Posted by Mike Florio on October 9, 2015, 8:30 AM EDT
Last week, Colts coach Chuck Pagano was “supremely confident” that quarterback Andrew Luck would be able to play against the Jaguars. And Luck didn’t play.
Last night, Pagano was asked after a win over the Texans about his confidence when it comes to facing the team’s next opponent, the Patriots. And, yes, Pagano went there again.
“Supremely confident,” Pagano told reporters.
Perhaps that phrase doesn’t mean what Pagano thinks it means. Or maybe it’s just the coach-speak way of dealing with the challenge of getting a football team ready to play an excellent team that has extra motivation, thanks to #DeflateGate, to drop another 45 points and 200-plus rushing yards against the Colts on the field situated beneath that brand-new “AFC Finalist” banner.
Regardless, Pagano’s supreme confidence recently has translated into anything but. And if the Patriots roll the Colts again in nine days on NBC, it probably makes sense to treat that phrase like one of George Carlin’s seven words not to say on TV. Or, for Pagano, anywhere else.