IndyStar's Gregg Doyel and Stephen Holder discuss the Indianapolis Colts' 16-10 loss to the Houston Texans. Clark Wade / IndyStar.com
Griff Whalen is the face of this failure. He’s also the body of this failure. Ribs, mainly. Broken, most likely.
He’s a patsy, though. Failure’s fall guy.
It’s not his fault.
“But it feels like that right now,” said Whalen, barely able to move, struggling even to breathe after a vicious hit by the Houston Texans’ Johnathan Joseph dislodged the ball from his hands – and most likely a rib or two from his sternum – in the fourth quarter.