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NY Giants vs Indianapolis Colts predictions: Our Week 17 expert picks for MetLife finale

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December 24, 2024

NY Giants vs Indianapolis Colts predictions: Our Week 17 expert picks for MetLife finale

Following another blowout loss in a 34-7 defeat against the Falcons (8-7) on Sunday, the Giants (2-13) made history for all the wrong reasons — losing 10 consecutive games for the first time in their centennial season as an NFL franchise.

If the Giants were to lose their final two games, they’d put a stamp on their fewest wins and go winless at home for the first time in a half century (2-12 in 1974) but most importantly, would own the No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft in April.

Facing the Giants in their regular-season finale at MetLife Stadium will be the Colts (7-8), who are fighting for their playoff lives, currently two games back of the No. 7-seed Broncos with two weeks left.

Our prognosticators throughout the season are: Art Stapleton (Giants/NFL writer, NorthJersey.com), Bert Bainbridge (sports betting analyst/columnist, NorthJersey.com), Steve Edelson (columnist, APP.com), Vince Mercogliano (Rangers/NHL columnist, lohud.com), Brian Marron (digital producer, NorthJersey.com), Chris Iseman (Rutgers writer, NorthJersey.com), Bob Jordan (sports editor, Asbury Park Press/APP.com), and Dave Rivera (sports editor, USA TODAY Northeast/NorthJersey.com).

Our staff standings entering NFL Week 17

Dave Rivera: 12-3

Steve Edelson: 10-3

Vincent Mercogliano: 9-3

Art Stapleton: 10-5

Chris Iseman: 9-5

Bert Bainbridge, Brian Marron: 9-6

Bob Jordan: 5-10

Here are our staff picks and predictions for Giants vs. Colts in Week 17:

Art Stapleton

The pick: Colts 28, Giants 17

Here’s why: You can’t turn the ball over three times at quarterback and expect to win. Drew Lock threw a pair of Pick 6s in Atlanta, and while one of them was in part the result of the offensive line caving in, those kind of turnovers are impossible to overcome. The Giants would love to avoid becoming the first team in NFL history to lose all nine of its games at home since the league added a 17^th game to the schedule. The Giants were last winless at home in 1974 when they played in the Yale Bowl in Connecticut, finishing 0-7. The Colts are still alive in the hunt for an AFC playoff spot, but they need a lot of help.

Bert Bainbridge

The pick: Colts 27, Giants 23

Here’s why: The Giants have only put up 20 points once since their bye in Week 11. Starting QB Drew Lock has more pick-sixes (3) than touchdown passes (1) and total wins the G-Men have on the season (2). Even still, the Colts just surrendered 30 points to a Mason Rudolph-led Titans team at home.

Big Blue will scare fans that desperately want the No. 1 overall pick, but ultimately Indianapolis is able to hold off the Giants, sending them to an 0-9 record at home in what’s been another lost season for the Giants.

Steve Edelson

The pick: Colts 22, Giants 6

Here’s why: The Giants are in the midst of an historic season, for all the wrong reasons. But if going winless at home helps them get the No. 1 pick in the draft, then so be it.

Bob Jordan

The pick: Colts 30, Giants 10

Here’s why: The 1988 Dallas Cowboys and the 2008 St. Louis Rams share the NFL record for the longest losing streak of regular season home games at 14 straight games. The Giants still have to lose this week and drop their first five games at Met Lifeless next season to get to 14 but there’s hope.

Dave Rivera

The pick: Colts 23, Giants 16

Here’s why: Nobody wants to go winless at home, but nobody benefits by winning this game either. Not that the Giants aren’t trying, but utter lack of talent and ability is keeping this team down.

Chris Iseman

The pick: Colts 27, Giants 7

Here’s why: The Giants are a bad football team. That’s not changing against the Colts. Or at all this season.

