When they're right, they're right, right? DeForest Buckner was right, and now, Cam Bynum is right. What do you do when your own fans rain down boo's upon your helmets? Take a page from Buckner and Bynum: admit your team isn't playing well enough, and the hometown fans deserve better. They can't play, so they do what they can: boo, and they’re right.
Hearing your home crowd boo can demoralize players, but it's how you know just how bad things are sometimes. The Indianapolis Colts are playing bad football collectively, and after a second consecutive loss, this time to the Tennessee Titans, it's their lowest point of the season.
Buckner, the Colts' long-standing veteran, lamented the performance as essentially the same movie being played year after year. It's what the Colts fans have been accustomed to over the past five years. Buckner gets it, and so does Bynum, who couldn't disagree with the fans' reaction on Sunday.
Cam Bynum is on the same page as the Indianapolis Colts' fan base
The Colts could have, and should have, beaten the Titans on Sunday, but squandered a 13-point lead at the half and went on to lose 26-20 to their previously winless AFC South division rival. It's not as if the Titans played a good game either, as Cam Ward continues to look nothing like the franchise quarterback the team hoped he would become.
Simply put, the Colts blew it, and Chris Ballard paid the price off the field, being fired as general manager on Monday. On the field, Daniel Jones's two interceptions gave the game away, essentially, and the passing attack failed to produce anything convincing.
As expected, Indianapolis fans had none of it and made sure their team knew it. After the game, Bynum responded to the fans' response and didn't fight it. Instead, he agreed with their frustration and shared a little of his own.
"We're just as frustrated as them," Bynum said. "We got to give them a reason to not boo us."
The loss dropped the Colts to 2-4—Colts fans have plenty of reasons to boo aside from losing to the Titans. Things don't look good for a team hoping to end its five-year playoff drought. With Ballard out, more changes should be expected as long as these same results continue.
As for Bynum, he was one of the few Colts players who held up his end against the Titans, picking off Ward once to set up a Spencer Shrader field goal. It was Bynum's first interception this season; he had four total last year. This week, he'll gear up with the rest of the Colts' defense to play his former team, the Minnesota Vikings, on the road in Week 7.
Given how Jones and the Colts’ offense have struggled in the passing game this season, it could get considerably worse against Brian Flores and the Vikings' stellar defence.
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