GAME THREAD: GAME THREAD: NFL: INDIANAPOLIS (8-2) at ATLANTA (3-7)

NFL: INDIANAPOLIS at ATLANTA

<div class="pre">NFL FG IND
ADAM VINATIERI 24 YD

INDIANAPOLIS 31
ATLANTA 13 0:32 LEFT, 3RD QTR</div>

 

NFL: INDIANAPOLIS at ATLANTA

<div class="pre">NFL
INDIANAPOLIS 31
ATLANTA 13 0:27 LEFT, 3RD QTR

ATL BALL ON ATL 15 YD LINE
1ST AND 10</div>

 

NFL: INDIANAPOLIS at ATLANTA

<div class="pre">NFL END, 3RD QTR 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH TOTAL
--- --- --- --- -----
INDIANAPOLIS 0 21 10 31
ATLANTA 10 3 0 13 END, 3RD QTR

SCORING SUMMARY

1ST QUARTER: ATL - FG, MORTEN ANDERSEN 34 YD, 8:01. Drive:
19 plays, 63 yards in 8:01. Key
plays: Norwood 14-yard run to
Atlanta 35; Harrington 9-yard pass
to Jenkins on 3rd-and-6 to Atlanta
48; Snelling 3-yard run on
4th-and-1 to Indianapolis 40;
Snelling 1-yard run on 4th-and-1 to
Indianapolis 30; Harrington 11-yard
pass to White on 3rd-and-10 to
Indianapolis 19. ATLANTA 3-0
ATL - TD, RODDY WHITE 48 YD PASS FROM JOEY
HARRINGTON (MORTEN ANDERSEN KICK),
11:16. Drive: 3 plays, 56 yards in
1:47. ATLANTA 10-0
2ND QUARTER: IND - TD, REGGIE WAYNE 23 YD PASS FROM PEYTON
MANNING (ADAM VINATIERI KICK),
0:18. Drive: 3 plays, 43 yards in
0:28. Key plays: Rushing 12-yard
punt return to Atlanta 43; Manning
35-yard pass to Gonzalez to Atlanta
8. ATLANTA 10-7
ATL - FG, MORTEN ANDERSEN 30 YD, 3:25. Drive:
6 plays, 29 yards in 3:07. Key
plays: Norwood 37-yard kickoff
return plus 15-yard unnecessary
roughness penalty on Colts' Reid to
Indianapolis 41; Harrington 21-yard
pass to White to Indianapolis 18.
ATLANTA 13-7
IND - TD, DALLAS CLARK 8 YD PASS FROM PEYTON
MANNING (ADAM VINATIERI KICK),
8:15. Drive: 10 plays, 72 yards in
4:50. Key plays: Keith 12-yard run
to Indianapolis 48; 15-yard
running-into-the-kicker penalty on
Falcons' D Williams on 4th-and-1 to
Atlanta 46; Manning 13-yard pass to
Utecht to Atlanta 33; Manning
11-yard pass to Utecht to Atlanta
22; Manning 12-yard pass to
Gonzalez on 3rd-and-8 to Atlanta 8.
INDIANAPOLIS 14-13
IND - TD, BEN UTECHT 5 YD PASS FROM PEYTON
MANNING (ADAM VINATIERI KICK),
12:22. Drive: 4 plays, 48 yards in
1:29. Key plays: Sanders recovery
of Hayden fumble at Atlanta 48;
Manning 32-yard pass to Gonzalez to
Atlanta 16. INDIANAPOLIS 21-13
3RD QUARTER: IND - TD, JOSEPH ADDAI 4 YD RUN (ADAM
VINATIERI KICK), 9:55. Drive: 7
plays, 54 yards in 3:13. Key plays:
6-yard pass interference penalty on
Falcons' Houston on 3rd-and-6 to
Atlanta 44; Keith 17-yard run to
Atlanta 27; Manning 14-yard pass to
Wayne to Atlanta 13. INDIANAPOLIS
28-13
IND - FG, ADAM VINATIERI 24 YD, 14:28. Drive:
6 plays, 18 yards in 2:07.
INDIANAPOLIS 31-13</div>

 

NFL: INDIANAPOLIS at ATLANTA

<div class="pre">NFL INDIANAPOLIS 31
ATLANTA 13 14:55 LEFT, 4TH QTR</div>

 

NFL: INDIANAPOLIS at ATLANTA

<div class="pre">NFL
INDIANAPOLIS 31
ATLANTA 13 12:28 LEFT, 4TH QTR

IND BALL ON IND 13 YD LINE
1ST AND 10</div>

 

NFL: INDIANAPOLIS at ATLANTA

<div class="pre">NFL
INDIANAPOLIS 31
ATLANTA 13 6:28 LEFT, 4TH QTR

ATL BALL ON ATL 25 YD LINE
1ST AND 10</div>

 

NFL: INDIANAPOLIS at ATLANTA

<div class="pre">NFL
INDIANAPOLIS 31
ATLANTA 13 2:12 LEFT, 4TH QTR

IND BALL ON IND 42 YD LINE
1ST AND 10</div>

 

NFL: INDIANAPOLIS at ATLANTA

<div class="pre">NFL TWO MINUTE WARNING, 2ND HALF

INDIANAPOLIS 31
ATLANTA 13

IND BALL ON IND 47 YD LINE
1ST AND 10</div>

 

NFL: INDIANAPOLIS at ATLANTA

<div class="pre">NFL FINAL 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH TOTAL
--- --- --- --- -----
INDIANAPOLIS 0 21 10 0 31
ATLANTA 10 3 0 0 13 FINAL

SCORING SUMMARY

1ST QUARTER: ATL - FG, MORTEN ANDERSEN 34 YD, 8:01. Drive:
19 plays, 63 yards in 8:01. Key
plays: Norwood 14-yard run to
Atlanta 35; Harrington 9-yard pass
to Jenkins on 3rd-and-6 to Atlanta
48; Snelling 3-yard run on
4th-and-1 to Indianapolis 40;
Snelling 1-yard run on 4th-and-1 to
Indianapolis 30; Harrington 11-yard
pass to White on 3rd-and-10 to
Indianapolis 19. ATLANTA 3-0
ATL - TD, RODDY WHITE 48 YD PASS FROM JOEY
HARRINGTON (MORTEN ANDERSEN KICK),
11:16. Drive: 3 plays, 56 yards in
1:47. ATLANTA 10-0
2ND QUARTER: IND - TD, REGGIE WAYNE 23 YD PASS FROM PEYTON
MANNING (ADAM VINATIERI KICK),
0:18. Drive: 3 plays, 43 yards in
0:28. Key plays: Rushing 12-yard
punt return to Atlanta 43; Manning
35-yard pass to Gonzalez to Atlanta
8. ATLANTA 10-7
ATL - FG, MORTEN ANDERSEN 30 YD, 3:25. Drive:
6 plays, 29 yards in 3:07. Key
plays: Norwood 37-yard kickoff
return plus 15-yard unnecessary
roughness penalty on Colts' Reid to
Indianapolis 41; Harrington 21-yard
pass to White to Indianapolis 18.
ATLANTA 13-7
IND - TD, DALLAS CLARK 8 YD PASS FROM PEYTON
MANNING (ADAM VINATIERI KICK),
8:15. Drive: 10 plays, 72 yards in
4:50. Key plays: Keith 12-yard run
to Indianapolis 48; 15-yard
running-into-the-kicker penalty on
Falcons' D Williams on 4th-and-1 to
Atlanta 46; Manning 13-yard pass to
Utecht to Atlanta 33; Manning
11-yard pass to Utecht to Atlanta
22; Manning 12-yard pass to
Gonzalez on 3rd-and-8 to Atlanta 8.
INDIANAPOLIS 14-13
IND - TD, BEN UTECHT 5 YD PASS FROM PEYTON
MANNING (ADAM VINATIERI KICK),
12:22. Drive: 4 plays, 48 yards in
1:29. Key plays: Sanders recovery
of Hayden fumble at Atlanta 48;
Manning 32-yard pass to Gonzalez to
Atlanta 16. INDIANAPOLIS 21-13
3RD QUARTER: IND - TD, JOSEPH ADDAI 4 YD RUN (ADAM
VINATIERI KICK), 9:55. Drive: 7
plays, 54 yards in 3:13. Key plays:
6-yard pass interference penalty on
Falcons' Houston on 3rd-and-6 to
Atlanta 44; Keith 17-yard run to
Atlanta 27; Manning 14-yard pass to
Wayne to Atlanta 13. INDIANAPOLIS
28-13
IND - FG, ADAM VINATIERI 24 YD, 14:28. Drive:
6 plays, 18 yards in 2:07. Key
plays: Boiman 26-yard interception
return to Atlanta 24. INDIANAPOLIS
31-13
4TH QUARTER: NONE

