On Tuesday the NFL informed the Broncos that Brandon Marshall will be named the AFC Offensive Player of the Week, two days after he played an integral role in the Broncos’ 39-38 victory over the Chargers.
It’s the first time he’s received the award in his three-year career.
In his first game back from a one-game suspension, Marshall caught 18 passes — a new Broncos single-game franchise record — for 166 yards and a touchdown.
The 18 catches were double the amount of any other receiver in Week 2, and also tied for second-most in NFL history behind only Terrell Owens, who had 20 catches in a game in 2000.
In his last five games dating back to 2007, Marshall has posted the most catches in NFL history for any five-game period with 55 receptions for 577 yards and four touchdowns.
Several Broncos have been honored in the past two weeks — Head Coach Mike Shanahan is also nominated for the Motorola NFL Coach of the Week award for Week 2, and Jay Cutler has been nominated for the FedEx Air NFL Player of the Week in both weeks of the season thus far. Eddie Royal was voted the Diet Pepsi NFL Rookie of the Week for Week 1, as well.
With the impressive way the Broncos have gotten to 2-0, it’s no coincidence the awards seem to be a recurring theme.
Check out highlights from Marshall’s record day on Broncos TV.
-Gray Caldwell, DenverBroncos.com
Tags: AFC Awards, Brandon Marshall, Gray Caldwell, Week 2
Is B Marsh is going to look pretty scoring touchdowns in his orange jersey on Sunday, or what?!
Bring out the orange jerseys!
This is awesome, and just so everyone knows, I was at the game sunday and practically lost my voice. But when I finished buying stuff after the game, I walked outside and heard marshall being chanted, so i ran over only to find him signing autographs. Him and Sheffler were the only two guys i saw signing stuff, and I was lucky enough to get Marshalls autograph on the day he showed the league who the best receiver in the NFL is. What a Beast!!!
That’s so cool they’ll be busting out the orange jerseys for Sundays game.
It’s been at least 4 yrs since they last wore them, but really it will be the first time for most of this Team!!
I agree! Come on Pat – bring out the ORANGE to celebrate!
Yeah, I’m in total agreement to the return of the orange jerseys. Maybe it will let people know that the ORANGE CRUSH is back only its back on BOTH sides of the ball!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m lovin’ that idea.
And I definitely don’t want to forget to congratulate B. Marsh on this awesome award. Keep it comin’ #15 – break TO’s record of 20 catches in a single game – that would be awesome!!!!!!!!
Let’s go take over the Saints on Sunday and get another EXCITING win!!! WAHOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
GO BRONCOS!!!!!!11
Orange jerseys will never be worn again as far as I know. Don’t you guys remember the infamous game in the snow vs the Raiders in 2004 or 2005? Broncos have lost EVERY time they wear the orange alternates. 0-4 I think. Pretty sure Shanny or Bowlen said they won’t wear them again due to “bad mojo”………
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They announced before the season the the Broncos would be wearing the orange jersey’s in a couple of games this year.
F the orange jerseys dont jinx us already this is a big game against a good team. break out hte orange when we play the cheifs or some team like that
im watching the replay on nfl network right now. and not only did paymah get his a_ _ handed to him on defense all game long but he is the one that got burnt on the kick return for a td. i cant beleive it this guy is horrible
Paymah played great the first half then our entire defense got there a_ _ handed to them. Also, I cant believe all the hype about the fumble. That happens in football all the time yet this ONE cost the CHARGERS the game so suddenly the world goes crazy. Tony Dungy didnt scream and mope and b_ _ _h all week long when an inadvertant whistle cost the Colts a touchdown which ultimately would have given the Colts enough points to beat the Chargers last year.
Remember, we won the Superbowl in the NEW jerseys. So, I say no way to bringing back the old, yet classically beautiful, orange jerseys. A couple other thoughts:
Paymah needs to find somewhere else to play. He is the biggest liability on our defense (in the passing game at least). He is an ok cover guy, but he has horrible ball skills, never turns to see the ball, etc. When he is on the field the ball is coming his way.
Chargers! Sheesh! What I can’t figure out is why they act like we were given a touchdown? The call was muffed but it only gave us another CHANCE, it didnt put 8 points on the board. All they had to do is stop us on 1 out of the 4 final plays. And what about the other 31 pts – did the ref give us those too? The real problem? The Chargers started to believe their own hype as the darlings of the AFC and forgot they had to go out there and win games.
