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Denver and Chicago combined for zero first-half points, marking just the eighth time in team history that has occurred. The Broncos improved to 6-2 all-time in games tied 0-0 at halftime.
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For the third straight week, Matt Prater has ended the game with a field goal to deliver a Broncos victory on the final play. Prater beat San Diego with a 37-yard kick in overtime in Week 12, Minnesota with a 23-yarder as time expired in the fourth quarter in Week 13 and Chicago with a 51-yard field goal in overtime. With his kick on Sunday, he helped Denver set a franchise record with its third overtime victory of the season. He has four game-winning kicks on the season, which is tied for second most for a single season.
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The Broncos extended their win streak to six games with Sunday’s 13-10 overtime victory over the Bears. With the win, Denver became one of just three teams in NFL history to win at least six consecutive games after starting a season 2-5 or worse.
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Linebacker Von Miller tied the Broncos rookie sack record with his 11.5th sack of the season on Sunday. His 11.5 sacks in his first 12 career games rank third in league history behind Leslie O’Neal (S.D., 1986 – 12.5) and a player who watched Miller collect his 11.5th sack on Sunday – Bears defensive lineman Julius Peppers, who had 12 sacks with Carolina in 2002.
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The Broncos extended their multi-sack streak to 12 games, finishing with four quarterback takedowns as a team (Williams – 2; Miller, Dumervil – 1). The 12 consecutive games with multiple sacks is the longest active streak in the NFL.
-Stuart Zaas
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First! ‘Sorry…couldn’t resist. Please don’t yell at me. lol
Here I go again. I was just thinking, how many of our receivers will be free agents next year? How many will asked to be traded or released? How many are pretending to be unselfish because they are winning? How many team players will turn on Tebow if they start losing? Just thinking out loud.
Also, wondering how Orton and Lloyd are feeling about leaving a WINNING TEAM bound for the playoffs for a LOSING TEAM with no chance for the playoffs.
@ mainbroncos – first by a long ways. . . .
Next game I won’t be fooled, I am headed to the store right now to buy a gallon of Alka-Seltzer Plus. Man what a game and I am loving every second of it. GO BRONCOS
So Bay, is it getting any easier for Elway to choose? I agree with many that Tim is trying so hard to stay in the pocket and pass like they want him to. If Elway means what he says about working with Tim all offseason then I will be excited to see how much better he will get. He may surprise us all.
Lloyd is bumming. He said no regrets a few days ago, but I don`t believe him. LOL
Shaz, good day for you, you getting spoiled today? LOL
I`m so looking forward to the N.E. game.
2 head coaches fired today. WOW
I`m curious to know if Dawk, Goody, and Larson will be ready this weekend.
Both from the AFC too.
Haley is a hothead!
Strand, I have never been spoiled a day in my life
It is ok though. Did get a present from my job, they informed all of us that our bonuses will not be paid this Friday but will be paid on January 6. So a cheap x-mas this year for all. At least the Bronco’s won and I have a jersey. At least I have my priorities straight LOL.
The Pats secondary is beat up, not good for them.
Absolutely! Priorities build good Character.
So lets let the Broncos spoil us with another win this sunday. LOL
The Bronco secondary is beat up – and the Pats are a passing machine. Champ can’t do it all by himself.
Oil wells!!! Guess TT is gonna have to just light it up!!!
Lets hope the injuries aren`t too bad.
Shaz – sorry ’bout that. I am thoroughly spoiled in my old age.
Still waiting on that info – heard Dawks neck results came back neg. I have no idea what that means.
It means good, but how good. It could be a stinger or a mildly pinched nerve. He`ll play soon but hopefully this game coming up.
Goody has a concussion.
Sounded like Goody would be out for a week and Royal will be back.
Mabey the recievers have this whole he can’t pass thing in there head so they are dropping passes that should be caught. I don’t know but it is frusrating sometimes. I have noticed that trend all season, since TT has been the QB. What do you guys think.
Still concerned about McG. Looked like he was struggling the 2nd half.
I don’t know what to think about all the dropped passes, except I miss Lloyd.
If we are going to make a playoff run – I wonder if the Rams would mind if we borrowed Lloyd seeing as how he is going to be sitting at home watching the game anyway. LOL
Hopefully McGahee was more tired than he was hurting. We`ll find out soon.
