The Broncos came back from a 20-point first half deficit to cut Atlanta’s lead to 27-21 with 3:25 remaining. But the Falcons were able to run out the clock and prevent Denver from completing the comeback.
Running back Willis McGahee led the way for the Broncos with 113 yards rushing and two second half touchdowns on 22 carries.
Denver fell behind 10-0 early in the first quarter and was unable to erase a 20-0 first half deficit in a 27-14 loss to the Atlanta Falcons on Monday Night Football.
Denver found itself in a 10-0 hole after committing four first quarter turnovers — three interceptions and one fumble. Atlanta’s first touchdown drive of the game covered just one yard after Falcons safety William Moore returned his interception to the Broncos 1-yard line. Atlanta running back Michael Turner plunged in from a yard out to make it 7-0 Falcons.
Atlanta led 20-0 before Broncos QB Peyton Manning led a 13-play, 80-yard drive with time winding down in the second quarter. Manning capped the drive with a 17-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Demaryius Thomas, who made the leaping reception despite tight coverage in the corner of the end zone.
The Broncos outscored the Falcons 14-7 in the second half thanks to solid defense and two rushing touchdowns from McGahee, but Atlanta picked up multiple first downs to seal the deal after Denver had cut it to 27-21 in the closing minutes.
Tags: Atlanta Falcons, Gameday Coverage, Week 2
we need safeties. ours are terrible esp. moore
It was 27-21 not 27-14
Moore is always late on every play and makes stupid penalties
I don’t think any one could have predicted the first half. Bad ref calls, turn overs, and no pressure on matt. We will survive.
At least we came back & made a game of it. Too many TOs and way way too many bad calls.
No one predicted the game would go like this. Everyone expected a shoot out. Besides the first quarter was a good game.
Strand lol early you said its not how you start but how you finish well this game it was how we started lol
Refs were really bad that game.
way to state the obvious ab !!!!!
ahhh this lose hurts…but i love the fact that this team has heart and never gives up
No show should never carry the ball.
Steve Young says the NFL doesn’t care, if they did they would settle the ref strike. They want to break the union.
Lol banned….
Nalen I agree he shouldnt run but he did have a nice catch.
cant have 3 interceptions in the first quarter. and how come we couldnt beat manning when we had nolan. lol.
Nolen brought his A game. I miss him as a DC
Yes No show is a very good 3rd down back catching out of the back field
I think we were out-coached.
We were outplayed, no pressure on Ryan and no turnovers.
Nolen vs McCoy yes.
if offense gets it going from the beggining we have a good chance but falcons played a good game. too bad they choke in the playoffs. also gonzales still hasnt won a playoff game.
Did the broncos blow another high draft pick? Where is Ronnie Hillman? Injured?
Ryan got away way too many times.
We seem to always have a bad 2nd pick
Moore and Porter both dropped possible INTS one was a pick 6.
We need a better OC not DC I think JDR is doing a good job. I mean this was only his second game. We need to work on our quick pass defense (I said this last week) and to cover our blitzes better.
Ayers, Tebow, Moore , Hillman???
I’m not so sure about JDR. I thought our defense played poorly.
also other teams our going to look at what the falcons did to manning. we need to protect him better. and build momentum before manning does his thing. these guys are still learning this system.
It seems like we have need a safety for years. Not since Lynch & Ferguson have we have too good safeties
Our D held them to 13 points off 4 turnovers thats not bad. Wasnt our Ds best game but we were also playing a great offensive team.
Kuper will be a huge help we he returns
Ramirez right now is the weak link on our OLine. Cant wait for Kuper to return
time to go back to work. houston will be tough. good thing we are home.
At least we have the next two games at home.
yes safety needs to be improved. moore is always so close. but close doesnt cut it. he has to make a play.
Peyton is a class act. Takes all the blame on himself. Said he put them in too big a hole and couldn’t get out.
Moore does need to make that play. He missed a int or two last week and missed a big one this week. He HAS to make those plays. Or he can be shown the bench or door.
Wolfedom thats good to hear he did that. His three INTs were all bad choices by him.
Atlanta is a very good team. SF vs Atl in the NFC championship game. SF SB bound.
thats all true. no turn overs its a different game 21-14 denver. i wont count that moreno turnover becasue it was bull.
If Moore tackles Jones it would of gotten very interesting
SBBF It was. We had the recovery.
And Nalen I agree about that!!!
yes ,but No show did fumble it. One of a dozen bad calls against us.
Two big calls that stand out to me were one was a holding play by Atls OG on Wolfe I believe in the end zone which if called wouldve been a safety and we wouldve got the ball back. And the other was a no call for PI on a 3rd down against Atl.
Thats fumble was a bad call too but I said that as well.
i said before the game. if we win that game. i go with a frisco and Denver superbowl. thats close and i believe we make the playoffs. by december we are a scoring machine with manning.
Can we get the score fixed? It says we lost 27-14 instead of 27-21….
The pass int. calls were soooo bad. No contact and they call it on us on 3rd down, and they don’t call about 5 for us. one in the end zone and one on the deep ball to decker late in the 4th & the next play is a sack and we punt
On offense we have to remember they are still getting used to Mannings calls and all that and Georgiadome is a very very loud place
Nalen I agree. those two were bad onces as well. The one in the end zone was it when the defender had his hand grabbing the neck hole of Deckers jersey?
the refs were terrible. i hope this game is enough to make the nfl get with the program and bring the original refs back. like my boy ed hochuli. lol.
i do think it is rediculous that the refs our asking for a pension plan for the few days a year they work.
yes that was one of them. even gruden was on our side on the pass int calls
Yea he was. So many calls he was questioning saying he had no idea what they were calling.
If JDR leaves or get fired after this year can we go get Gruden for our DC? Lol I love Gruden and think he is a excellent defensive minded coach. But only if that happens to JDR