And by Monday afternoon, he was ruled out for next week’s game in Chicago.
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Manning will be inactive against the Bears, with rookie Trevor Siemian serving as Osweiler’s backup.
“I just think it’s the grind of the season, a bunch of bumps and bruises”, Kubiak said. By Peyton Manning standards, by any starting quarterback standards. He also has been suffering from shoulder and rib cage injuries.
Speaking on condition of anonymity because the Broncos haven’t addressed specifics of Manning’s injury, the person confirmed reports from ESPN and KCNC-TV in Denver that Manning has a tear in the thick tissue that connects the heel bone to the toes and creates the arch of the foot. No, he’s up there [Monday], he wants to go, he wants to do everything he can for his football team, and I knew that, I expected that.
But he still hopes to return after one week away.
“All the attention is toward getting (Manning) getting healthy”, Kubiak said. “We’ll see where everything stands next week”. But in the interim, Osweiler has his long-awaited shot. The injury will keep him out of next week’s game and then Manning will be given the opportunity to retake the Broncos’ reins if he’s capable. Ultimately, Ware didn’t play.
“There’s a few things a mobile guy can do that a guy that can continually stand in the pocket can’t, ” tight end Vernon Davis said. So, I’m going to continue to support him.
What an indignity. But now with the “injury”, the Broncos can hand the reigns to Osweiler against the Bears and delay the inevitable another week. Although it doesn’t explain why he thought he could make the throws in the first place.
“I’m not anxious about him”, running back Ronnie Hillman said.
A playoff run was always going to come down to Manning. He’s got to go out there. “That’s the offense I’m expecting to run”. Hillman had 42 yards rushing and one touchdown and over the past three games he has scored three touchdowns for the Broncos.
Galette will serve the ban immediately, while he is on injured reserve and ineligible to play, the league announced Monday. “But if it hurts, it’s better to step aside and get healthy for the back part of the season”.
“You see Brock yesterday”. “It takes you a little bit by surprise”. It was an emotional game.
QUOTE TO NOTE: “Peyton is our quarterback”.
Gary Kubiak showed the same understandable but unfortunate loyalty on Sunday.
Manning, as you nearly certainly know by now, came into Sunday two yards shy of Brett Favre’s all-time record of 71,838 career passing yards and finished (gulp) 33 yards clear of it. This prompted a special Sunday all-Peyton Manning edition of On the Numbers, in which I gave up on comparing him to players and instead compared him to entire franchises and draft classes. His status will be re-evaluated in a week.
-OLB DeMarcus Ware missed Sunday’s game because of a back injury. He is still considered day-to-day, but it would be a surprise if he returned to play against the Bears. Regardless of the prognosis and timetable, sitting him for the next seven weeks is Denver’s best course of action. Ray did not have a sack, but broke up a pass.
The last time Osweiler stepped on the field as a starter, he threw a 78-yard pass to Andre Caldwell down the seam for a touchdown in the Broncos’ preseason finale against Arizona. Latimer played extensively in relief of Emmanuel Sanders, who was limited to 23 snaps. That was before Manning’s four-interception disaster Sunday.
“There is nothing that replaces game reps and obviously I got a lot of live game reps against a great defense”, Osweiler said Sunday. When Manning had thrown nine touchdowns against 13 interceptions during the first half of the season, why wasn’t this brought up?
Offensively, the Broncos have to stay on Alshon Jeffery and stop him at all costs.
On the season, the Denver Broncos average 245.7 yards in passing and 86.0 yards in rushing. “The ensuing 10-second runoff should have ended the game”.
Never has a 7-2 team been surrounded by so much turmoil.
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With that in mind, would you believe that Brock Osweiler will be the 12th quarterback to start a game for Denver in the 21st century? Manning can still occasionally pull a big play out of nowhere and is physically very tough, but as a pure passer he clearly doesn’t have it anymore. Things just got worse from there for Manning and the Broncos.
