1. Bench Clint Session: Do not let this man see the field as the strongside linebacker.  He is a weakside linebacker and is out of position.  He is being exploited for his bad tackling and poor play reading.  Draws killed this team, and Session was a main reason why.  He bid on everyone.  I could see the draw coming, but apparently he couldn’t.  Start Philip Wheeler in his place or sign Rob Morris.  Session looks like Gilbert Gardner, the worst starter in the history of the Dungy-era Colts.

2. Forget about the pass defense: 8 men in the box every play, even if it is third and long.  The next two QBs we face are Matt Schaub and Joe Flacco.  I’m not scared of them.  Sadly, I’m scared of Steve Slaton and LeRon McClain.  If we can stop the run, then we can put seven men in the box.  For now, put Bullitt in the box and have multiple spies on the running back.  We would have won this game if we could have stopped the draw play.  Sadly, we didn’t.

3. Make a Booger-esque trade: Free agency is all dried up, and we need to make a move.  We have our second and third round draft picks.  I think we could get a SAM linebacker from a Tampa 2 team.  The teams that fit our style would be Chicago, Minnesota, Tampa Bay, Detroit, and Kansas City.  Looking at their rosters and stats, and a player like Demmorio Williams from Kansas City or Ryan Nece from Detroit might do the trick, but there aren’t too many options.  We need a new SAM though.  I support signing Rob Morris, but I don’t know if that’s happening.  If we don’t sign Morris, a trade has to go down.

4. Run the ball: The stretch is back and better than ever.  It looks like that is why we couldn’t run.  That and the fact that Jeff Saturday wasn’t playing.  But with Saturday and the stretch back, Addai is looking great again.  Now we have to run the ball.  Put in Rhodes and Hart to keep all the backs fresh.  We lost because we couldn’t get the Jags offense off of the field.  We need to keep our offense on the field if we want to win.

These four changes could get the Colts winning again.  Some of these may not happen, but if they do, expect to see the Colts playing in February.

1. Stop The Run: Ed “Pineapple Express” Johnson toked his Colts career away, but that doesn’t mean that Adrian Peterson is going to run all over us.  However, the current defensive tackles will have to step up if we are to win this game.  Our defensive tackles are Raheem Brock, Keyunta Dawson, Eric Foster, Daniel Muir, Darrell Reid, and recent signee LaJuan Ramsey.  None of these guys are Pro Bowl contenders, but they can do enough to keep Adrian Peterson from getting big chunks of yards.

Daniel Muir and LaJuan Ramsey are the only players that are as big as Ed Johnson, but we don’t need fatties to stop the run.  Eric Foster, Raheem Brock, and Keyunta Dawson all are extremely fast for defensive tackles.  If they can get a quick burst off of the line of scrimmage, their size won’t matter because they will already be passed the bigger offensive linemen.  Adrian Peterson is the best all-around back in the league.  I’ve seen him break sure tackles, get to the outside in a split second, and he can go through the middle and break it for a touchdown.  However, in some videos that I have seen, he has been run down by defenders.  He also seems to get most of his big carries off of outside runs.  Both of these are good news for a team with the fastest defense in the league.  Very rarely does a speed back have huge games against the Colts.  It is normally a bigger running back like LenDale White, Maurice Jones-Drew, Michael Turner and Travis Henry that tear apart the Colts on a consistent basis.  There are some exceptions like Darren Sproles, but the Colts have a nice history of shutting down speed backs.

The Colts will also have to watch out for passes to Peterson out of the backfield.  We have struggled with that for a long time.

2. Establish the offense early: We can’t keep this a low scoring game.  Sooner or later they will score.  The Colts need to get points on their first posession, preferrably a touchdown.  The Colts need to turn this game into a shootout.  Do you really think that Tavaris Jackson could keep up with Peyton Manning if this turns into an offensive game?  He can’t.

3. Pressure Jackson: That was something that we needed to do against the Bears, but the pressure didn’t come, and we couldn’t get our offense back on the field.  Jackson is an inexperienced QB who can make mistakes if we can get him out of the pocket.  Dwight Freeney and Robert Mathis will have to step up in a huge way if we are to keep the Vikings offense from moving down the field.  The Vikings don’t have the best pass blocking offensive line, and left tackle Bryant McKinnie is suspended.  We have the potential to make this game a living hell for Tavaris Jackson.  Hopefully we can make him go back to Montgomery crying.

4. We Need A Running Game!: We won’t win if Addai does nothing.  Since the Patriots game last year, I have been losing confidence in Addai.  He has done nothing in 10 games now.  If for some reason he sucks again, then Rhodes will have to step up.  I would really like to see Mike Hart get some carries when the game matters.  We’ve seen what he can do in the preseason.  He could be the X-factor in this game.

5. Special Teams: This may be the first time in Colts history that we may have the advantage on special teams.  Last week, the Vikings had the second worst VOA for special teams.  They had no return game at all on either punts or kicks, and to top it off, they gave up a punt return for a touchdown.  Now that Courtney Roby has been cut and Pierre Garcon and Justin Forsett are the returners, we won’t fumble the kickoff returns and get no yardage.  If we can keep them from crossing the 30 on their kickoff returns and get past the 30 every time on our returns, we will win this game.  Field position is everything, and it very easily could decide this game.