Where is our Defense and Special Teams? They really sucked out there and unless we plan on outscoring everyone we are going to have problems later in the season. What’s the fix?
Congrats Marshall on the award!
Just a bit of an update…. I do believe it sounds like people are interpreting the orange jerseys which are being spoken of as the old logo, orange crush jesrey’s. As mentioned above, it was announced that we would where the alternate orange jerseys, with the blue side stripe, against the saints and chiefs (at home). So I say bring it on, and screw superstition. Screw past records, if we are gonna win or lose, it will have jack squat to do with the color on our jersey’s. We will prevail!
We can win with orange too!
Bring back the orange jerseys
When we traded Colbert to the Seahawks, we should have given them Paymah for free. I like the orange jerseys and hopefully, we win big against the Saints when we wear them. This will be an exciting game but we can beat New Orleans by following the same tenants we did in the first two games. Never quit, Broncos and we’ll be 3-0!
I think it was great when I heard Colbert was traded he just took up a roster spot didnt see to much use with him. I really dont understand why we have Paymah in their trying to save us because he got burt almost as bad a D. Hall did by Royal. Wheres that saftey that retured the int for a touchdown against the cards. Thats who needs to be in their. Bly and Bailey cant do it all. I know 19% of the world is coverd by water and 81% of the world is coverd by bailey. lol Lets do denver 17-0 this season.
jazzyfrizzle is right! Anyone whose youth was spent in Denver, remorses the loss of primarily orange jerseys (I don’t care if they’re the new “style” or not–they still look awsome). When we went to blue–that was the trend–everyone in the league was going with darker jerseys. They blue jerseys had nothing to do with the Super Bowl wins. FORGET about jinxes– that was all Elway, TD, Smith, Big Mac and Atwater.
But I tell you what, bright is back! Bright is beautiful! and Orange just feels right in Denver.
Orange feels fast. It’s time to see the next generation–Cutler, Marshall, Royal, The Master Cheff (Sheffler) and Bailey in our true home color.
Thank you Shanny, for giving this one more go. This time, make it stick.
Bring back the orange jerseys!
orange jerseys are gonna be siiick!!!…would be even better if they went full blown throwback…blue helmets…SEND THOSE SAINTS MARCHING ALL THE WAY BACK TO N.O!!!
ORANGE JERSEYS ARE GONNA BE SWEET…BUT THEY SHOULD DEF ROCK EM WITH THE THROWBACK HELMETS TOO…GO BRONCOS…SEND THEM SAINTS MARCHING ALL THE WAY BACK TO N.O.!!!
CONGRATULATIONS to Brandon! You are definately the “FREAK” doing the STREAK for SIX!
To all you ORANGE haters and jinx lovers. Jinxes only work when you give them energy. Let it go and take a nother look at the OFFICAL colors of our team. They are ORANGE and blue. Not blue and orange. Definatly need to see more ORANGE…
Congrats Marshall, keep it classy and keep helping us win ball games.
Orange Crush, not so fast. When we had the orange crush we had some high caliber defense, and I know nobody thinks we have that with how we got torched on sunday without a healthy Gates, Tomlinson. I love the ORANGE and blue but that really scares the he** out of me. And anyone dumping on Karl Paymah is absolutely right, the Charger wideouts have been the most underachieving not to mention garbage receivers in the league and Paymah made them look like Pro-Bowlers. He got Mossed by Chambers, beat ridiculously by Vincent Jackson. When we were up 31-17, Paymah got beat so bad that it sparked San Diego into believing they could win. And like someone said earlier “Any time he’s on the field, the ball’s going to him.” Which is really true.
It’s time’s like these where I need to know if any of you know, why did we trade Dominique Foxworth, who had enormous upside, was young, and could stick people in one on one.
If Brandon Marshall keeps himself out of trouble he will defintely be a pro bowler.
Our offense is crushing but the defense is where the big question is if we dont figure out a way to stop the long ball its gonna come back and bite us at some point!! As for the orange jerseys im with the guy who said we should wait till we play the chiefs to bust them out dont take no chance with the jinx. And B Marsh is the best reciever in the game keep feedin this guy and we’ll win games we shouldn’t!