ATT: 69,845</div>

 

NFL: INDIANAPOLIS at ATLANTA

<div class="pre">** CONFIRMED **
NFL
INDIANAPOLIS 31
ATLANTA 13 FINAL</div>

 

NFL: INDIANAPOLIS at ATLANTA

<div class="pre">NFL FINAL 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH TOTAL
--- --- --- --- -----
INDIANAPOLIS 0 21 10 0 31
ATLANTA 10 3 0 0 13 FINAL

SCORING SUMMARY

1ST QUARTER:

8:01 ATL - FG, MORTEN ANDERSEN 34 YD.
Drive: 19 plays, 63 yards in 8:01.
Key plays: Norwood 14-yard run to Atlanta 35; Harrington 9-yard pass
to Jenkins on 3rd-and-6 to Atlanta 48; Snelling 3-yard run on 4th-and-1 to
Indianapolis 40; Snelling 1-yard run on 4th-and-1 to Indianapolis 30;
Harrington 11-yard pass to White on 3rd-and-10 to Indianapolis 19. ATLANTA
3-0.
11:16 ATL - TD, RODDY WHITE 48 YD PASS FROM JOEY HARRINGTON (MORTEN ANDERSEN KICK).
Drive: 3 plays, 56 yards in 1:47.
ATLANTA 10-0.

2ND QUARTER:

0:18 IND - TD, REGGIE WAYNE 23 YD PASS FROM PEYTON MANNING (ADAM VINATIERI KICK).
Drive: 3 plays, 43 yards in 0:28.
Key plays: Rushing 12-yard punt return to Atlanta 43; Manning
35-yard pass to Gonzalez to Atlanta 8. ATLANTA 10-7.
3:25 ATL - FG, MORTEN ANDERSEN 30 YD.
Drive: 6 plays, 29 yards in 3:07.
Key plays: Norwood 37-yard kickoff return plus 15-yard unnecessary
roughness penalty on Colts' Reid to Indianapolis 41; Harrington 21-yard
pass to White to Indianapolis 18. ATLANTA 13-7.
8:15 IND - TD, DALLAS CLARK 8 YD PASS FROM PEYTON MANNING (ADAM VINATIERI KICK).
Drive: 10 plays, 72 yards in 4:50.
Key plays: Keith 12-yard run to Indianapolis 48; 15-yard
running-into-the-kicker penalty on Falcons' D Williams on 4th-and-1 to
Atlanta 46; Manning 13-yard pass to Utecht to Atlanta 33; Manning 11-yard
pass to Utecht to Atlanta 22; Manning 12-yard pass to Gonzalez on
3rd-and-8 to Atlanta 8. INDIANAPOLIS 14-13.
12:22 IND - TD, BEN UTECHT 5 YD PASS FROM PEYTON MANNING (ADAM VINATIERI KICK).
Drive: 4 plays, 48 yards in 1:29.
Key plays: Sanders recovery of Hayden fumble at Atlanta 48; Manning
32-yard pass to Gonzalez to Atlanta 16. INDIANAPOLIS 21-13.

3RD QUARTER:

9:55 IND - TD, JOSEPH ADDAI 4 YD RUN (ADAM VINATIERI KICK).
Drive: 7 plays, 54 yards in 3:13.
Key plays: 6-yard pass interference penalty on Falcons' Houston on
3rd-and-6 to Atlanta 44; Keith 17-yard run to Atlanta 27; Manning 14-yard
pass to Wayne to Atlanta 13. INDIANAPOLIS 28-13.
14:28 IND - FG, ADAM VINATIERI 24 YD.
Drive: 6 plays, 18 yards in 2:07.
Key plays: Boiman 26-yard interception return to Atlanta 24.
INDIANAPOLIS 31-13.

4TH QUARTER:

NONE

INDIANAPOLIS - ATLANTA Final Statistics

TEAM STATISTICS INDIANAPOLIS ATLANTA

FIRST DOWNS 26 13
Rushing 6 6
Passing 18 7
Penalty 2 0
THIRD DOWN EFFICIENCY 2-9-22% 5-15-33%
FOURTH DOWN EFFICIENCY 1-1-100% 2-3-67%
TOTAL NET YARDS 365 250
Total offensive plays 63 62
Average gain per play 5.8 4.0
NET YARDS RUSHING 118 112
Rushing attempts 27 30
Average gain per rush 4.4 3.7
Tackles for loss-yards 1-2 0-0
NET YARDS PASSING 247 138
Times sacked: Number-Yards 4-25 2-17
Gross passing yards 272 155
PASS ATTEMPTS-COMPLETIONS-HAD INTERCEPTED 32-22-1 30-14-2
Avg gain per pass play 6.9 4.3
KICKOFFS: Number-In End Zone-Touchbacks 6-2-0 4-2-0
PUNTS: Number and Average 4-43.5 4-50.0
Had blocked 0 0
Net punting average 36.3 50.0
TOTAL RETURN YARDAGE (Not including kickoffs) 52 3
Number-Yards: Punt Returns 3-29 0-0
Number-Yards: Kickoff Returns 4-102 6-158
Number-Yards: Interception Returns 2-23 1-3
PENALTIES: Number-Yards 6-55 5-41
FUMBLES: Number-Lost 2-0 0-0
TOUCHDOWNS 4 1
Rushing 1 0
Passing 3 1
Interceptions 0 0
Other (blocked kicks, etc.) 0 0
EXTRA POINTS: Made-Attempts 4-4 1-1
Kicking: Made-Attempts 4-4 1-1
Passing: Made-Attempts 0-0 0-0
Rushing: Made-Attempts 0-0 0-0
FIELD GOALS: Made-Attempts 1-1 2-2
FGs - PATs had blocked 0-0 0-0
RED ZONE EFFICIENCY 4-6-67% 0-2-0%
GOAL TO GO EFFICIENCY 3-3-100% 0-0-0%
SAFETIES 0 0
TIME OF POSSESSION 29:24 30:36


INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

INDIANAPOLIS ATLANTA

RUSHING ATT YDS AVG LG TD RUSHING ATT YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
K KEITH 17 74 4.4 17 0 W DUNN 17 70 4.1 9 0
J ADDAI 10 44 4.4 9 1 J NORWOOD 6 33 5.5 14 0
J SNELLING 4 6 1.5 3 0
J HARRINGT 2 3 1.5 4 0
O MUGHELLI 1 0 0.0 0 0

PASSING CM-AT-YDS IN TD LG PASSING CM-AT-YDS IN TD LG
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
P MANNING 22-32-272 1 3 35 J HARRINGT 14-30-155 2 1 48

Sacked-Yards Lost: P MANNING 4-25. Sacked-Yards Lost: J HARRINGT 2-17.

