Going for it was absolutely right the call. On the Colts' 2 other drives in the 4th quarter (I'm excluding the one that resulted in a pick on the 1st play), they went 79 yards both times, both in under 2 minutes using 0 timeouts. There was absolutely no reason to believe --none, zero, zip, nada-- that Peyton wouldn't have led another 70 yard scoring drive in 2 minutes, especially with TO's in his pocket. Punting the ball back to Manning was giving the game away. Going for it was the best chance of winning that game, because it was the only thing that had a possibility of keeping the ball away from Manning.

Unfortunately, everything leading up to the 4th down was a clusterfuck. The timeouts and the play calling on the 1st 3 downs were just downright awful.