Nearly everyone I talk to still thinks the Colts are among the five best teams in the NFl still, or at least darned close, and most people seem to think they are good enough to keep their reign over the AFC South. But the injury to C Jeff Saturday -- compounded with all they have gone through to date -- makes me really concerned about their season.

The reports are that he'll either miss roughly six weeks (if he rests) or close to 11 weeks (if he has surgery), and neither situation is that encouraging. QB Peyton Manning, who's no sure bet to play a week from Sunday night, has an almost psychic link with Saturday, much as he does with WR Marvin Harrison, another Colt coming off an injury as it turns out.

Manning and Saturday are perhaps the best QB-center tandem of the past decade, and when it comes to protections and calling audibles at the line, there might nary be a better pair.

Are the Colts, with all their defensive injuries too, in jeopardyof losing their grip on the division? You've got the Jags, oh so close the past couple of years, right on their heels. You have a Titans team that nearly beat them twice last season, has defensive talent and are as well coached as any club in the league. And please, please do not snooze on the Texans, who I feel might be the division's big surprise this season, and I regret picking them a strong fourth in the South.