We haven`t had this feeling of anticipation in awhile regarding the playoff race. The talk is fun for once. I don`t think S.D. has a chance like some are saying. There would have to be a total collapse of Denver and the raiders.
WOW! I think Prater, Bailey ,Clady,Kuper, McG,Colquitt, Miller should get the Probowl. Dawk, Walton , Beatle maybe. I am sick of all this ” if Barber….. Tebow had to drive us 40 yrds , Prater had to kick two long FG against Peppers, the D had to make plays. We played harder and won.
do not get jerseys from b2cnfljersey or nikenfljersey. it is a chinese scam
Right 66! If we go the ‘if’ route….then we can say if Deck didn’t drop four tough but good passes – if DMT doesn’t drop his 3 – if Prater doesn’t get blocked…..Then … the Broncos win easy!!!
Even though we won it was a poor game played by our WR`s, tisk tisk.
Fox just said they are going to have to play a lot better to beat the Pats, pretty much sums up the Bears game, not to take anything away from it, a non Cutler and Forte Bear team should of been much easier to defeat, just saying.
It looked like most of the dropped passes were because of bad catching technique. Most of the time the were trying to cradle the ball instead of catching it with their hands and it was bouncing off their pads. DMT had one bad drop because he had his hands turned the wrong way (according to the announcers).
Most likely he just doesn’t want to give the broncos any motivational material, but here is his take:
“They play for 60 minutes. They’ve obviously closed a lot of games and finished very well,” Brady said. “We got a huge test. We’ll all be excited, and hopefully have a good week of preparation and be ready to go on Sunday.”
Brady is accustomed to being the QB at the center of attention on a weekly basis. That certainly won’t be the case in Week 15, which suits Brady just fine.
“That’s OK. Believe me, there’s great reason,” he said. “They’re winning a ton of games, and (Tebow is) playing very well.
“Everyone says he struggles throwing the ball. What I saw last night, he had no problems throwing the ball. He threw the ball extremely well when I was watching.”
Now Elway is saying Tebow has transformative power on the will of teammates. Has he ever seen a player like his QB?
“No, not to this point,” Elway said. “If you look at where we’ve been just this season and look at the impact that he has had this season, not only athletically with him running around and throwing the football, but I think that his presence has been just huge and his confidence and his competitiveness that he has, especially if you look about when we’re coming off 4-12 last year.”
I am so happy for Champ. He looks like he is having the time of his life. I want a SB win for him and Dawk more than I want one as a fan.
And Brady ought to know – good post!
We need our blog site to be rebuild with a ‘like’ button capability. I ‘like’ your Champ post as well. He was so fired up yesterday I got a rush outta just watching him.
Happy Birthday Shaz!
I think our receivers finally step up against the Patriots. We have to be able to control the clock, McGahee was not 100% and needs all the rest he can get this week. You could see that the season is beginning to wear on him. I really think that the coaches will use Tebow to help relieve McGahee with a lot more run options.
-Royalty
I’m out – meeting time.
I agree daddybronc, a “like” button or a “recommend” button would be awesome. That way we can appreciate all the posts we like without having to make a new post to personally address people. Cause usually by the time you get your post typed, the post you are referring to is on the previous page haha =P
At this point I think a lot of people were right when they say Elway and Co. expected Tebow to fail, and were just getting it out of the way.
But at this point, Fox is probably considering getting Tebow tattooed somewhere on his body for helping to make his job so much more secure, and even Elway is probably starting to get a little excited about having this guy on his team.
I agree 100% alex I really hope that Champ can get a ring for all he’s done for our franchise.
LOL@Alex Fox getting a TT tat haha!
Like happy faces, or sad faces, or faces that wink at you, now you want I like, I agree, I disagree, I recommend buttons, to each his own but I still like wording my own thoughts, all that stuff is well beyond me and seems utterly silly, just me though, to each his own.
But I think someone mixed a chill pill in with my koolaid recently, because all of a sudden I feel extremely nervous about the rest of this season.
The good news is we already have a win in december, and over the last 5 years we have been historically bad in Dec.
From the beginning of the year I have been saying this patriots game looks like a game we should win. Our pass rush and run game are what I expected it to be, and the pats defense is worse than I thought it would be. I say we get enough pressure on Brady to make him have a bad day, and we are effective enough on offense to control the clock and keep our D fresh.
Here comes another nail biter.
official prediction: 20-24 broncos.
er, we have two wins in Dec. Even better haha