RECEIVING NO YDS AVG LG TD RECEIVING NO YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
A GONZALEZ 6 105 17.5 35 0 R WHITE 6 104 17.3 48 1
R WAYNE 5 66 13.2 23 1 A CRUMPLER 3 14 4.7 6 0
D CLARK 5 49 9.8 19 1 W DUNN 2 10 5.0 6 0
B UTECHT 4 38 9.5 13 1 M JENKINS 1 9 9.0 9 0
J ADDAI 2 14 7.0 8 0 O MUGHELLI 1 9 9.0 9 0
J NORWOOD 1 9 9.0 9 0

INTERCEPTIONS NO YDS AVG LG TD INTERCEPTIONS NO YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
R BOIMAN 1 26 26.0 26 0 D HALL 1 3 3.0 3 0
K HAYDEN 1 -3 -3.0 0 0

PUNTING NO YDS AVG T I LG PUNTING NO YDS AVG T I LG
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
H SMITH 4 174 43.5 1 2 45 M KOENEN 4 200 50.0 0 1 52

T = Touchbacks, I = Inside 20

PUNT RETURNS NO YDS AVG LG TD PUNT RETURNS NO YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
T RUSHING 3 29 9.7 12 0

KICKOFF RETURNS NO YDS AVG LG TD KICKOFF RETURNS NO YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
C THORPE 4 102 25.5 28 0 J NORWOOD 6 158 26.3 37 0

KICKING XP/XPA FG/FGA KICKING XP/XPA FG/FGA
---------------------------------- ----------------------------------
A VINATIER 4/4 1/1 M ANDERSEN 1/1 2/2
Dist.: 24 Dist.: 34 30

O-D O-D
FUMBLES NO LOST FF REC FUMBLES NO LOST FF REC
------------------------------------ ------------------------------------
K HAYDEN 1 0 0 0-0 M BOLEY 0 0 1 0-0
P MANNING 1 0 0 1-0
B SANDERS 0 0 0 1-1

DEFENSE TK SO AS SK-YD DEFENSE TK SO AS SK-YD
------------------------------------ ------------------------------------
G BRACKETT 13 11 2 0-0 M BOLEY 9 8 1 3-20
B SANDERS 6 6 0 0-0 D WILLIAMS 6 6 0 0-0
F KEIAHO 5 5 0 0-0 K BROOKING 6 5 1 1-5
Q PITCOCK 4 4 0 0-0 D HALL 5 5 0 0-0
T RUSHING 4 3 1 0-0 C HOUSTON 4 4 0 0-0
R BROCK 3 3 0 1-9 J ANDERSON 4 4 0 0-0
A BETHEA 3 3 0 0-0 L MILLOY 4 3 1 0-0
E JOHNSON 3 1 2 0-0 C CROCKER 3 3 0 0-0
R BOIMAN 2 2 0 0-0 M STANLEY 3 2 1 0-0
K HAYDEN 2 2 0 0-0 J ABRAHAM 2 2 0 0-0
R MATHIS 2 1 1 0-0 C DAVIS 2 2 0 0-0
S RICE 1 1 0 1-8 T ANDERSON 2 1 1 0-0
M JACKSON 1 1 0 0-0 L SANDERS 1 1 0 0-0
J BABINEAUX 1 1 0 0-0
J WILLIAMS 1 1 0 0-0

Att: 69,845</div>

 

By Phil Foley
PA SportsTicker Contributing Writer


ATLANTA (Ticker) -- The milestones keep on piling up in thelegendary career of Peyton Manning.


Manning threw three touchdowns to lead the Indianapolis Colts toa 31-13 victory over the lowly Atlanta Falcons in Thursday'sThanksgiving night contest.


All it took to wake up the slumping Manning, who failed torecord a touchdown pass in his last contest, was a visit to playthe Falcons.


Facing a depleted Atlanta defense, the 31-year old Manningcompleted 22-of-32 passes for 272 yards and engineered threefirst-half scoring drives to lead the Colts (9-2) to anothervictory.


After spotting Atlanta a 10-0 lead, Manning passed Warren Moonfor sole possession of fifth place on the all-time touchdownpass list when he found Reggie Wayne in the end zone on a23-yard pass.


It was the 292nd TD in the reigning Super Bowl MVP's career,which cut the lead to three with 14:42 remaining in the secondquarter.


Indianapolis was given a second chance to score on its nextpossession when Atlanta's Demorrio Williams was whistled for acostly running into the kicker penalty on 4th-and-1 at theFalcons' 49.


And Manning made them pay, connecting on three of his next fourpasses before finding Anthony Gonzalez for his second TD strikewith 6:45 remaining in the second.


The opportunistic Colts took advantage of a turnover by Atlantato extend the edge to eight points four minutes later.

Antoine Bethea leveled Atlanta wide receiver Laurent Robinson,forcing Robinson to cough up the football, which was eventuallyrecovered by Bob Sanders at Atlanta's 48.


Four plays later, Manning found Ben Utecht with a five-yardstrike to pad Indianapolis' lead.


The two-time league MVP also eked his way into the top 10 inpassing yards, finishing with 272 yards, to pass another Coltsfranchise legend - Johnny Unitas - with 40,407 yards. JoeMontana is ninth on the list with 40,551 yards.


However, Manning and the Colts have struggled of late, losingtwo of three coming into Thursday's contest with the Falcons.

Playing without favorite receiver Marvin Harrison, who hasmissed six games this season with a knee injury, the 31-year-oldManning has looked pedestrian at times, failing to throw atouchdown pass in the Colts' 13-10 win over the Kansas CityChiefs on Sunday.


But Manning was not the only one adding his name to the recordbooks.


Atlanta running back Warrick Dunn became the 22nd player in NFLhistory to record 10,000 yards on the ground, when he rumbled upthe middle just 26 seconds into the second quarter.

The contest was supposed to be a matchup between two of theNFL's elite quarterbacks - Manning and Michael Vick.

But with the suspended Vick sitting in a Maryland jail cell thisThanksgiving after surrendering to federal officials to beginserving a sentence on dogfighting charges, the strugglingFalcons turned once again to Joey Harrington.


In his third stint as the starting quarterback for the Falcons(3-8), Harrington engineered a 19-play, 63-yard drive to put histeam on the board when Morten Anderson connected on a 34-yardfield goal to give Atlanta a 3-0 lead.


