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T.Y. Hilton apologizes for throwing Colts O-line under bus after Sunday’s loss

The Indianapolis Colts were humiliated at home Sunday in a shutout loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars. Afterwards T.Y. Hilton threw his offensive line under the bus.

On Monday, the wide receiver, who’s been pretty bad himself recently, was contrite. He apologized for his remarks, saying, “100 percent I messed up.”

“First and foremost I apologize to the team and the O-line,” Hilton said, per Mike Chappell of IndySportsCentral.com. “Those (comments) were out of character. Frustrated how the game went. At the end of the day, man, I’ve got their back. I love ‘em to death. I was wrong. I’m always against that, then I go out there and do it. 100 percent I messed up. It’s on me and I’m sorry for that. I’m a leader and those guys look up to me and I kind of stabbed them in the back. For me, I’m very sorry about that. I’ll approach them individually one-on-one and just them know I was 100 percent, dead-ass wrong.”

No doubt Hilton’s initial comments will be hard for his teammates to forget. It’s been a brutal season for everyone in that locker room, and it’s never okay to throw your teammates under the bus like that. However, it takes a man to admit when he’s wrong, and clearly Hilton is doing that here.

Indianapolis is currently 2-5 on the season, its only wins coming against the hapless Cleveland Browns and San Francisco 49ers, both of whom are winless. With news that Andrew Luck won’t play until at least late November (he shouldn’t play at all this year), things aren’t going to get any better, any time soon.

Now’s the time when players need to band together and suffer this burden as a group, not fight among themselves. Hopefully the Colts can put this all behind them and do just that. If not, then it’s going to be a brutal second half of the 2017 season.

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