win streak coming into their Week 11 matchup with the Tennessee Titans. The Titans were allowing the fewest points in the league while the Colts were averaging over 30 points per game over their last five games as well. This one was meant to be a great battle in Lucas Oil Stadium. The Colts certainly owned the first half racking up 24 points and 246 total yards Quenton Nelson Color Rush Jersey , while holding the Titans offense to only 3 points and 114 yards from scrimmage.The Colts second half was just as dominant, but without all of the scoring. The Colts put together lengthy drives keeping the ball in the hands of their franchise quarterback, and put together a great game plan to complete the blowout of their divisional foes. Here are a few takeaways from today’s big Colts win.Colts get T.Y. Hilton involved very early on One of the Colts biggest playmakers on offense, Hilton, had only accumulated 8 catches in his last three games played before today. However, the Colts were obviously determined to change all of that going forward. Hilton caught 2 passes on the team’s first 3 plays of the game and nabbed 4 receptions for 101 yards, including a 68-yard bomb for a touchdown in the first half alone against the Titans. Andrew Luck attempted to hit him again deep on the very next possession and while it didn’t net a reception, it did force a pass interference call on Titans’ corner Adoree Jackson giving the Colts the ball near midfield. Hilton finished the day with 9 catches for 155 yards (17.2 yards per reception) and 2 touchdowns. I think he’s back.Colts defense earns 4 sacks in first half, shut down Titans’ offenseAfter several straight games without accruing a sack, the Colts defense decided to switch things up a bit in this matchup. The Colts DO NOT blitz with any frequency, and they don’t do it on third down almost at all.Today, though, they did, and they did it early and often. On the Titans’ very first possession they brought Marcus Mariota down for their first sack after sending 6 rushers on third down, and on their very next possession the Colts blitzed on first down to stop the running game, and again two plays later on third down again.This mindset — of which the Colts very rarely have strayed from this year — allowed the Colts to rack up 4 sacks, hold the Titans running game to only one double-digit yard run (both first half stats), and keep the Titans offense off balance throughout the rest of the day. The Colts only allowed 114 total yards and 3 points in the first half on a day in which the Colts offense was next to perfect most of the game.The Colts held the Titans to 4.5 yards per play, 87 rushing yards and 176 passing yards all while allowing only 10 points on the day. They also accumulated a total of 5 sacks and 8 tackles for loss on the day.Darius Leonard continues his fantastic rookie campaignIt seems like we’re talking about him every week. Maybe that’s because he’s dominating every week. Leonard has now cleared 100 total tackles on the season, and just today added 7 total tackles, another sack, a forced fumble as well as an interception to his season totals. Leonard is making a very strong push for Defensive Rookie of the Year honors, has been a surprise to some https://www.coltsfanshop.com/Andrew-Luck-Jersey , but has also been vindication for others who touted his second-round selection as a fantastic pick for this new Colts’ defensive scheme. Leonard has been a fantastic addition to the Colts who desperately needed a massive upgrade to their linebacker corps this season. He shows off his speed, is a sure tackler and offers some of that quick-twitch pass rush help that the Colts have also needed from the unit.All in all, Leonard is definitely the Colts defensive MVP through 10 games and may be in line for more league awards if his play continues to dominate as the season progresses. Colts offense is humming at the right timeThe Colts, again, put together a very impressive game offensively. Not to mention that they did it for a second consecutive week against divisional rivals, and another very good defense. The Colts, in the last two weeks, have put up 53 points in the first halves of those games, and Andrew Luck has 13 touchdowns with only a single interception over his last 4 games. Luck also has at least 3 touchdown passes in his last 7 games (24 total touchdowns), a feat in which only Peyton Manning and Tom Brady have done before him in a single season. Luck finished the day 23-of-29 for 297 passing yards, and 3 touchdowns with a 10.2 yard per attempt average. He’s certainly getting into the MVP conversation in addition to the comeback player of the year honors.The offensive line hasn’t given up a sack now in 5 straight games, the running game got back on track today (4.2 yards per attempt before their kneel-downs) after a quick speed bump against the Jaguars last week, and outside of a few blips, the receivers have been as sure-handed as they’ve been all year. Every week, I will present a summary of some basic and advanced stats for the Colts performance relative to the league. Thanks to Pro Football Reference, NFL.com and the nflSCrapR project for being awesome sources of weekly data.Unsurprisingly, Dallas came out running the ball against the Colts last Sunday as Ezekiel Elliott found some initial success, hoarding the Time Of Possession in the first half.Somewhat surprisingly (well it was surprising to me), the Colts also found rushing success, slowing the game and giving each team only 7 offensive drives on the day (the last kneel-down drive excluded). That’s the fewest drives of any game all year.The Colts scored on 5 of those drives but only the first one was needed. The only poor Colt’s drive was Marlon Mack’s fumble.Even the Rigoberto Sanchez punt came on a drive that was “matriculating down the field” with 4 first down conversions before a veritable butt-load of penalties killed it. 23 offensive first downs is a lot. 23 first downs on 7 drives is ridiculously good and is why the Drive Success Rate was a sky-high 82%. TEAM TOTALS23 points is good, but on only 7 drives it is great and ends up being the 3rd most Adjusted Points per Drive (3.3) of the week.Even with the game slowed down, the Colts put up a lot of yards and having 1 out of every 3 plays be a first down is an excellent way to win games.Over the past few weeks, third down conversions have been problematic but this weeks 67% conversion rate led the league.The Cowboys did their part as well Josh Ferguson Jersey , extending Colt drives 3 times with penalties. PASSINGComing in to the game, the Dallas defense was ranked 19th against the pass (Adjusted Net Yards per Attempt against).So, it’s not that surprising that Andrew Luck basically played a little bit better than his season average.While his completion % was lower than usual, the Yards after Catch was very good (2nd week in a row!)Luck missed his only passing TD attempt, but 0 picks and 0 sacks kept his ANY/A at a decent 7.1The most important number, however, is that over 40% of Luck’s passes were first down conversions. So, even though the passing volume was low and the efficiency just a bit above average, the passing game kept the chains moving. In fact, only 2 other passing offenses had more success converting first downs last week.RUSHINGAs of last week, Dallas ranked 7th in preventing successful runs (weighted Rush Success Rate), but against that stout defense, the Colts exceeded their season wRSR average (44% vs 39%) while putting up the 3rd most rushing yards on the season (178). Marlon Mack was over 80% of that production with the 2nd most carries of any running back this week. He put up a 5.3 YPC, a 51% wRSR, which was 5th best of any RB (min 10 carries) and he scored the only TDs of the game.He was, as the kids used to say, en fuego. CONCLUSIONS & NEXT MATCH-UPThere is no question that the Colts offense was firing on all cylinders against the Cowboys and even with the mental errors of penalties and drops (I’m looking at you Pro-Bowler) , they had no problem moving the ball and scoring. Next up are the New York football Giants.They will bring a pass defense that has managed to consistently limit QBs (9th in ANY/A against).They tend to give up passing yards but are stingy with points, tied for 5th fewest passing TDs given up (1.3 per game) and 5th most interceptions on the year (15). However, their run defense is not nearly as good giving up the 20th highest wRSR on the year and the 25th most rushing TDs (1.1 per game).The Colts are heavy favorites at home (-9.5) so, hopefully we see another dominant offensive performance. TRAILING 5 WEEK TOTALS (per game)SEASON TOTALS (per game)