The Falcons extended the edge to 10-0 when Harrington foundRoddy White for a 48-yard TD pass with 3:44 in the first period.But then the Colts woke up.


Harrington finished 14-of-30 for 155 yards with one TD and twointerceptions.


Joseph Addai rushed for 44 yards on 10 carries with onetouchdown for the Colts, who improved to 13-1 against theFalcons all-time.

 

NFL: INDIANAPOLIS at ATLANTA

<div class="pre">NFL FINAL 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH TOTAL
--- --- --- --- -----
INDIANAPOLIS 0 21 10 0 31
ATLANTA 10 3 0 0 13 FINAL

SCORING SUMMARY

1ST QUARTER:

8:01 ATL - FG, MORTEN ANDERSEN 34 YD.
Drive: 19 plays, 63 yards in 8:01.
Key plays: Norwood 14-yard run to Atlanta 35; Harrington 9-yard pass
to Jenkins on 3rd-and-6 to Atlanta 48; Snelling 3-yard run on 4th-and-1 to
Indianapolis 40; Snelling 1-yard run on 4th-and-1 to Indianapolis 30;
Harrington 11-yard pass to White on 3rd-and-10 to Indianapolis 19. ATLANTA
3-0.
11:16 ATL - TD, RODDY WHITE 48 YD PASS FROM JOEY HARRINGTON (MORTEN ANDERSEN KICK).
Drive: 3 plays, 56 yards in 1:47.
ATLANTA 10-0.

2ND QUARTER:

0:18 IND - TD, REGGIE WAYNE 23 YD PASS FROM PEYTON MANNING (ADAM VINATIERI KICK).
Drive: 3 plays, 43 yards in 0:28.
Key plays: Rushing 12-yard punt return to Atlanta 43; Manning
35-yard pass to Gonzalez to Atlanta 8. ATLANTA 10-7.
3:25 ATL - FG, MORTEN ANDERSEN 30 YD.
Drive: 6 plays, 29 yards in 3:07.
Key plays: Norwood 37-yard kickoff return plus 15-yard unnecessary
roughness penalty on Colts' Reid to Indianapolis 41; Harrington 21-yard
pass to White to Indianapolis 18. ATLANTA 13-7.
8:15 IND - TD, DALLAS CLARK 8 YD PASS FROM PEYTON MANNING (ADAM VINATIERI KICK).
Drive: 10 plays, 72 yards in 4:50.
Key plays: Keith 12-yard run to Indianapolis 48; 15-yard
running-into-the-kicker penalty on Falcons' D Williams on 4th-and-1 to
Atlanta 46; Manning 13-yard pass to Utecht to Atlanta 33; Manning 11-yard
pass to Utecht to Atlanta 22; Manning 12-yard pass to Gonzalez on
3rd-and-8 to Atlanta 8. INDIANAPOLIS 14-13.
12:22 IND - TD, BEN UTECHT 5 YD PASS FROM PEYTON MANNING (ADAM VINATIERI KICK).
Drive: 4 plays, 48 yards in 1:29.
Key plays: Sanders recovery of Hayden fumble at Atlanta 48; Manning
32-yard pass to Gonzalez to Atlanta 16. INDIANAPOLIS 21-13.

3RD QUARTER:

9:55 IND - TD, JOSEPH ADDAI 4 YD RUN (ADAM VINATIERI KICK).
Drive: 7 plays, 54 yards in 3:13.
Key plays: 6-yard pass interference penalty on Falcons' Houston on
3rd-and-6 to Atlanta 44; Keith 17-yard run to Atlanta 27; Manning 14-yard
pass to Wayne to Atlanta 13. INDIANAPOLIS 28-13.
14:28 IND - FG, ADAM VINATIERI 24 YD.
Drive: 6 plays, 18 yards in 2:07.
Key plays: Boiman 26-yard interception return to Atlanta 24.
INDIANAPOLIS 31-13.

4TH QUARTER:

NONE

INDIANAPOLIS - ATLANTA Final Statistics

TEAM STATISTICS INDIANAPOLIS ATLANTA

FIRST DOWNS 26 13
Rushing 6 6
Passing 18 7
Penalty 2 0
THIRD DOWN EFFICIENCY 2-9-22% 5-15-33%
FOURTH DOWN EFFICIENCY 1-1-100% 2-3-67%
TOTAL NET YARDS 365 250
Total offensive plays 63 62
Average gain per play 5.8 4.0
NET YARDS RUSHING 118 112
Rushing attempts 27 30
Average gain per rush 4.4 3.7
Tackles for loss-yards 1-2 0-0
NET YARDS PASSING 247 138
Times sacked: Number-Yards 4-25 2-17
Gross passing yards 272 155
PASS ATTEMPTS-COMPLETIONS-HAD INTERCEPTED 32-22-1 30-14-2
Avg gain per pass play 6.9 4.3
KICKOFFS: Number-In End Zone-Touchbacks 6-2-0 4-2-0
PUNTS: Number and Average 4-43.5 4-50.0
Had blocked 0 0
Net punting average 36.3 50.0
TOTAL RETURN YARDAGE (Not including kickoffs) 52 3
Number-Yards: Punt Returns 3-29 0-0
Number-Yards: Kickoff Returns 4-102 6-158
Number-Yards: Interception Returns 2-23 1-3
PENALTIES: Number-Yards 6-55 5-41
FUMBLES: Number-Lost 2-0 0-0
TOUCHDOWNS 4 1
Rushing 1 0
Passing 3 1
Interceptions 0 0
Other (blocked kicks, etc.) 0 0
EXTRA POINTS: Made-Attempts 4-4 1-1
Kicking: Made-Attempts 4-4 1-1
Passing: Made-Attempts 0-0 0-0
Rushing: Made-Attempts 0-0 0-0
FIELD GOALS: Made-Attempts 1-1 2-2
FGs - PATs had blocked 0-0 0-0
RED ZONE EFFICIENCY 4-6-67% 0-2-0%
GOAL TO GO EFFICIENCY 3-3-100% 0-0-0%
SAFETIES 0 0
TIME OF POSSESSION 29:24 30:36


INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

INDIANAPOLIS ATLANTA

RUSHING ATT YDS AVG LG TD RUSHING ATT YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
K KEITH 17 74 4.4 17 0 W DUNN 17 70 4.1 9 0
J ADDAI 10 44 4.4 9 1 J NORWOOD 6 33 5.5 14 0
J SNELLING 4 6 1.5 3 0
J HARRINGT 2 3 1.5 4 0
O MUGHELLI 1 0 0.0 0 0

PASSING CM-AT-YDS IN TD LG PASSING CM-AT-YDS IN TD LG
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
P MANNING 22-32-272 1 3 35 J HARRINGT 14-30-155 2 1 48

Sacked-Yards Lost: P MANNING 4-25. Sacked-Yards Lost: J HARRINGT 2-17.

