FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The call Colts coach Shane Steichen made to beat the Patriots is the kind a coach dreams of making. The aggressive play, the confident move, the sort of decision that earns a coach a reputation as a gambler. The call at the end of the ...

Sometimes the rarity of the moment plays tricks with the memory. It’s called selective amnesia. Exhibit A: Shane Steichen’s all-or-nothing decision with 12 seconds remaining Sunday at Gillette Stadium and his Indianapolis Colts trailing the New England Patriots 24-23.

At the end of October, questions lingered on Bryce Young’s availability on the trade market, and Anthony Richardson was in the process of being benched. Few talked much about the potential for the first and fourth picks in the 2023 NFL draft to bounce back, and show why they were taken that high in the first place.

After the narrow victory of the Indianapolis Colts over the New England Patriots in Foxborough, HC Shane Steichen made something clear about Anthony Richardson's current level of play. The Indianapolis Colts secured an important victory over the New England Patriots last weekend,

Richardson guided the Colts on a game-winning drive that he finished with a dramatic two-point conversion in Sunday's 25-24 victory at the New England Patriots.

It took a lot of cojones for Steichen to call that, with all that has transpired this season, the fact that a loss would basically end the season, and perhaps even his tenure as the Colts’ head-coach,