Now that's more like it

Coming off one of their worst performances in recent memory, the Indianapolis Colts showed their true colors Sunday night, clobbering the visiting NEw York Giants, 38-14 at the home opener at Lucas Oil Stadium.
Everything the Colts did wrong in their Week One opener against Houston changed for the better when the Giants came to town. The first sign that this was going to be one of the best games I've ever seen the Colts play was the emergence of the run game on the opening drive. Both Jospeh Addai and Donald Brown were effective the whole night. The Colts never had so many running plays in the Peyton Manning era.
Brown scored the opening touchdown untouched from seven yards out. But the drive that really showed that the Giants had no chance was when Manning took over at the Colts one-yard line, marched to midfield using mostly runs, and using the play action to find an open Dallas Clark at the 30 and running in the end zone for the second score of the day.
By halftime, it was 24-0, and effectively over.
Much hype was made about the showdown between Peyton and his little brother Eli Manning, who quarterbacks the Giants. I was hoping both would play well because Eli is my fantasy QB. But he did not. But then again he didn't have much of a chance. The Colts defensive line dominated the line of scrimmage, sacking Manning multiple time and forcing two fumbles. They also intercepted him in the first half before the win was sealed.
Eli did throw two touchdowns and despite his bad game, was my fantasy scoring leader for the week with 14 points.
I mentioned last week that the first Sunday was great for my fantasy team and bad for the Colts. The second week was the complete opposite. My fantasy team bombed with uncharacteristically quiet outputs from Chris Johnson, Greg Jennings and Pierre Garcon. My big mistake was sitting the Colts defense in favor of Carolina, who totaled one point in their loss to Tampa Bay.
Hopefully the Colts take their good play on the road and have anoher inspired effort in Denver Sunday.
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I don't ever recall a week with so much parody. Miami won in Minnesota, the Bears downed the Cowboys in big D, the Bucs beat the Panters, the Jets without Darrelle Revis stopped New England and the Steelers dominated in Tennessee. It's odd that teams like Kansas City, Tampa Bay, Pittsburgh and the Bears are 2-0, while preseason SUper Bowl contenders Minnesota, Dallas and San Francisco are looking at 0-2 starts.