Another week Matthias Farley Jersey , another disappointing loss. divisional race, but also not providing much in the way of hope that they have what it takes to right the ship. Let’s take a look at some of the winners and losers from this week’s game against the New York Jets.WinnersAndrew LuckLet’s take a minute to appreciate how good Andrew Luck has been. The guy is back from what could have been a career ending shoulder injury, and he is absolutely slinging the ball. He has been working with a largely practice squad-quality wide receiver group, and has been operating behind a revolving door of offensive linemen, but he has still looked incredible. No running game? Not a problem. Luck will just hoist the team on his surgically repaired shoulders and carry them downfield. He hasn’t been able to will them to wins this season, it’s is true. However, it isn’t hard to imagine what he could do with a decent or better skill position group on offense. Luck finished this game 23 of 43 for 301 yards, no sacks, 3 interceptions, and 4 touchdowns. Of those three picks, Luck only deserves credit for 1, as two came off bobbled passes. As usual, his receivers dropped more than a handful of passes that would have further improved on those numbers. Andrew Luck is a treasure and Colts fans are fortunate to be able to watch such a long run of stellar quarterback play.Malik HookerRobert Deutsch-USA TODAY SportsThere have been a lot of questions about whether Malik Hooker is anywhere near getting back to his old self. So many in fact, that Zach Hicks did an entire breakdown of his production this year. Even without the benefit of the All-22 coaches film, you can see how impressive his first interception of the season is. It comes on a deep ball from Darnold down the left sideline, and it is badly underthrown. However, Hooker has to cover a ton of ground to get to the ball. With many safeties, this pass likely goes incomplete. This kind of play is big because this defense will thrive down the stretch on the ability to create turnovers. It was good to see Hooker have that kind of impact early in the game. Darius LeonardDespite working through an ankle injury, Darius Leonard had another productive day, racking up 9 tackles and a forced fumble that was recovered by the Colts. Leonard missed against the Patriots, but even when he is likely playing at less than 100% Authentic Nate Hairston Jersey , the rookie linebacker finds himself consistently making an impact on the field. Any time the defense gives up 42 points they deserve to have any praise they’re given be taken with an extra-large grain of salt. The Jets rushed for more than 100 yards and passed for 280. The Colts defense wasn’t able to get off the field consistently, and Leonard deserves his share of blame for his part in the lopsided time of possession. However, on the whole he has been a positive part of the defense and continued to make a case that he deserves to be the front runner for the Defensive Rookie of the Year. Marlon MackHis first big contribution to this game was a bit of a black mark. The bobbled catch resulted in a pick for Luck, but he proved to be by far the most effective running weapon the Colts have had all season long. If he can continue to generate this kind of production on the ground and pair it with the abilities of guys like Nyheim Hines and Robert Turbin, it will give the Colts a big lift. All told, Mack had 89 yards on 12 attempts, despite the team trailing most of the game. That is the kind of production Frank Reich would be thrilled to get out of him going forward.Honorable Mention: Eric Ebron, who has 6 TDs through 6 weeks, tied for best in the NFL in receiving TDs.LosersChester RogersRobert Deutsch-USA TODAY SportsIt seemed like every time the Colts had the ball at least one play involved a pass bouncing off Chester Rogers’ chest. It wasn’t quite as bad as that, but it was close. The Colts’ very first play was a Rogers drop which would have gotten them an immediate first down. There are simply too many instances of him missing on catches they have to have. Contrary to Frank Reich’s assertion that these are taking place on “contested catches,” the ones I kept seeing were as open as you can hope to be in most NFL games. It seems like the catches being contested is less the problem, and Chester Rogers not being an NFL caliber talent is more the issue. Is Rogers capable of making big and impressive plays? Sure. However, what makes you a good quality NFL receiver is the ability to be consistent. Running your routes well, getting separation, and making the catch are all things you have to do with consistency to succeed at this level, and Rogers so far has proven that he can only be expected to provide those things in flashes, not with any amount of consistency.Robert TurbinRobert Deutsch-USA TODAY SportsIn his second game coming off suspension, many thought we might see an increase in involvement for Robert Turbin. Instead, we got 4 carries for 10 yards and a lost fumble. For a Colts offense that desperately needs to put a running game together, this was a problem. They needed a spark from Turbin upon his return, but instead he coughed up a fumble. Even worse, his fumble came on a possession directly after the Colts had gotten a defensive stop and gave a short field to the Jets offense which lead to points.Pass coverageThe cornerbacks for the Colts looked outclassed all day by the Jets and Sam Darnold. He abused them with seam routes consistently and when they matched up in man coverage they got picked on. There were communication issues and simply a couple instances of blown coverage. The linebackers didn’t look much better. Seam routes and slants were very effective to move the Jets’ offense up and down the field. Some of this is pretty common for this defensive scheme. The bend-don’t-break mentality is a familiar one to Colts fans. Even without the mental errors you have some tendency to give up yards. The