INDIANAPOLIS — The chants began early, gradually intensified and crescendoed with a balance-defying 80-yard tiptoe down the left sideline.

MVP, MVP, MVP.

Shane Steichen heard it.

“I did,’’ he said.

MVP, MVP, MVP.

And?

“Validated,’’ he said.

Steichen’s smile reflected his appreciation — and awe — with the latest MVP-type game in what’s building toward a possible MVP season.

Michael Pittman Jr. heard the chorus and might have been leading the chants after Steichen pulled Taylor and several other starters in the fourth quarter of the Indianapolis Colts’ 38-14 dismantling of the Tennessee Titans Sunday at Lucas Oil Stadium.

It was much easier than it looked. Sort of like Taylor’s spectacularly efficient abuse of the Titans: 153 yards and touchdown runs of 18 and 80 yards on just 12 ca

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