NFL wagering anticipations continue to be high for the potential of the defending AFC champion Colts for the 2010 Football wagering season ahead. Football wagering oddsmakers know that any assessment of the Indianapolis Colts commences with super star quarterback Peyton Manning, yet that he’s not enough to complete the Football wagering puzzle.

Manning was the 2009 NFL Most Valuable Player Award champion and appears to age like a fine wine. However the Colts were outclassed in their Super Bowl loss vs the New Orleans Saints after they barely escaped the AFC Championship Game versus the upstart New York Jets.

The persistent lack of a reliable running game was one of the major problems that prevented Indianapolis from completing their goal of a second Super Bowl title. And that is the leading priority for the Indianapolis Colts throughout preseason is to establish a ground attack to compliment Manning.

Indianapolis is a top choice with the Football preseason odds to win the AFC however they are an aging team with several question marks and the lack of a ground game will mean that it’s improbable that they can return to the Super Bowl this year.

Indianapolis Colts President Bill Polian has tried to downplay the Colts running game concern. “In truth, I think this is a non-issue,” said Polian. “Would we like to be better at it? Yes, absolutely, and there are specific areas where we can get better. Is it a problem? No.” The Colts enter the 2010 year as 1 of the most regular franchises in the NFL with a string of 8 straight seasons in which they have won at least 10 games straight up. Despite their aging participants, they still have a pretty sound history behind them. The squad has had winning seasons for 10 of the last 11 seasons and Peyton Manning has been named MVP four times. They proceeded to the Super Bowl in the 2006 season and won that versus the Chicago Bears with a final score of 29-17. They did lose last year’s Super Bowl to the New Orleans Saints, but it actually shouldn’t have happened that way. They have won their division a number of times over the last decade and come in second a few more. The squad itself is typically solid amongst Football picks and surely should still be viewed as a contender in football gambling.

But there’s a concern that the Indianapolis Colts can not sustain results with the football odds lacking a ground attack as they have had to resort to going to the shotgun formation on short yardage and conceded to defenses that they can not get the yardage on the ground.

As the Saints just disregarded the run and focused on Manning and the air attack, this was a big issue in the Super Bowl. Manning appears to disagree with his boss on the value of the issue and wants more balance for the 2010 NFL wagering season.

“I want to be balanced,” Manning said. “I don’t want to go out there and throw it 50 times. If we’re throwing every single play, it’s playing to the defenses advantage.”