The 32 things we learned from Week 9 of the 2025 NFL season:
1. No lead is safe, no team is as good as you might think and maybe none are as bad, either.
2. The Indianapolis Colts, at 7-1, entered the weekend with the league’s best record … and got handled 27-20 in Pittsburgh by a Steelers squad coming off consecutive losses.
3. Admittedly, I was wrong about Indy – I thought the Colts would be picking near the top of the draft in 2026, not competing in the playoffs … in all likelihood. But they had gotten awfully fat on a schedule packed with low-nutrition opponents like the Dolphins, Raiders and Titans (twice).
4. Facing a Pittsburgh defense that was among the league’s most woeful – and the NFL’s worst against the pass – going into Sunday, Indianapolis QB Daniel Jones (5 turnovers) played not like a potential Most Valuable Player candidate but like the New York Giants version of himself facing the Steel Curtain. That performance helped render fellow MVP aspirant Jonathan Taylor into a mere mortal – 57 yards from scrimmage and nary a TD.
