James Cochran’s Blog

The Colts loss yesterday was disappointing.  There is no question about it.  I think I read somewhere that this is the first 1-2 start since 1998 when Manning was a rookie.  To me, however, the Colts looked the best they have all season.  The offense came out firing, the defense was doing well with a three and out off the bat.  As for stopping the run they were able to do… but when they didn’t they really didn’t.  So many times they had three or four guys on top of the runner at or behind the line.  The problem is when they missed the tackle or played the pass.  Jacksonville was able to really break off big chunks of yards when that happened which killed us.  So while the loss is disappointing it was nice to see the opening minutes of the game and feel like the Colts were back.  The rest of the game was so-so and about how I would expect us to play against Jacksonville.  Going in I said Jacksonville would want it more than us.  

Let’s take a look at the rest of the season courtesy of Colts.com.  After this weeks bye I think we have a good shot of winning the next couple of games.  Obviously the Packers worry me but I think we’ll have the confidence going in that we can do it.  Division champs may be a different story though.

Yes, the android phone cometh.  on October 22nd those of you on T-Mobile or willing to switch will be able to get your hands on the HTC Dream aka the T-Mobile G1.  There has been so much buzz around the open source operating system Android that it’s been crazy.  It’s nice to not only have an open source OS for smartphones but also to see that we are breaking free from Windows Mobile and what not.  I used Windows Mobile for years and can honestly tell you the experience was horrible.  Better than a palm but still teh suxor.  

A few quick stats about this phone:

• It has a 3.1 inch touch screen
• Much like an iPhone you can talk for 5 hours
• It’s got a camera, 3.1 megapixel to be exact.  That’s 1.1 more than I’ve got!
• You can get it in three amazing colors, White, Black, and poop Brown
• It’s got GPS… excellent
• It can take up to an 8 GB micro SD card
• It’s got an app store called the Android Market
• It’s open source meaning you’ll be able to get all sorts of functionality out of it
• Yes that includes YouTube, slacker.

So scrape together $179 or run to your nearest store and preorder it now!  I promise you I’ll be jealous even with my new iPhone.  I’ll just have to wait two years I guess