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Broadway Joe will be in the building. Nostalgia will be all around MetLife Stadium on Sunday, with rookie Sam Darnold and this year's Jets team trying to set a much more modest goal against the Indianapolis Colts - not coincidentally, the franchise New York beat for that 1969 title while it was in Baltimore. Coming off an impressive 34-16 victory over Denver last Sunday and with the likes of Joe Namath and Don Maynard watching, New York will look to win consecutive games for the first time since taking three straight in Weeks 3-5 last season - over a year ago. Continue to Article

October 11, 2018 2:43:pm EST

The Indianapolis Colts hope to do the same this week, needing a victory to halt a three-game slide and keep them from falling further away from postseason contention when they visit the Jets on Sunday afternoon at MetLife Stadium. Indianapolis (1-4) has stumbled out of the gate and is sitting at the bottom of the AFC South, but it is only two games behind division co-leaders Tennessee and Jacksonville. "It will be a big week," said Colts head coach Frank Reich, who wore a "got juice" shirt to his media briefing on Wednesday. Continue to Article

October 11, 2018 11:27:am EST

Sam Darnold remembers sitting at home in Southern California watching Andrew Luck sling the football all over the fields of the Pac-12 for Stanford. The young quarterback was a freshman in high school in 2012, when Luck became the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft and the future of the franchise for the Indianapolis Colts. More than six years later, Darnold is in the same spot with the New York Jets. Continue to Article

October 10, 2018 8:40:pm EST

New York Jets defensive coordinator Kacy Rodgers briefly returned to the team's facility, and coach Todd Bowles says there's a ''small chance'' he coaches against the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday. Rodgers is dealing with what Bowles characterized last week as a ''serious'' illness. Rodgers had a medical appointment last Thursday and was not with the team for practice Friday, when a somber Bowles revealed that Rogers was dealing with an illness. Continue to Article

October 10, 2018 6:12:pm EST

Indianapolis Colts’ guard Matt Slauson, No. 68, played all of last Thursday’s game against New England despite breaking two vertebrae in his back in the third quarter. The Indianapolis Colts placed guard Matt Slauson on injured reserve on Monday, a move that caught even the team’s beat reporters by surprise. Slauson had played every snap of the Colts’ loss to the Patriots on Thursday night, and indeed had played every offensive snap for the team through its first five games. Continue to Article

October 10, 2018 1:31:pm EST