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Indianapolis police shoot homicide suspect following pursuit

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May 29, 2026

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Indianapolis police shoot homicide suspect following pursuit

The suspect was wanted in connection with the shooting death of a woman earlier in the evening.
The suspect was taken to the hospital in stable condition after being shot by officers.
Two firearms were recovered at the scene of the police-involved shooting.

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Indianapolis police shot a homicide suspect after a vehicle pursuit that ended west of downtown near Interstate 70.

Just before 8:30 p.m. May 28, 2026 Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers were dispatched to a shooting in the first block of North Rural Street. Arriving officers found Patricia Wieber, 65, with gunshot wounds. Wieber was pronounced dead after being taken to the hospital.

Witnesses were able to give police information about the shooter and officers tracked the suspect to the 7500 block of Bullock Court on the city’s south side. The suspect, identified by police as Ronald Cross, 75, got into a different vehicle with another man. While tracking that vehicle officers attempted a traffic stop near West Southport and Bluff roads. The driver, who is not implicated in the homicide, got out of the vehicle without incident and was taken into custody.

Police said Cross then slid into the vehicle’s driver seat and fled. Officers used stop sticks and then in the 1000 block of South Harding Street near I-70 a SWAT officer used a vehicle to perform a PIT maneuver to stop the SUV, said Kendale Adams, IMPD deputy chief of criminal investigations.

After the vehicle was stopped officers shot the suspect, Adams said. Cross was taken to the hospital in stable condition. No officers were injured.

Adams said two firearms were located at the scene.

During a news conference at the scene, Indianapolis police chief Tanya Terry extended her thoughts to the family of Wieber who was killed in what police believe was a domestic violence situation. She also praised her officers’ handling of the situation.

“[Our officers] did exactly what our community expects them do to in situations like this,” Terry said. “Our officers worked with bravery, coordination and precision in their attempts to safely bring the suspect into custody. I’m extremely proud of them for the work that they’ve done.”

The chief added that Cross would be facing charges in the case and police confirmed hours later that Cross was arrested on a murder charge.

The shooting involving police was among a string of shootings across the city, including one downtown roughly two hours before that left a man in critical condition.

“It’s been a difficult night for our city,” Terry said.

The officers involved in shooting Cross have been placed on administrative leave, per department policy. The Civilian Use of Force Review Board will have a hearing on the shooting and body and dash cameras were activated during the shooting, Adams said.

It is unclear whether Cross fired at officers and what makes and models of firearms were found by police.

Asked those questions by IndyStar, an unnamed IMPD spokesperson did not provide additional information and instead referred to a press release that did not contain the answers.

This is the fourth shooting involving Indianapolis police since the start of the year.

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IOWA BLANKED IN INDIANAPOLIS

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May 29, 2026

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The Iowa Cubs (23-30) were shutout by the Indianapolis Indians (22-32) by a 3-0 score tonight at Victory Field.
Indianapolis scored all three of their runs in the fifth inning on a single from Billy Cook and a two-run home run from Ronny Simon. It marked the third time the

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National list names Indianapolis burger one of best in country

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May 28, 2026

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National list names Indianapolis burger one of best in country

A standout burger can come from unexpected places, as evidenced by one Indianapolis restaurant whose unconventional take on the American classic has earned it a spot on a national USA Today list.

There’s only one burger on the menu at the recently reimagined Inferno Room in Fountain Square, but it’s a good one.

Chef José Plasencia’s rendition of the Cuban frita, a beef-chorizo burger defined by a topping of fried shoestring potatoes, joined heavy hitters from across the country on USA TODAY’s pantheon of patties.

The USA Today list included places like Mr. Bartley’s Burgers, a veritable institution in Cambridge, Massachusetts as well as Jay’s Burgers in Louisville and Sacred Beast in Cincinnati.

Indianapolis’ best-known burger spot, the more than century-old Workingman’s Friend, did not make the national list but appeared alongside the Inferno Room on USA TODAY’s roundup of exemplary Midwest burgers. Both were featured on IndyStar’s list of 10 burgers to try around town.

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