{"id":46256,"date":"2026-01-04T22:34:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T22:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=46256"},"modified":"2026-01-04T22:34:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T22:34:22","slug":"indianapolis-colts-kicker-tried-to-make-a-tackle-and-it-ended-up-being-the-worst-decision-of-his-career-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=46256","title":{"rendered":"Indianapolis Colts Kicker Tried To Make A Tackle, And It Ended Up Being The Worst Decision of His Career [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/indianapolis-colts\/\">Indianapolis Colts<\/a> are playing for absolutely nothing in Week 18, but they are playing hard.<\/p>\n<p>Going against the playoff-bound <a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/houston-texans\/\">Houston Texans<\/a>, the team is fighting hard in every facet of the game. Even the kicker is going hard in the game.<\/p>\n<p>At one point during the game, the Colts kicked the ball off to Texans returner Jaylin Noel. He had a nice return that got back to kicker Blake Grupe. He would proceed to make a terrible decision, trying to tackle him.<\/p>\n<p>The 5-foot-7, 150-pound Indianapolis Colts\u2019 kicker threw his shoulder into Noel, and it did absolutely nothing. Groupe went flying and spun in the air.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">5-foot-7 150-pound kicker Blake Grupe tried to make a tackle on a Texans player and got RAN OVER.<\/p>\n<p>Grupe flew 10 yards in the air \ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wRL5DO0sIS\">pic.twitter.com\/wRL5DO0sIS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFL_DovKleiman\/status\/2007906282041487388?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s a terrible ending for the Colts. In November, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/sauce-gardner-blockbuster-trade-new-york-jets-deal-superstar-cb\/\">New York Jets shocked the NFL world by trading Sauce to the Indianapolis Colts.<\/a> They had the best record in the entire league at the time. Indianapolis was coming off a loss to the Steelers, which dropped them to 7-2.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-md-margin-top has-md-margin-bottom\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As of Week 18, the team has eight wins. They will not be going to the playoffs for a team that had <a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/tag\/super-bowl\/\">Super Bowl<\/a> aspirations. The team would finish with eight wins after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/boxscore\/_\/gameId\/401772962\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">losing<\/a> to the Texans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indianapolis Colts are playing for absolutely nothing in Week 18, but they are playing hard. Going against the playoff-bound Houston Texans, the team is fighting hard in every facet &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46258,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46256\/revisions\/46258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}