Colts' Taylor repents for gaffe with 218-yard day

INDIANAPOLIS -- Jonathan Taylor made a lightning-quick jump trim done the spread and saw thing but daylight ahead.

Once the Indianapolis Colts moving backmost reached the extremity line, immoderate 65 yards later, his tally was still not complete. Taylor kept going, moving into the passageway that leads to the Colts' locker room successful the southwest area of Lucas Oil Stadium. It was Taylor's measurement of sending a message: This time, he would clasp onto the shot aft arriving to the extremity area - thing he did not do a week ago.

Taylor reached the extremity area 2 much times connected Sunday, including connected a 70-yard scoring run, during his 218-yard capacity successful the Colts' historical 38-30 triumph complete the Tennessee Titans. Indianapolis' discourtesy dominated the statement of scrimmage, rushing for a franchise grounds 335 yards successful a triumph that kept the team's faint playoff hopes alive. The Colts surpassed the erstwhile precocious established successful 1956, astir 3 decades earlier the franchise near Baltimore for the Midwest successful 1984.

It was Taylor's 2nd profession 200-yard capacity down only his career-high 253-yard crippled successful the last week of the 2020 season. The capacity came connected the heels of past Sunday's crippled successful which Taylor committed a costly miscue, dropping the shot prematurely arsenic he crossed the extremity statement connected a would-be 41-yard tally that could've fixed Indianapolis a two-touchdown lead.

The Colts went connected to suffer the captious matchup, dealing a terrible rustle to their playoff hopes. Taylor wouldn't make the correction again this week.

"I had already predetermined successful my mind that adjacent time, I'm going each the measurement successful the tunnel," Taylor said Sunday.

In fact, Taylor approached the full business pinch levity. He and backup moving backmost Tyler Goodson planned an full spot up of the game. After Taylor emerged from the tunnel, Goodson ran up to him and playfully tried to portion the shot away, pinch Taylor keeping a tight grip.

"Just trolling, making the crowd laughter a small bit," Goodson said.

In reality, location was thing funny astir the measurement the Colts pushed the Titans around. Tennessee allowed the astir rushing yards of immoderate squad this play and the second-most successful Titans/Oilers franchise history. The Colts made nary pretense astir their intentions, either, astatine 1 constituent moving connected 12 consecutive plays complete the span of 3 possessions successful the 2nd quarter.

"That's benignant of the breathtaking part," Taylor said "It's benignant of erstwhile you commencement imposing your will, establishing that statement of scrimmage. Those are the types of shot games arsenic a moving backmost ... you love."

Tight extremity Mo Alie-Cox added: "By the extremity of the game... we were still getting 5 yards a pop. They still couldn't really extremity it. They were calling it, but they couldn't do thing astir it."

Then, Alie-Cox relayed a communicative that unfolded earlier a peculiar play.

"It's hilarious," he said. "One time, they were like, 'It's a screen. Boom.' And past 1 of their [defensive] ends was like, 'Man, they're astir to springiness it to Jonathan Taylor. He's astir tally for 300 [yards] connected us.' Once he said that, I was like, 'Yeah, we sewage him.'"

In ray of the rushing success, Colts backmost Anthony Richardson had a ray workload from the pocket. He attempted conscionable 11 walk attempts, completing 7 for 131 yards. But Richardson was a portion of the rushing bonanza, moving for a career-high 70 yards.

Now, the Colts look to decorativeness pinch wins complete the New York Giants and Jaguars successful their remaining 2 games, on pinch hoping galore different dominoes autumn their measurement successful their bid to make the postseason.