RECEIVING NO YDS AVG LG TD RECEIVING NO YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
A GONZALEZ 6 105 17.5 35 0 R WHITE 6 104 17.3 48 1
R WAYNE 5 66 13.2 23 1 A CRUMPLER 3 14 4.7 6 0
D CLARK 5 49 9.8 19 1 W DUNN 2 10 5.0 6 0
B UTECHT 4 38 9.5 13 1 M JENKINS 1 9 9.0 9 0
J ADDAI 2 14 7.0 8 0 O MUGHELLI 1 9 9.0 9 0
J NORWOOD 1 9 9.0 9 0

INTERCEPTIONS NO YDS AVG LG TD INTERCEPTIONS NO YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
R BOIMAN 1 26 26.0 26 0 D HALL 1 3 3.0 3 0
K HAYDEN 1 -3 -3.0 0 0

PUNTING NO YDS AVG T I LG PUNTING NO YDS AVG T I LG
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
H SMITH 4 174 43.5 1 2 45 M KOENEN 4 200 50.0 0 1 52

T = Touchbacks, I = Inside 20

PUNT RETURNS NO YDS AVG LG TD PUNT RETURNS NO YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
T RUSHING 3 29 9.7 12 0

KICKOFF RETURNS NO YDS AVG LG TD KICKOFF RETURNS NO YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
C THORPE 4 102 25.5 28 0 J NORWOOD 6 158 26.3 37 0

KICKING XP/XPA FG/FGA KICKING XP/XPA FG/FGA
---------------------------------- ----------------------------------
A VINATIER 4/4 1/1 M ANDERSEN 1/1 2/2
Dist.: 24 Dist.: 34 30

O-D O-D
FUMBLES NO LOST FF REC FUMBLES NO LOST FF REC
------------------------------------ ------------------------------------
K HAYDEN 1 0 0 0-0 M BOLEY 0 0 1 0-0
P MANNING 1 0 0 1-0
B SANDERS 0 0 0 1-1

DEFENSE TK SO AS SK-YD DEFENSE TK SO AS SK-YD
------------------------------------ ------------------------------------
G BRACKETT 13 11 2 0-0 M BOLEY 9 8 1 3-20
B SANDERS 6 6 0 0-0 D WILLIAMS 6 6 0 0-0
F KEIAHO 5 5 0 0-0 K BROOKING 6 5 1 1-5
Q PITCOCK 4 4 0 0-0 D HALL 5 5 0 0-0
T RUSHING 4 3 1 0-0 C HOUSTON 4 4 0 0-0
R BROCK 3 3 0 1-9 J ANDERSON 4 4 0 0-0
A BETHEA 3 3 0 0-0 L MILLOY 4 3 1 0-0
E JOHNSON 3 1 2 0-0 C CROCKER 3 3 0 0-0
R BOIMAN 2 2 0 0-0 M STANLEY 3 2 1 0-0
K HAYDEN 2 2 0 0-0 J ABRAHAM 2 2 0 0-0
R MATHIS 2 1 1 0-0 C DAVIS 2 2 0 0-0
S RICE 1 1 0 1-8 T ANDERSON 2 1 1 0-0
M JACKSON 1 1 0 0-0 L SANDERS 1 1 0 0-0
J BABINEAUX 1 1 0 0-0
J WILLIAMS 1 1 0 0-0

Officials: Referee-Mike Carey, Umpire-Dan Ferrell, Head Linesman-Kent
Payne, Line Judge-Mark Perlman, Field Judge-Buddy Horton, Side
Judge-Tom Fincken, Back Judge-Bill Schmitz.

Att: 69,845 Time of Game: 2:55</div>

 

By Phil Foley
PA SportsTicker Contributing Writer


ATLANTA (Ticker) -- The milestones keep on piling up in thelegendary career of Peyton Manning.


Manning threw three touchdowns to lead the Indianapolis Colts toa 31-13 victory over the lowly Atlanta Falcons in Thursday'sThanksgiving night contest.


All it took to wake up the slumping Manning, who failed torecord a touchdown pass in his last contest, was a visit to playthe Falcons.


Facing a depleted Atlanta defense, the 31-year old Manningcompleted 22-of-32 passes for 272 yards and engineered threefirst-half scoring drives to lead the Colts (9-2) to anothervictory.


After spotting Atlanta a 10-0 lead, Manning passed Warren Moonfor sole possession of fifth place on the all-time touchdownpass list when he found Reggie Wayne in the end zone on a23-yard pass.


It was the 292nd TD in the reigning Super Bowl MVP's career,which cut the lead to three with 14:42 remaining in the secondquarter.


Manning also eked his way into the top 10 in passing yards,finishing with 272 yards, to pass another Colts franchise legend- Johnny Unitas - with 40,407 yards. Joe Montana is ninth onthe list with 40,551 yards.


"I'm a big fan of quarterbacks," Manning said. "I had bigrespect for Warren Moon. Unitas, I never saw him play, but it'san honor to be wearing the same uniform as Unitas."

Indianapolis was given a second chance to score on its nextpossession when Atlanta's Demorrio Williams was whistled for acostly running into the kicker penalty on 4th-and-1 at theFalcons' 49.


"It was a tough call," Falcons coach Bobby Petrino said. "I amnot sure why it was called. It didn't seem like we did a wholelot, but sometimes you get calls like that."


Manning made them pay, connecting on three of his next fourpasses before finding Anthony Gonzalez for his second TD strikewith 6:45 remaining in the second.


"We executed in a way that we did earlier in the season andmaybe for some reason, (we) got away from that," Gonzalez said."We executed the key plays pretty well, and that's why we got31 points."


The opportunistic Colts took advantage of a turnover by Atlantato extend the edge to eight points four minutes later.

Antoine Bethea leveled Atlanta wide receiver Laurent Robinsonwith a highlight reel hit, forcing Robinson to cough up thefootball, which was eventually recovered by Bob Sanders atAtlanta's 48.


Four plays later, Manning found Ben Utecht with a five-yardstrike to pad Indianapolis' lead.


"We call ourselves 'The Hit Squad' out there," Bethea said. "Wetry to pop anybody who gets (the ball) there. It was a goodhit. It changed the momentum of the game."


"There were a couple of big plays that hurt us in the first half- the fumble by Laurent Robinson and the penalty for roughingthe punter," Petrino said. "It was a really big swing for us."

Manning and the Colts have struggled of late, losing two ofthree coming into Thursday's contest with the Falcons.

Playing without favorite receiver Marvin Harrison, who hasmissed six games this season with a knee injury, the 31 year-oldManning has looked pedestrian at times, failing to throw atouchdown pass in the Colts' 13-10 win over the Kansas CityChiefs on Sunday.


But Indianapolis got a boost this week when Gonzalez, the Colts'2007 first-round pick, re-joined the offensive unit.

"Some of the injuries, they certainly weigh on the guys that areplaying," Manning said. "We have no second or thirds inpractice. With the short week, it felt good to get the win."

"It was nice to have some of our guys back," Colts coach TonyDungy said. "They made some plays. We came into the lockerroom feeling good."


Manning was not the only one adding his name to the recordbooks.


Atlanta running back Warrick Dunn became the 22nd player in NFLhistory to record 10,000 yards on the ground, when he rumbled upthe middle for a two yard gain just 26 seconds into the secondquarter.


"10,000 yards rushing means a lot, obviously," Dunn said. "Butfor me, the most important thing is winning. I'm happy aboutrushing for 10,000 yards, but at the same time, it's not assweet as if we had won the football game."


