BRONCOS VS. TEXANS:
BRONCOS COMEBACK BID COMES UP SIX POINTS SHORT: Denver was able to cut a 20-point deficit to six in the final minutes, but it wasn’t enough in a 31-25 loss.
The Broncos have fallen by a final score of 31-25. Below are the blogs from tonight’s action. Stay tuned to DenverBroncos.com for complete postgame coverage.
BRONCOS ON TWITTER: Follow the action on Twitter, as well, via the Broncos’ official gameday account. @BroncosGameday will keep fans updated with live, in-game updates throughout tonight’s matchup.
NFL GAMEPASS: For international Broncos fans located outside the United States and Mexico, watch tonight’s game live and in HD with NFL GamePass.
INACTIVES: The inactive players for this afternoon’s game have been announced.
BRONCOS TV ON SITE: HOME VS. HOUSTON: Check out Broncos TV On Site: Home vs. Houston, which features Chris Hall and Gray Caldwell of DenverBroncos.com breaking down Sunday’s matchup.
NFL CELEBRATES HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH: From Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, the NFL is celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month.
PREGAME PHOTO GALLERY: Click here for photos from pregame before the Broncos take on the Texans.
ROD SMITH TO JOIN RING OF FAME SUNDAY: On Sunday, the Broncos are inducting wide receiver Rod Smith into the team’s Ring of Fame. The ceremony will take place at halftime.
BRONCOS WIN COIN TOSS: The Broncos won the coin toss and chose to receive. Click here for a list of the captains and starters.
SAFETY PUTS BRONCOS ON THE BOARD: After 57-yard punt by punter Britton Colquitt pinned the Texans deep in their own territory, defensive end Elvis Dumervil sacked Texans quarterback Matt Schaub for a safety that makes it 2-0, Broncos. Click here to view the play.
PRATER MAKES IT 5-0, TEXANS RESPOND: The Broncos took a 5-0 lead after a 46-yard drive ended with a 32-yard field goal by kicker Matt Prater, but Houston answered with a 60-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Matt Schaub to wide receiver Andre Johnson.
LONG DRIVE GIVES HOUSTON 14-5 LEAD: Houston stretched its lead to 14-5 on a 97-yard scoring march that culminated in a 3-yard touchdown completion from Texans quarterback Matt Schaub to running back Arian Foster.
TEXANS PUSH AHEAD 21-5: With a two-play, 57-yard drive that ended in a 52-yard bomb from Houston quarterback Matt Schaub to wide receiver Kevin Walter, the Texans have stretched the lead to 21-5.
BRONCOS CUT LEAD TO 21-8: The Broncos moved 75 yards in nine plays to set up a 23-yard Matt Prater field goal that made it 21-8, Texans. Denver picked up big yardage on a 30-yard completion from quarterback Peyton Manning to tight end Joel Dreessen and a 23-yarder from Manning to wide receiver Demaryius Thomas.
INJURY UPDATE: The Broncos have announed that linebacker Nate Irving will not return after sustaining a concussion on a special teams tackle. Running back Willis McGahee’s return is questionable after a rib injury.
HALF ENDS WITH WOODYARD’S PICK SETTING UP PRATER’S 53-YARDER: Thanks to an interception by linebacker Wesley Woodyard, the Broncos were able to put together a quick field goal drive highlighted by two completions from quarterback Peyton Manning to wide receiver Eric Decker. Kicker Matt Prater finished the drive by converting from 53 yards out, leaving just one second on the clock before halftime.
BRONCOS INDUCT ROD SMITH: Broncos wide receiver Rod Smith was honored at midfield during halftime, with Owner Pat Bowlen presenting Smith with a ring. Smith then thanked the fans for their support.
FIRST HALF AUDIO HIGHLIGHTS: Click here to listen to audio highlights from the first half, courtesy of AM 850 KOA.
