Denver Broncos 19 - San Diego Chargers 14
Another close low-scoring game for this new rivalry, as the Broncos manage to come away with a sweep of the season series, but only by a combined 11 points. It was all Broncos early, but their defense fell asleep to end the first half and allowed Ryan Mathews to rip off an 73-yard run as time expired. Just inexcusible on that one. The Chargers made it a game after that, and were even able to take the lead at one point, but the Broncos made a few more plays and their defense held firm on the Charger's final drive to seal the win.
Osweiler had a terrible game in this one, going 4 of 13 for 84 yards, 1 TD and 2 INTs. Both picks were of the "heave it deep on 3rd down, basically a punt" variety, but that didn't much excuse his poor play.
Travis Hurns was pulled early in favor of Tajh Gray, who went 10 of 22 for 110 yards, 1 TD and 2 INTs.
McFadden carried 17 times for 129 yards and a TD, while McGahee continued to contribute basically nothing.
Mathews carried 11 times for 83 yards, though 73 of those came on his one TD run. He was pretty well bottled up otherwise.
VJax took his one catch 61 yards for the go-ahead TD late, no other Broncos receiver did much in this one.
Gates lead the Chargers with 3 catches for 47 yards, while Dozier had the TD.
Huge game from Von Miller, who had a sack, forced 2 fumbles (one of which he recovered himself) and he also stuffed Mathews for a loss on 4th-and-2 to end the Chargers' comeback win. Elvis Dumervil also had a sack, while Haden and Rahim Moore had the picks. Their DBs did have a bit of a case of dropsies in this one, as they had 6 or 7 picks go right off their hands.
The Chargers got sacks from Liuget and Martin and two picks from Kenny Phillips, though they lost him to injury late.
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gg njrockpd! A couple of close ones for us so far, glad I could come away with the win both times.
Broncos move to 6-1, as well as 4-0 in the division. Next week's game against KC heading into the bye is a huge one, since they're looking at the chance of running away with the division.