4 things to know about Patriots vs. Colts ahead of Week 13 battle

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The New England Patriots and Indianapolis Colts are acceptable to conscionable connected Sunday astatine Gillette Stadium for a Week 13 matchup that could person large implications for some teams adjacent though they're some extracurricular of the playoffs close now.

New England has enactment unneurotic a 3-9 grounds done their archetypal 12 games, which is adjacent the bottommost of the league. A nonaccomplishment would assistance them instrumentality adjacent the apical of adjacent year's draught portion a triumph could physique immoderate assurance successful Jerod Mayo and his coaching staff.

Indianapolis is inactive successful the hunt, arsenic their 5-7 grounds has them conscionable 2 spots backmost of the last playoff spot successful the AFC, which the Denver Broncos presently hold. If they down the Patriots, they could shrink that spread and marque it easier to clinch a postseason berth.

Before we get to the game, let's instrumentality a look astatine a fewer things fans should cognize up of time.

Rankings

Points scored per game

New England: 16.4 (31st)
Indianapolis: 20.2 (22nd)

Points allowed per game

New England: 23.5 (19th)
Indianapolis: 22.8 (16th)

Yards gained per game

New England: 280.2 (32nd)
Indianapolis: 316.3 (22nd)

Yards allowed per game

New England: 347.5 (22nd)
Indianapolis: 375.8 (28th)

History

New England and Indianapolis person faced disconnected 84 times, arsenic they utilized to beryllium successful the aforesaid division. The Patriots won 53 of their meetings and are 31-13 arsenic the location team. The 2 clubs past met past twelvemonth successful Germany with the Colts taking the contention 10-6 successful an disfigured 1 for fans to watch.

Injury concerns

While the Patriots ruled retired conscionable 1 subordinate (offensive lineman Cole Strange) for this weekend, they listed these 9 players arsenic questionable:

WR Demario Douglas (ankle)
S Kyle Dugger (ankle)
LB Christian Elliss (knee)
LB Anfernee Jennings (knee)
OT Vederian Lowe (shoulder)
S Jabrill Peppers (knee)
DL Jaquelin Roy (neck)
LB Sione Takitaki (knee)
DE Deatrich Wise Jr. (foot)

The Colts person conscionable 1 subordinate listed arsenic questionable (wide receiver Alec Pierce), but they ruled retired these 4 players:

C Tanor Bortolini (concussion)
WR Josh Downs (shoulder)
WR Ashton Dulin (ankle)
OT Braden Smith (personal)

Connections

Colts wide receivers manager Reggie Wayne spent a grooming campy with the Patriots successful 2015.
Colts violative lineman Atonio Mafi played for the Patriots successful 2023.
Colts linebacker Cameron McGrone played for the Patriots from 2021-22.
Patriots backmost Jacoby Brissett played for the Colts from 2017-20.
Patriots antiaircraft lineman Eric Johnson II played for the Colts from 2022-23.
Patriots linebacker Titus Leo played for the Colts successful 2023.
Patriots antiaircraft extremity Yannick Ngakoue played for the Colts successful 2022.