"It's a remarkable feat, especially when you look at his sizeand stature," Petrino said. "It says a lot about him, hisdurability, his longevity and just how good of a football playerhe is. I am happy to be a part of it."


The contest was supposed to be a matchup between two of theNFL's elite quarterbacks - Manning and Michael Vick.

But with the suspended Vick sitting in a jail cell thisThanksgiving after surrendering to federal officials to beginserving a sentence on dogfighting charges, the strugglingFalcons turned once again to Joey Harrington.


In his third stint as the starting quarterback for the Falcons(3-8), Harrington engineered a 19-play, 63-yard drive to put histeam on the board when Morten Anderson connected on a 34-yardfield goal to give Atlanta a 3-0 lead.


The Falcons extended the edge to 10-0 when Harrington foundRoddy White for a 48-yard TD pass with 3:44 in the first period.But then the Colts woke up.


"It was a fight, and we kind of expected it," Dungy said. "Wewere really not ourselves in the first quarter. We had someuncharacteristic things and penalties. We hurt ourselves and,once we got through that, we played a lot better."

Harrington finished 14-of-30 for 155 yards with one TD and twointerceptions.


Joseph Addai rushed for 44 yards on 10 carries with onetouchdown for the Colts, who improved to 13-1 against theFalcons all-time.

 

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<div class="pre">NFL FINAL 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH TOTAL
--- --- --- --- -----
INDIANAPOLIS 0 21 10 0 31
ATLANTA 10 3 0 0 13 FINAL

SCORING SUMMARY

1ST QUARTER:

8:01 ATL - FG, MORTEN ANDERSEN 34 YD.
Drive: 19 plays, 63 yards in 8:01.
Key plays: Norwood 14-yard run to Atlanta 35; Harrington 9-yard pass
to Jenkins on 3rd-and-6 to Atlanta 48; Snelling 3-yard run on 4th-and-1 to
Indianapolis 40; Snelling 1-yard run on 4th-and-1 to Indianapolis 30;
Harrington 11-yard pass to White on 3rd-and-10 to Indianapolis 19. ATLANTA
3-0.
11:16 ATL - TD, RODDY WHITE 48 YD PASS FROM JOEY HARRINGTON (MORTEN ANDERSEN KICK).
Drive: 3 plays, 56 yards in 1:47.
ATLANTA 10-0.

2ND QUARTER:

0:18 IND - TD, REGGIE WAYNE 23 YD PASS FROM PEYTON MANNING (ADAM VINATIERI KICK).
Drive: 3 plays, 43 yards in 0:28.
Key plays: Rushing 12-yard punt return to Atlanta 43; Manning
35-yard pass to Gonzalez to Atlanta 8. ATLANTA 10-7.
3:25 ATL - FG, MORTEN ANDERSEN 30 YD.
Drive: 6 plays, 29 yards in 3:07.
Key plays: Norwood 37-yard kickoff return plus 15-yard unnecessary
roughness penalty on Colts' Reid to Indianapolis 41; Harrington 21-yard
pass to White to Indianapolis 18. ATLANTA 13-7.
8:15 IND - TD, DALLAS CLARK 8 YD PASS FROM PEYTON MANNING (ADAM VINATIERI KICK).
Drive: 10 plays, 72 yards in 4:50.
Key plays: Keith 12-yard run to Indianapolis 48; 15-yard
running-into-the-kicker penalty on Falcons' D Williams on 4th-and-1 to
Atlanta 46; Manning 13-yard pass to Utecht to Atlanta 33; Manning 11-yard
pass to Utecht to Atlanta 22; Manning 12-yard pass to Gonzalez on
3rd-and-8 to Atlanta 8. INDIANAPOLIS 14-13.
12:22 IND - TD, BEN UTECHT 5 YD PASS FROM PEYTON MANNING (ADAM VINATIERI KICK).
Drive: 4 plays, 48 yards in 1:29.
Key plays: Sanders recovery of Hayden fumble at Atlanta 48; Manning
32-yard pass to Gonzalez to Atlanta 16. INDIANAPOLIS 21-13.

3RD QUARTER:

9:55 IND - TD, JOSEPH ADDAI 4 YD RUN (ADAM VINATIERI KICK).
Drive: 7 plays, 54 yards in 3:13.
Key plays: 6-yard pass interference penalty on Falcons' Houston on
3rd-and-6 to Atlanta 44; Keith 17-yard run to Atlanta 27; Manning 14-yard
pass to Wayne to Atlanta 13. INDIANAPOLIS 28-13.
14:28 IND - FG, ADAM VINATIERI 24 YD.
Drive: 6 plays, 18 yards in 2:07.
Key plays: Boiman 26-yard interception return to Atlanta 24.
INDIANAPOLIS 31-13.

4TH QUARTER:

NONE

INDIANAPOLIS - ATLANTA Final Statistics

TEAM STATISTICS INDIANAPOLIS ATLANTA

FIRST DOWNS 26 13
Rushing 6 6
Passing 18 7
Penalty 2 0
THIRD DOWN EFFICIENCY 2-9-22% 5-15-33%
FOURTH DOWN EFFICIENCY 1-1-100% 2-3-67%
TOTAL NET YARDS 365 250
Total offensive plays 63 62
Average gain per play 5.8 4.0
NET YARDS RUSHING 118 112
Rushing attempts 27 30
Average gain per rush 4.4 3.7
Tackles for loss-yards 1-2 0-0
NET YARDS PASSING 247 138
Times sacked: Number-Yards 4-25 2-17
Gross passing yards 272 155
PASS ATTEMPTS-COMPLETIONS-HAD INTERCEPTED 32-22-1 30-14-2
Avg gain per pass play 6.9 4.3
KICKOFFS: Number-In End Zone-Touchbacks 6-2-0 4-2-0
PUNTS: Number and Average 4-43.5 4-50.0
Had blocked 0 0
Net punting average 36.3 50.0
TOTAL RETURN YARDAGE (Not including kickoffs) 52 3
Number-Yards: Punt Returns 3-29 0-0
Number-Yards: Kickoff Returns 4-102 6-158
Number-Yards: Interception Returns 2-23 1-3
PENALTIES: Number-Yards 6-55 5-41
FUMBLES: Number-Lost 2-0 0-0
TOUCHDOWNS 4 1
Rushing 1 0
Passing 3 1
Interceptions 0 0
Other (blocked kicks, etc.) 0 0
EXTRA POINTS: Made-Attempts 4-4 1-1
Kicking: Made-Attempts 4-4 1-1
Passing: Made-Attempts 0-0 0-0
Rushing: Made-Attempts 0-0 0-0
FIELD GOALS: Made-Attempts 1-1 2-2
FGs - PATs had blocked 0-0 0-0
RED ZONE EFFICIENCY 4-6-67% 0-2-0%
GOAL TO GO EFFICIENCY 3-3-100% 0-0-0%
SAFETIES 0 0
TIME OF POSSESSION 29:24 30:36


INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

INDIANAPOLIS ATLANTA

RUSHING ATT YDS AVG LG TD RUSHING ATT YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
K KEITH 17 74 4.4 17 0 W DUNN 17 70 4.1 9 0
J ADDAI 10 44 4.4 9 1 J NORWOOD 6 33 5.5 14 0
J SNELLING 4 6 1.5 3 0
J HARRINGT 2 3 1.5 4 0
O MUGHELLI 1 0 0.0 0 0

PASSING CM-AT-YDS IN TD LG PASSING CM-AT-YDS IN TD LG
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
P MANNING 22-32-272 1 3 35 J HARRINGT 14-30-155 2 1 48

Sacked-Yards Lost: P MANNING 4-25. Sacked-Yards Lost: J HARRINGT 2-17.

