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The Colts Still Check Gillette Stadium Locker Rooms For Bugs

The Indianapolis Colts have a talented team and one of the best young quarterbacks in the league in Andrew Luck. They've had three straight 11-5 seasons to star Luck's career and have emerged as one of the bigger threats in the AFC.

So why is it that the Colts look so utterly inept and get blown off the field like a JV squad every time they face the Patriots?

The Colts have lost their four games against the Patriots in the Luck era (including playoffs) by a combined score of 189-73, and one of those games was in Indy on national TV. The main issue is their defense can't stop anything the Patriots offense throws (or runs) at them, but they also reportedly get a little distracted when they visit Gillette Stadium.

Colts beat writer Bob Kravitz, aka the man who broke DeflateGate and one of the most hated writers in New England these days, tweeted Friday afternoon that the Colts today are just as fearful as Peyton Manning was about the Patriots bugging their locker rooms:

Looks like Peyton's paranoia rubbed off on the rest of the organization. If this doesn't scream of desperation, what does?

Bill Belichick has to be sitting back and reading this stuff chuckling to himself. He's probably happy that teams think he bugs the locker rooms, since that can bring unnecessary distractions. Besides, Belichick doesn't need bugs when he's already taking up space in your mind.

Presumably, the Colts have never found anything resembling a recording device in their locker rooms if they're still looking over a decade later. They should probably give that up and worry more about what they're going to do on the field against the Patriots, because they haven't come close to figuring that part out yet.

Matt Dolloff is a digital producer for CBSBostonSports.com. Read more from Matt here and follow him on Twitter @mattdolloff.

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