problem is that this defense forgot about the not breaking part. Too many times they allowed the Jets to get into position to kick field goals—they had 7 on the day Youth Quincy Wilson Jersey , 1 shy of the league record. That is a problem, and it started with the weakness against the pass. Marcus JohnsonJohnson is here as a loser for a different reason than many of the others on this list. He had 2 catches on 3 targets and 52 total yards. Unfortunately, one of those catches resulted in an egregious no-call in which the Jets defender clearly tackled him well out of bounds and the result was an injury that could damage his long-term prospects as a part of a team that needs anyone possible to step up at the wide receiver position. This killed me, because not only did it hurt the Colts in the moment, but the play resulted in Johnson’s injury. He was definitely a loser in this game, though it wasn’t his fault. This season has not been a perfect one by a long stretch. The Colts have suffered a number of injuries and lost out on games it seems they should have won. They sit at 3-5, and through the first half of their season they faced the toughest stretch of their schedule. Despite the humbling start, Colts fans have been eerily confident in the direction of the team. So much so, that they have stood in stark contrast to the other fan bases of the AFC South. Those fan bases have seen their confidence erode from beneath them as their teams disappoint through their performance, due to injury, or in the Texans’ case, show just how close to the edge of the cliff they are operating.Throughout all this, Colts fans have had a relatively flat and confident air about them. Why? Because they entered this season looking for marked improvement. The organization set realistic expectations for their fans and the primary measuring stick for this season’s success was always going to be if they managed to fix some issues that have existed before.That has clearly been the case. The Colts’ offensive line with the additions of Quenton Nelson and Braden Smith has gone from a complete liability to a strength of the offense in a season. The linebacker group looks dramatically better with Darius Leonard and a healthy Anthony Walker. The running backs with the emergence of Marlon Mack and the contributions of Nyheim Hines and Jordan Wilkins look set to play a pivotal role in the offense for years to come. Oh, and the tight ends might be the most effective and well used tight end group in the league, with Eric Ebron leading the way and having a career year. Are there other holes? Definitely. The secondary still needs work, the team needs more wide receivers to aid T.Y. Hilton, and they need more from their defensive line, though that has also seen measurable improvement. More than that, this team hasn’t simply rolled over and been beaten down like they were sometimes in the past. Their worst performance of the season came against the Patriots, but it also featured largely the 4th string defense due to an absurd number of injuries both before and during the game. Because of this, fans have remained confident despite underwhelming results. Now, however http://www.coltsauthorizedshops.com/authentic-clayton-geathers-jersey , fans have a different reason to be confident. The AFC South has been a bit of a dumpster fire this season. The rest of the AFC hasn’t been all that much better. The playoff race remains absolutely wide open with half the season to go. What’s more, the Colts have a much more favorable stretch in their schedule, and are reaching their healthiest point as a team so far in the season. All this has come to a head to leave Colts fans feeling pretty good as they prepare for the arrival of the Jaguars this Sunday. Make no mistake, this is not a rubber stamp W for the Colts. This Jaguars team has all the elements needed to thump most of the AFC. However, anyone who has ever attempted to bake before knows that just because you have all the ingredients doesn’t mean you can make something incredible.Last season everything worked for them. This season it seems that the coaches forgot to grease the pan, set the oven too hot, and didn’t hear the timer when it went off. It has been a bit of a disaster. However, those pieces are still there, and the team has had a bye week to rest. It is completely possible that they will come out of their bye week looking more like we expected them to this offseason.Still, the fact that a team starting so much young talent as well as having so many key contributions from their first and second year players is able to look at the back half of their schedule and see a very realistic playoff berth has buoyed Colts fans’ confidence to the highest point it has been all season. This week’s FanPulse survey shows a 94% confident feeling about the direction the team is going, and a win Sunday would only strengthen that feeling.Elsewhere around the division, fans are not feeling so confident. The Texans have looked like a team that could get hot and make a real run if they can stay healthy, but that hasn’t stopped Texans fans from limited expectations. Just 53% feel good about the team going forward.The Titans got a win this week as well, but given their many issues and some of the games ahead for them, fan expectations remain low at just 45%.The Jaguars have fallen the farthest. Through week 5, Jags fans remained very sure their team could replicate its prior success. Since then, as the team has stumbled, the wheels have fallen off for most fans and they’ve seen their confidence plummet to just 12%. The Colts have a chance to show that they are an improved team and that fans were right to place confidence in their direction. If they can have a strong back half of their season, they might be able to show that the fruits of that progress are ripening earlier than many of us thought they could.If you’d like to participate in Stampede Blue’s FanPulse survey, you can sign up to do so here.