HOUSTON -- There's a series of rotating images on the TV screens in the Indianapolis Colts' locker room, and one of them is a picture of a mountain. The point, coach Frank Reich tells his team, is to visualize a mountaintop and the perpetual effort to reach the figurative one.
"It was pretty hard to see the mountaintop from the hole we were in at 1-5," Colts left tackle Anthony Castonzo said this week.
So Reich instructed them not to look for it. Back in October, when the Colts were 1-5 and looking every bit like the rebuilding team they were predicted to be, Reich's calm message stayed the same.