NFL Scores Week 1: Colts vs. Texans, Signs Indy Won't Win a Game in 2011

The Indianapolis Colts won 10 games and the AFC South title last year almost exclusively on the strength of a 6-2 home record and a Peyton Manning directed offense.

So to see the Colts getting mashed at home with Manning out for the day and, according to some reports, perhaps out for the year, questions immediately arise.

Will the Colts go winless? You would think not, a team has to be seriously terrible to do that, but it’s not clear if the Colts are going to be particularly competitive. More than that, they look like a team that others will run roughshod over.

The Houston Texans—a team that had lost nine of its last 11 games to the Colts—jumped up and down on the Colts’ carcass in the first half en route to a 34-0 deficit.

It's going to be a long year in Indianapolis without Manning.

The Colts couldn’t put much pressure on Texans’ quarterback Matt Schaub and the defensive secondary seemed unable to handle his receivers, particularly Andre Johnson, who got out of the gate with six catches for 89 yards.

Indy did better against the run, but if a team has trouble stopping a so-so Houston team then that doesn’t bode well for the 2011-12 season.

Kerry Collins, who is the prototype of a backup quarterback, was better after a shaky first quarter, but Colts fans can’t have that much enthusiasm for the Indianapolis offense under his direction.