Come on now...

You can't honestly say that, right? I mean, did you see the game or just the score? I know Louisville often doesn't get Titan games.

If I saw just the score, I would be making the same claims as you. The fact is, the Titans dominated this game completely until there was a situation for short yardage--and that's where they messed up. Uninspired play calling did them in. If you saw this game, you cannot deny it.

And if revenge is a factor, here's a case of where it isn't, because the Colts had won 2 games previously, and hence, the Titans should have been in full revenge mode, taking their revenge out on the Colts, and the score would have been reversed. And sure, why not give you another example just one week ago--the Colts lost 2 games to the Patriots including the AFC Championship and still couldn't beat them on week 1 of this season.

Have you ever seen Mystery Men, the not-all-that-entertaining superhero comedy starring Ben Stiller? He's this hero called Mr. Furious, where apparently his power is to get into a huge rage. Obviously, since he has no other powers than that, he just makes a big fool of himself trying to kill bad guys. That's what I think of when I hear anyone from sports analysists to first-time callers mention this emotional tool.

The Colts won this game because they had a better plan, especially in the second half, and executed it better. The Titans lost because their plan was great but had a deadly fault. The fact that the offense played this uninspired, non-playaction game while Chris Brown was able to run all over the place is downright criminal. You know why the Colts had a better plan? The use of that playaction pass. They did it almost every play, and the Titans D couldn't handle it, and then just at the right time, they'd give it to Edge and he'd run gangbusters because the D was confused. I guarantee to you, putting my left nut on EBay, if the Titans had implemented a little deception into this game, no amount of motivation for not being 0-2 would have helped the Colts yesterday, because they couldn't stop anything, and it would have been closer to 42-24 or so the other way around.

Unfortunately, the Colts won this game, and all those people who believe in the "motivation" factor got reinforced for the wrong reasons. I would believe in it, too, if I didn't see the evidence right in front of my eyes.

Want to read a Manning quote that backs me up? Read it here.

Here's David Climer's article in The Tennessean that repeats my reasonings. Click here.