within reason)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Indianapolis Colts are on the road to take on the Houston Texans in week 18 of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[2005,7,62270,2004,392,84598,2381,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-653842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-colts","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-game-threads","11":"tag-indianapolis","12":"tag-indianapolis-colts","13":"tag-indianapolis-colts-discussion","14":"tag-indianapoliscolts","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115838182061219551","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653842","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=653842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}