Despite the return to the practice field, the Denver Broncos stated that Brock Osweiler would start his fifth-consecutive game in Peyton Manning’s absence.
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The Broncos visit the Pittsburgh Steelers this week, and there’s a very good chance it’s the last we see of Osweiler if things go badly again.
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“I have to see where he’s at”, Kubiak said of Manning. “We’ll have a plan in place by the time we get to Wednesday”. The Broncos have only scored one touchdown in the past two games (a 17-3 win at the San Diego Chargers, when the Broncos defense scored on an interception, and a 15-12 loss to the Oakland Raiders, when the Broncos settled for four first-half field goals). Its the only game this weekend pitting teams with winning records.
Manning was 7-2 as the starter this season.
“I know that his foot has been sore since we left Indianapolis” on November 8, Kubiak said.
This is why Osweiler’s time to be the Broncos’ bona fide starting quarterback, one who can feel confident in his ownership of the role, may have to wait until next season.
“I’ll visit with Peyton here this afternoon before he leaves”, Kubiak said.
“I’m not going to sit here and try to play that whole game with the kid or the Texans or anything like that”, Pagano said.
Manning was held out of Friday’s practice as he recovers from a torn plantar fascia near his left heel. “And when we’re on the sideline, you’ve got Chris Harris, Aqib Talib, all those guys coming up trying to build us up, they’re not showing any animosity toward us because offensively we didn’t play well”. The Broncos have already announced this week that Osweiler will start for the team and that Manning likely would not be active against the Steelers.
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LeGarrette Blount, the top rusher for the reigning Super Bowl champion New England Patriots, will miss the remainder of the season with a hip injury, reports said Tuesday. But the Steelers represent a stern challenge because they are the first team with three potentially elite wide receivers – and a ground game that can force the Broncos’ edge rushers to pause and worry about setting the edge against a potential run, rather than attacking the quarterback with impunity. “He practiced on Wednesday, came out on Thursday and went about five minutes and said it was bothering him, so we shut him down”. Osweiler took five sacks in the last game and acknowledged he can do more to improve the Broncos’ passing attack – from making quicker reads or throwing the ball away rather than taking a sack.