TEXANS FIELD GOAL MAKES IT 24-11: The Texans have stretched their lead to 13 after a 39-yard drive. A pair of roughing-the-passer penalties against Denver helped Houston move into field goal range.
HOUSTON GOES UP 31-11: The Texans now lead by 20 after a five-play, 72-yard drive highlighted by a 46-yard completion from quarterback Matt Schaub to wide receiver Lestar Jean. Houston finished the drive with a 14-yard touchdown pass from Schaub to tight end Owen Daniels.
MANNING FINDS STOKLEY, MAKING IT 31-18: Capitalizing on a fumble recovery by defensive tackle Justin Bannan, the Broncos put together a 2-play, 49-yard scoring drive that culminated with quarterback Peyton Manning hooking up with Brandon Stokley for a 38-yard touchdown pass.
BRONCOS PULL WITHIN 31-25: The Broncos have made it a one-possession game. Denver moved 74 yards in 16 plays, capping the scoring march with a 6-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Peyton Manning to tight end Joel Dreessen.
Tags: Gameday Coverage, Houston Texans, Week 3
haha cat a few of us will get that one! and yes things will only get better and better and i have no problem with the growing pains considering what they will lead to eventually.
Exactly. But I’m ready to start a fight with Tebowmaniacs, BRING IT ON! I’m sticking with Peyton and what this team is going to look like at the end here. Team effort. And our pass defense was horrible today at the beginning of the game. I call that on JDR because he was putting too much pressure early. Kubiak exploited it.
The Texans are good but I don’t think their D is as great as everyone advertise them as. Those 2 big pass plays for TD’s killed us. I applaud Porter for trying to play through the pain, but he cost us on several plays. I would love for us to beat ChOakland bad bad bad next week. Like run up the score bad.
Also shot out to my fellow Louisianaian Brandon Stok. for his great play today. We also must stop the dumb penalties though Mays roughing the passer was a pure explosive football hit.
Brandon Stokley was a beast. And he will just keep getting better and better.
I don’t think the Texans D or the Falcons D played well in the fourth quarter of those games. Can’t give big plays up to Manning in the fourth quarter. I don’t care how tired you are. We can fix this. Patience patience patience!!!
And Arizona. I can’t tell you how impressed I am with Arizona. Or Minnesota. Football is just absolutely insane right now.
good point cat. also i think del rio needs to play to the secondarys strengths better. put them in a position to succeed. rahim moore is not playing well tho and while the d line is making mays look a little better, he still sucks imo and should be blowing up plays more than he doess or at least plugging lanes and covering the underneath routes better. not sure what happened to porter but he cant keep getting beat every other play, we need a punt returner, and the 3rd down defense is pretty bad as well. like the offense tho the defense is also new and will take some getting used to. i liked seeing del rio tearing into the team when they were getting tore up early in the game and then they came out playing better. bottom line is we’ll see. unfortunately theres no way to know for sure how we will do as the season goes on but i’ll say i think we will be pretty dang good by about mid season.
As far as anyone FAKE Broncos fan talking about Tebow Tebow Tebow……. They can Go Go Go cheer for the Jets! Tebow is just like any other player that has worn a Broncos uniform and went to play for another team….. Thank you for your services but you’re not a current member and I don’t care what you did.
Damn Brandon Lloyd gets on my nerves!!
eric decker needs to quit overthinking the game. once this all falls in place for him i think he will excel. he just looks like he is making it harder than it is and its leading to bone headed plays. and mello whats up man?i gotta say i disagree with ya, the texans d is really good imo. i could be wrong tho. great point on the td’s tho. they killed us.
Our secondary sucked in the first quarter. Porter hurt his knee and should’ve stayed out. Chris Harris played like a BEAST though so glad we have him. Racism Moore is a huge weak link and they have to stop having Leohnard return punts. Why can’t Bolden do both?
Brandon Lloyd gets on my nerves and the replacement refs suck.
