Brock Osweiler has stepped in for an ineffective and injured future Hall of Fame quarterback and has righted the ship for the Denver Broncos.
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Still, Denver Broncos’ head coach Gary Kubiak isn’t about to mess with the routine.
What’s been uprooted is the notion the Broncos would collapse without Manning, the five-time NFL MVP.
“I’m disappointed with the way we protected him the entire game, not just that one play”.
“Nothing will change this week, as far as Brock’s our starter”, Kubiak said. He was intercepted once.
“I don’t think he was happy with the cologne I was wearing, ” Miller deadpanned. So Gronkowski isn’t really “week-to-week” as his mom and aunt and cousins (the Gronkowski family, you see) told us a week ago.
Because the Eagles downed the Patriots and left them even in the loss column with Denver, if the Broncos win out they will have the #1 seed in the AFC which includes home-field advantage throughout the playoffs as November 29, the Broncos downed the Patriots 30-24 in overtime at Sports Authority Field at Mile High.
San Diego fell to 3-9 with its fifth straight home loss and its fifth straight loss against division foes. Philip Rivers completed 18 of 35 passes for 202 yards. Now NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has signaled that the Chargers’ 55-season run in San Diego could be close to ending.
Running back Melvin Gordon, the Chargers’ first-round draft pick, lost another fumble and was benched.
“I feel good”, he said.
Denver took a 7-0 lead by ripping through the Chargers defense easily on its first possession.
“I was just trying to get it out in front of Gates, and maybe he gets there and maybe it’s nobody”, Rivers said.
Usually you’ll see at least one, if not multiple linemen get after a defender who puts an extra shot on their QB but this time around nothing like that happened. “That’s a heck of a group and we didn’t rise to the challenge”. They will be hugely disappointed to have missed out on the chance to sweep the series for the first time since 1991.
The opening drive “was our best, running and throwing”, Thomas said. “It was a bad play all the way the around”. The big thing is to start building back his arm strength. Each catch was greeted with a roar, as Broncos fans filled Qualcomm Stadium.
“We’ve gotten used to it, unfortunately, and us not winning doesn’t help”, a resigned Rivers said. Kubiak said Manning has been throwing indoors this past week, but not with much movement because of a boot he wore.
I’m sure a lot of fans bought tickets for the game today, so I am hoping for a valiant performance for them today, so they didn’t spend a bunch of dough to watch their team get embarrassed in their own stadium with a bunch of orange shirts around them heckling.
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“I was not offered a contract”, McCoy said.
