QB Peyton Manning isn’t thinking about the Indianapolis Colts’ playoff possibilities.

Now, he said, isn’t the time. Not yet.

The Colts, one of two remaining unbeaten teams in the NFL along with New Orleans, can extend the NFL’s longest active postseason streak Sunday. If they beat the Houston Texans and Jacksonville loses to San Francisco, the Colts will not only make the postseason for the eighth consecutive season, they will clinch a sixth AFC South title in seven seasons.

But Manning said that’s not the focus around the Colts.

“I truly think we have taken it one week at a time,” Manning said Wednesday afternoon as the Colts (10-0) prepared to play the Texans (5-5) in an AFC South game at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas, Sunday at 1 p.m. “One thing that [first-year Colts Head] Coach [Jim] Caldwell doesn’t do, he doesn’t post where we are in the division. He doesn’t really give us the weekly update. He just talks about this game and says ‘Let’s count them up at the end.’

“I think the team has taken on that approach and is just truly worried about the next game in front of us every single week.”

The Colts, who also lead the AFC by three games over San Diego (7-3), New England (7-3) and Cincinnati (7-3), won five consecutive South titles from 2003-2007, making the postseason as a wild card in 2002 and 2008.

“What I talk to them about are the things that put is in position to win,” Caldwell said. “I don’t talk necessarily about what’s going to happen after we win. We try not to get ahead of ourselves. We figure if we prepare like we’ve been preparing, if we focus in on getting better and if we prepare to win, those other things will take care of themselves – we’ll talk about those when the season’s over.”

Said Manning, “I . . . READ MORE