The Broncos led 17-3 at halftime.
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On the other hand, if the team wins out the rest of the season and finish 14-2, with the No. 1 seed and homefield advantage, the Broncos would be unwise to make a sudden change at quarterback after a seven-game stretch behind Osweiler.
“No one blinked with this being a road game”. Remember when everyone kept wishing that Manning would have to miss time, and Brock Osweiler would see the field? I feel like we just stuck with it. We didn’t blink. He was intercepted once. The Broncos appeared well equipped to continue their dominant run so long as they remained healthy.
Which naturally led someone to ask if McCoy, now 21-23 as the Chargers head coach, if he had been offered an extension, and if he anticipated returning in 2016.
Quarterback Philip Rivers was 18 of 35 for 202 yards. Melvin Gordon coughed it up at the Denver 43, and on the next drive Broncos cornerback Bradley Roby stripped the ball from Malcom Floyd after a catch at the Denver 42, with safety Darian Stewart recovering. “When you’re making plays and your teammates are going out there and making plays, it’s fun”, Miller said.
“It’s kind of sad not being there for him because he is so good”, Floyd said.
For the duration of the season, no defensive unit has struck more fear in opposing coaches than the Broncos defense. We’ve got one of the top defenses and he goes against those guys and doesn’t flinch. We couldn’t finish drives and then we had the turnovers. “As a defense we have to challenge ourselves because we made some mistakes and allowed ourselves to be in a shootout, and that is something we can’t have as a defense”.
The last-place Chargers are 0-2 in the division, and only 3-8 overall.
At first blush, purposefully leaving Peyton Manning on the bench seems like a ludicrous thing to do but Osweiler (in a small sample size) has shown signs of being a legitimate National Football League quarterback.
Yet San Diego wasn’t out of it, matching a Brandon McManus field goal with Josh Lambo’s 51-yarder before the end of the half to make it 17-3. For the fifth straight home game, San Diego played in front of a crowd largely, if not mostly, composed of fans of the visiting team. Let’s just say that a lot of people felt like Rivers was being a little female dog (if you catch my drift). “It was a bad play all the way the around”.
“The main thing was to start fast”, Thomas said.
Brock Osweiler had himself a decent day following the biggest victory of his pro career, completing 16-of-26 passes for 166 yards, a touchdown and an interception.
“We’ve gotten used to it, unfortunately, and us not winning doesn’t help”, said a resigned Rivers.
“Oh my god, it was unbelievable how much orange”, he said. I’m truly taking this just one week at a time….
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Four of their last five games will be against AFC West rivals, including the Broncos twice. Although the number of losses overall is what disappoints Rivers. The line stinks and the Chargers look like a decent option. Denver had 77 plays, New England 61.