RECEIVING NO YDS AVG LG TD RECEIVING NO YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
A GONZALEZ 6 105 17.5 35 0 R WHITE 6 104 17.3 48 1
R WAYNE 5 66 13.2 23 1 A CRUMPLER 3 14 4.7 6 0
D CLARK 5 49 9.8 19 1 W DUNN 2 10 5.0 6 0
B UTECHT 4 38 9.5 13 1 M JENKINS 1 9 9.0 9 0
J ADDAI 2 14 7.0 8 0 O MUGHELLI 1 9 9.0 9 0
J NORWOOD 1 9 9.0 9 0

INTERCEPTIONS NO YDS AVG LG TD INTERCEPTIONS NO YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
R BOIMAN 1 26 26.0 26 0 D HALL 1 3 3.0 3 0
K HAYDEN 1 -3 -3.0 0 0

PUNTING NO YDS AVG T I LG PUNTING NO YDS AVG T I LG
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
H SMITH 4 174 43.5 1 2 45 M KOENEN 4 200 50.0 0 1 52

T = Touchbacks, I = Inside 20

PUNT RETURNS NO YDS AVG LG TD PUNT RETURNS NO YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
T RUSHING 3 29 9.7 12 0

KICKOFF RETURNS NO YDS AVG LG TD KICKOFF RETURNS NO YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
C THORPE 4 102 25.5 28 0 J NORWOOD 6 158 26.3 37 0

KICKING XP/XPA FG/FGA KICKING XP/XPA FG/FGA
---------------------------------- ----------------------------------
A VINATIER 4/4 1/1 M ANDERSEN 1/1 2/2
Dist.: 24 Dist.: 34 30

O-D O-D
FUMBLES NO LOST FF REC FUMBLES NO LOST FF REC
------------------------------------ ------------------------------------
K HAYDEN 1 0 0 0-0 M BOLEY 0 0 1 0-0
P MANNING 1 0 0 1-0
B SANDERS 0 0 0 1-0

DEFENSE TK SO AS SK-YD DEFENSE TK SO AS SK-YD
------------------------------------ ------------------------------------
G BRACKETT 13 11 2 0-0 M BOLEY 9 8 1 3-20
B SANDERS 6 6 0 0-0 D WILLIAMS 6 6 0 0-0
F KEIAHO 5 5 0 0-0 K BROOKING 6 5 1 1-5
Q PITCOCK 4 4 0 0-0 D HALL 5 5 0 0-0
T RUSHING 4 3 1 0-0 C HOUSTON 4 4 0 0-0
R BROCK 3 3 0 1-9 J ANDERSON 4 4 0 0-0
A BETHEA 3 3 0 0-0 L MILLOY 4 3 1 0-0
E JOHNSON 3 1 2 0-0 C CROCKER 3 3 0 0-0
R BOIMAN 2 2 0 0-0 M STANLEY 3 2 1 0-0
K HAYDEN 2 2 0 0-0 J ABRAHAM 2 2 0 0-0
R MATHIS 2 1 1 0-0 C DAVIS 2 2 0 0-0
S RICE 1 1 0 1-8 T ANDERSON 2 1 1 0-0
M JACKSON 1 1 0 0-0 L SANDERS 1 1 0 0-0
J BABINEAUX 1 1 0 0-0
J WILLIAMS 1 1 0 0-0

Officials: Referee-Mike Carey, Umpire-Dan Ferrell, Head Linesman-Kent
Payne, Line Judge-Mark Perlman, Field Judge-Buddy Horton, Side
Judge-Tom Fincken, Back Judge-Bill Schmitz.

Att: 69,845 Time of Game: 2:55</div>

 

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<div class="pre">NFL INDIANAPOLIS AT ATLANTA
NOTE: RESENDING BOX TO CORRECT FUMBLE RECOVERIES FOR
SANDERS.</div>

 

NFL: INDIANAPOLIS at ATLANTA

<div class="pre">NFL FINAL 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH TOTAL
--- --- --- --- -----
INDIANAPOLIS 0 21 10 0 31
ATLANTA 10 3 0 0 13 FINAL

SCORING SUMMARY

1ST QUARTER:

8:01 ATL - FG, MORTEN ANDERSEN 34 YD.
Drive: 19 plays, 63 yards in 8:01.
Key plays: Norwood 14-yard run to Atlanta 35; Harrington 9-yard pass
to Jenkins on 3rd-and-6 to Atlanta 48; Snelling 3-yard run on 4th-and-1 to
Indianapolis 40; Snelling 1-yard run on 4th-and-1 to Indianapolis 30;
Harrington 11-yard pass to White on 3rd-and-10 to Indianapolis 19. ATLANTA
3-0.
11:16 ATL - TD, RODDY WHITE 48 YD PASS FROM JOEY HARRINGTON (MORTEN ANDERSEN KICK).
Drive: 3 plays, 56 yards in 1:47.
ATLANTA 10-0.

2ND QUARTER:

0:18 IND - TD, REGGIE WAYNE 23 YD PASS FROM PEYTON MANNING (ADAM VINATIERI KICK).
Drive: 3 plays, 43 yards in 0:28.
Key plays: Rushing 12-yard punt return to Atlanta 43; Manning
35-yard pass to Gonzalez to Atlanta 8. ATLANTA 10-7.
3:25 ATL - FG, MORTEN ANDERSEN 30 YD.
Drive: 6 plays, 29 yards in 3:07.
Key plays: Norwood 37-yard kickoff return plus 15-yard unnecessary
roughness penalty on Colts' Reid to Indianapolis 41; Harrington 21-yard
pass to White to Indianapolis 18. ATLANTA 13-7.
8:15 IND - TD, DALLAS CLARK 8 YD PASS FROM PEYTON MANNING (ADAM VINATIERI KICK).
Drive: 10 plays, 72 yards in 4:50.
Key plays: Keith 12-yard run to Indianapolis 48; 15-yard
running-into-the-kicker penalty on Falcons' D Williams on 4th-and-1 to
Atlanta 46; Manning 13-yard pass to Utecht to Atlanta 33; Manning 11-yard
pass to Utecht to Atlanta 22; Manning 12-yard pass to Gonzalez on
3rd-and-8 to Atlanta 8. INDIANAPOLIS 14-13.
12:22 IND - TD, BEN UTECHT 5 YD PASS FROM PEYTON MANNING (ADAM VINATIERI KICK).
Drive: 4 plays, 48 yards in 1:29.
Key plays: Sanders recovery of Hayden fumble at Atlanta 48; Manning
32-yard pass to Gonzalez to Atlanta 16. INDIANAPOLIS 21-13.

