An awesome, overtime thriller of a playoff game. The defense finally mastering the art of the takeaway just when it mattered the most. The offense coming up big in big situations. The special teams being a plus and not a minus.
Then… the devastating gut-punch coming out about 45 minutes after the game winning field goal: Your starting quarterback, who had taken every single snap all season, was injured, and is out of the AFC Championship game.
It was a lot.
But there’s still a lot ahead. It’s not over. It’s on to Plan B. Or “Plan S” for Stidham, if you prefer.
An old adage says it’s not what happens to you that matters, it’s how you handle it.
All Broncos Country can fairly ask of quarterback Jarrett Stidham is to be a game manager this week against his former team at Empower Field. He’s a veteran who should most certainly be able to handle that assignment. The Denver running game must be more of a factor, but most importantly, the defense – which finally found its ability to take the football away – must do it again. And again. And again.
Keep this in the back of your mind: New England turned the football over three times against Houston. It’s time for the Broncos’ defense to handle things.
The last time the Broncos won the Super Bowl, they did so on the broad shoulders of one of the best defenses in modern times. This unit isn’t quite as stout as the “No Fly Zone” was, but yards given up don’t mean squat if you can force – and make no mistake, the Denver defense forced – all five Buffalo turnovers last Saturday. They were “takeaways” in the truest sense of the word. No Bills players dropped the ball while running free. No fumbled snaps, no overthrows that hit a defensive back between the numbers. These were offensive mistakes that were the direct result of defensive hits and/or sensational ball-hawking.
For whatever reason, that hasn’t been the case all season. The Broncos – who only turned the football over 17 times in 17 games – ended the regular season at -3 in turnover margin, despite leading the league in sacks and quarterback pressures, which are two things that typically lead to turnovers. Head-scratching? You bet. The top seven teams in turnover margin this season made the playoffs. Denver finished 20th.
Against Buffalo, the Broncos forced three fumbles. That’s one fewer than they forced in 17 regular season games.
The lack of turnovers forced the Broncos’ offense to put together lengthy scoring drives, something they weren’t all that great at, and something they cannot be asked to do with Stidham under center against the Patriots. If the Denver ‘D’ can force young Drake Maye into a couple interceptions and maybe grab a fumble or two, the Bo-less Broncos offense should most certainly put up enough points to vanquish their old rival – and set up a possible rematch with another old rival, Seattle, with a score to settle in Super Bowl LX.
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