RaHIM seriously, I hate my iPad sometimes. I a, not calling Rahim an racist, I don’t know what happened there.
well i’m out but it was great to chat with you again cat! mello good to hear from you too, again i hope i can get on regularly before the end of the season but i’ll be seeing yall soon as i can! later!
Eric Decker is definitely over thinking the game and I think DT is the closest to being in sync with Manning like Tamme and Stokely.
ya cat racism moore is having a tough go of things!!!!!
Night, LBF!! Glad I was around when you were! Go Broncos. And if we’re gonna lose, at least we lost pretty!!!
hahahaha cracking me up cat! needed the laugh i’ll see ya later!!!!
Love ya man, hope to see you around more too. I’m gonna go to bed as well. Sorry I went off on Tebow, I love Tebow, but if he had been our QB in that game… I don’t even want to know what the score would’ve been. Maybe like the Husker game yesterday? Shudder 73-3
I predicted a Broncos win on score contest but i thought this would be a game we could loose. This Houston team is probably the best all around team right now. They are healthy with great players and coaches.
That said, we still are yet to put together a full game on both sides of the ball. The coaching has to get better sooner than later. I was coming out of my seat when we were down on the five and tried to run the ball in twice when we needed every second on the clock. That time lost on the clock was terrible coaching. I can’t say that the game was lost on these decisions because we need to find a way to play with a lead instead of coming from behind. We need to find a way to win division games and AFC games right now and hopefully start gelling as a team by the playoffs.
PLAYOFFS, PLAYOFFS…..how about we win next week!!!
lbf… what’s up my dude. I respect your opinion and I’m not discounting them. I just feel like we made them look a little better than they are with all our mistakes. They have a great scheme and the right players for that scheme. I feel if we met them in the playoffs, Manning would exploit their secondary which I feel is their weak link.
Take care lbf!!
cat…… Lloyd acts like he’s been making big plays his whole career. Always worked my nerves even when he was a Broncos.
It seemed that the Texans controlled both lines-of-scrimmage for the first 3 quarters … Manning wasn’t getting ANY time, and the Texan’s running game was awesome, with lots of room to run, and Schaub had ages to pass, and our DBs weren’t up to the task … then, we seemed to come back to earth, and both offense and defense seemed to get a second wind … if Thomas had gotten both feet down for that TD, we would have had more time at the end … I’ll tell you this – Houston was very happy to end up with a win … you really have to admire the Broncos last week and this week … maybe they don’t have good game plans going in … and in that 3rd quarter, I was BEGGING us not to run on first down, and then we’d get stuffed … but I have a lot of hope … I couldn’t imagine the Chargers only getting 3 points against ANYBODY … and the Chiefs were SO lucky – New Orleans got HOSED on several replay calls … but – it is what it is … I’m glad the Raiders won today – I’d not like them to come in here 0-3 … the Steelers couldn’t get near the QB today – that’s why the Raiders won … we HAVE to do that … we didn’t do a great job of that today … but that first play safety was a thing of beauty … right now it’s tough being a Bronco fan – but I, like lots of you here – have great faith … I thought Manning couldn’t POSSIBLY throw long over the middle, and then he hit #14 and #88 in stride, and now I think opposing defenses will have to be a little more honest … but he did hit a lot of the Texan’s DBs right in the numbers … our receivers or Manning’s fault??? … ah, well – there’s always next week … but I’ve been amazed the last two weeks that, at the end of the game, are we really only down 6??? …
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Goodell always says that he does everything for best interest of the game. Well if thats true then he better get the regular refs. back, or maybe its time to get a new commissioner. Watching the first 3 games has been hell. They let the obvious penalties go then call stupid penalties. Goodell needs to get his head out & do whats best for the game & the fans.
To little to late again! 60 mins. broncos not 15 mins. Need to play a whole game not just one quarter of a game. Manning is human not a super power, he needs help that the offensive line is not giving him. Also on defense I think its time to replace Porter but I know it won’t happen because of Fox. Not a big fan of Fox.