3RD QUARTER:

9:55 IND - TD, JOSEPH ADDAI 4 YD RUN (ADAM VINATIERI KICK).
Drive: 7 plays, 54 yards in 3:13.
Key plays: 6-yard pass interference penalty on Falcons' Houston on
3rd-and-6 to Atlanta 44; Keith 17-yard run to Atlanta 27; Manning 14-yard
pass to Wayne to Atlanta 13. INDIANAPOLIS 28-13.
14:28 IND - FG, ADAM VINATIERI 24 YD.
Drive: 6 plays, 18 yards in 2:07.
Key plays: Boiman 26-yard interception return to Atlanta 24.
INDIANAPOLIS 31-13.

4TH QUARTER:

NONE

INDIANAPOLIS - ATLANTA Final Statistics

TEAM STATISTICS INDIANAPOLIS ATLANTA

FIRST DOWNS 26 13
Rushing 6 6
Passing 18 7
Penalty 2 0
THIRD DOWN EFFICIENCY 2-9-22% 5-15-33%
FOURTH DOWN EFFICIENCY 1-1-100% 2-3-67%
TOTAL NET YARDS 365 250
Total offensive plays 63 62
Average gain per play 5.8 4.0
NET YARDS RUSHING 118 112
Rushing attempts 27 30
Average gain per rush 4.4 3.7
Tackles for loss-yards 1-2 0-0
NET YARDS PASSING 247 138
Times sacked: Number-Yards 4-25 2-17
Gross passing yards 272 155
PASS ATTEMPTS-COMPLETIONS-HAD INTERCEPTED 32-22-1 30-14-2
Avg gain per pass play 6.9 4.3
KICKOFFS: Number-In End Zone-Touchbacks 6-2-0 4-2-0
PUNTS: Number and Average 4-43.5 4-50.0
Had blocked 0 0
Net punting average 36.3 50.0
TOTAL RETURN YARDAGE (Not including kickoffs) 52 3
Number-Yards: Punt Returns 3-29 0-0
Number-Yards: Kickoff Returns 4-102 6-158
Number-Yards: Interception Returns 2-23 1-3
PENALTIES: Number-Yards 6-55 5-41
FUMBLES: Number-Lost 2-0 0-0
TOUCHDOWNS 4 1
Rushing 1 0
Passing 3 1
Interceptions 0 0
Other (blocked kicks, etc.) 0 0
EXTRA POINTS: Made-Attempts 4-4 1-1
Kicking: Made-Attempts 4-4 1-1
Passing: Made-Attempts 0-0 0-0
Rushing: Made-Attempts 0-0 0-0
FIELD GOALS: Made-Attempts 1-1 2-2
FGs - PATs had blocked 0-0 0-0
RED ZONE EFFICIENCY 4-6-67% 0-2-0%
GOAL TO GO EFFICIENCY 3-3-100% 0-0-0%
SAFETIES 0 0
TIME OF POSSESSION 29:24 30:36


INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

INDIANAPOLIS ATLANTA

RUSHING ATT YDS AVG LG TD RUSHING ATT YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
K KEITH 17 74 4.4 17 0 W DUNN 17 70 4.1 9 0
J ADDAI 10 44 4.4 9 1 J NORWOOD 6 33 5.5 14 0
J SNELLING 4 6 1.5 3 0
J HARRINGT 2 3 1.5 4 0
O MUGHELLI 1 0 0.0 0 0

PASSING CM-AT-YDS IN TD LG PASSING CM-AT-YDS IN TD LG
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
P MANNING 22-32-272 1 3 35 J HARRINGT 14-30-155 2 1 48

Sacked-Yards Lost: P MANNING 4-25. Sacked-Yards Lost: J HARRINGT 2-17.

RECEIVING NO YDS AVG LG TD RECEIVING NO YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
A GONZALEZ 6 105 17.5 35 0 R WHITE 6 104 17.3 48 1
R WAYNE 5 66 13.2 23 1 A CRUMPLER 3 14 4.7 6 0
D CLARK 5 49 9.8 19 1 W DUNN 2 10 5.0 6 0
B UTECHT 4 38 9.5 13 1 M JENKINS 1 9 9.0 9 0
J ADDAI 2 14 7.0 8 0 O MUGHELLI 1 9 9.0 9 0
J NORWOOD 1 9 9.0 9 0

INTERCEPTIONS NO YDS AVG LG TD INTERCEPTIONS NO YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
R BOIMAN 1 26 26.0 26 0 D HALL 1 3 3.0 3 0
K HAYDEN 1 -3 -3.0 0 0

PUNTING NO YDS AVG T I LG PUNTING NO YDS AVG T I LG
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
H SMITH 4 174 43.5 1 2 45 M KOENEN 4 200 50.0 0 1 52

T = Touchbacks, I = Inside 20

PUNT RETURNS NO YDS AVG LG TD PUNT RETURNS NO YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
T RUSHING 3 29 9.7 12 0

KICKOFF RETURNS NO YDS AVG LG TD KICKOFF RETURNS NO YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
C THORPE 4 102 25.5 28 0 J NORWOOD 6 158 26.3 37 0

KICKING XP/XPA FG/FGA KICKING XP/XPA FG/FGA
---------------------------------- ----------------------------------
A VINATIER 4/4 1/1 M ANDERSEN 1/1 2/2
Dist.: 24 Dist.: 34 30

O-D O-D
FUMBLES NO LOST FF REC FUMBLES NO LOST FF REC
------------------------------------ ------------------------------------
K HAYDEN 1 0 0 0-0 M BOLEY 0 0 1 0-0
P MANNING 1 0 0 1-0
B SANDERS 0 0 0 1-0

DEFENSE TK SO AS SK-YD DEFENSE TK SO AS SK-YD
------------------------------------ ------------------------------------
G BRACKETT 13 11 2 0-0 M BOLEY 9 8 1 3-20
B SANDERS 6 6 0 0-0 D WILLIAMS 6 6 0 0-0
F KEIAHO 5 5 0 0-0 K BROOKING 6 5 1 1-5
Q PITCOCK 4 4 0 0-0 D HALL 5 5 0 0-0
T RUSHING 4 3 1 0-0 C HOUSTON 4 4 0 0-0
R BROCK 3 3 0 1-9 J ANDERSON 4 4 0 0-0
A BETHEA 3 3 0 0-0 L MILLOY 4 3 1 0-0
E JOHNSON 3 1 2 0-0 C CROCKER 3 3 0 0-0
R BOIMAN 2 2 0 0-0 M STANLEY 3 2 1 0-0
K HAYDEN 2 2 0 0-0 J ABRAHAM 2 2 0 0-0
R MATHIS 2 1 1 0-0 C DAVIS 2 2 0 0-0
S RICE 1 1 0 1-8 T ANDERSON 2 1 1 0-0
M JACKSON 1 1 0 0-0 L SANDERS 1 1 0 0-0
J BABINEAUX 1 1 0 0-0
J WILLIAMS 1 1 0 0-0

Officials: Referee-Mike Carey, Umpire-Dan Ferrell, Head Linesman-Kent
Payne, Line Judge-Mark Perlman, Field Judge-Buddy Horton, Side
Judge-Tom Fincken, Back Judge-Bill Schmitz.

Att: 69,845 Time of Game: 2:55</div>

 

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<div class="pre">NFL INDIANAPOLIS AT ATLANTA
NOTE: RESENDING BOX TO CORRECT FUMBLE RECOVERIES FOR
SANDERS.</div>