MINNEAPOLIS -- Zaire Franklin stood in the midst of a stunned locker room and tried to make sense of an unprecedented situation.
Despite his best efforts, the Colts linebacker failed.
"You give it literally everything you have, you've been through a whole lot of adversity," he said. "We've been hearing everybody talk about us like we're a punchline and we took that very personal ... For the game to go the way it did at the end, it's definitely a tough, tough pill to swallow."
That was Franklin trying to put the biggest blown lead in NFL history into perspective as the Colts suffered yet another historic loss in what's becoming a pattern for the struggling team.