FOXY SUCKS…they are both young with upside…FOXY got burnt all the time last year…whoever isn’t Bailey or Bly is going to get thrown on….Chambers beat Champ too if ou recall….He was the BEST player the Dolphins had and they “fire-saled” him to the Chargers. Paymah does hav to play better I agree, but Foxworth was not the answer AND he was in the last year of his contract and wanted to be a starter (which he is not in Atlanta). I thin kif we are going to have a guy get beat in coveraage at least let the rookie Williams get his lumps in. But as a guy who watched ALL 16 BRONCO GAMES last year. watched not listened to or read about, FOXY was garbage. And again I will say that his good work inthe community meant nothing on the field. Outside of that, I say wear the orange, beat the Saints and then go to Arrowhead an dbeat the Chiefs and let’s see what the pundits say when we are sitting at 4-0
Play it safe?! What kind of a Dan Reeves attitude is that?!
Break out the Orange jerseys and start a new chapter!
Denver’s got the attitude to go balistic on the whole league right now.
Our orange will strike fear in their hearts.
We’ve already got the best Offense in the league.
Our defense is young and still getting used to each other–still gelling–but improving by the day.
Don’t panic people. This year it’s for real. I can feel it. Can’t you feel it?
Sure, we lucked a little at the end of San Diego game, but by the end of the season, mark my words, it is going to be a different story.
The Broncos are only just getting warmed up.
Break out the orange jerseys! Yea baby. Hold on, because here we go!
Foxy/Paymah?
Not to start this debate again, but Foxy didnt get beat as often because he was always giving receivers a 10-15 yard cushion. So instead of geating beat deep, he got victimized on 10 and 15 yard under routes, time and again. I will give him credit for one thing though, he was a very good tackler.
One thing that I notice is that the Broncos keep stashing late round picks. I hope Shanahan is stocking up so that we can trade up come draft day and pick up a phenomenal safety, linebacker or DB. I think our defense is just missing one more key playmaker (pass rusher, run stopper, hard hitting linebacker, etc). Then it wouldnt be so easy to avoid our best playmaker on defense. Heck, Champ already covers half of the field, he shouldn’t have to cover the rest too.
And Culterizer – I can feel it too. I know that we started 2-0 last season as well, but we barely hung in there on both those games, and we got dominated all last season by the Chargers. Last year, not even a blown call would have helped us. So, things are looking up and at least its gonna be entertaining!
Pratama great point…10-15 over and over is waaay worse than two bad plays deep I guess. Both of them played equally as bad. They bot h may turn out to be great cover 2 corners, but who knows.
no affense o cutler cause i love what hes doing but what happened to our run game we need to get our run game going cause if we can get that to where it used to be that would open up play action and it would also make deffenses bring another deffender in the box which would open up even more passing holes for cutler
no affense to cutler cause i love what hes doing but what happened to our run game we need to get our run game going cause if we can get that to where it used to be that would open up play action and it would also make deffenses bring another deffender in the box which would open up even more passing holes for cutler
FIrst off,
A full-on congratulations to B-Marsh our Beast…with a standinovation..
pretty soon we’ll see his name on the single game receptions record..
i wont be surprised if he puts up the same numbers against the CHiefs in week 4…..
secondly,
I’m sooo with Dr.Doom on the blown call….yes as I recalled, the Colts (Dungy) didnt cry/complain to the press all week about the blown call that might’ve led to their loss in the playoffs….the Broncos earned those last 8 points and all 39 of them….Chargers defense didnt stick up to their “so-called” rep as the defensive power house in the AFC west, EVEN without Merriman..not even..they flatt out sucked last Sunday…..they should jst face it, they got too hyped over how the media and sports analysts and critics portrayed them….i wonder it it was Colts or Steelers or Patriots that was in the same situation againts the Chargers, would they still get the same amount of media attention..but no,,its the “underrated Broncos”
Ok,,,I say “ta hell with all these superstitions”….put on the orange jerseys and lets have fun….those loses in the orange jerseys were jst because of poor plays by us and better playing by them…
Let Jack Williams play…
oh! i think Pratama is dead-on..i hope Shannahan is overstocking late picks to trade up and get elite Defenders nxt years draft.
The new Orange Jersey isn’t on the new madden. WTF???