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mineofilms · 9 months ago

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The Buffalo Bills for the fifth straight season end the season with a playoff loss, 27-24 in their third home playoff loss ever, and second in two years to the Kansas City Chiefs in the Divisional Round of the 2023 NFL playoffs. This is the third time in four years that the Kansas City Chiefs have eliminated the Buffalo Bills in the playoffs. This loss was not as dramatic as last year’s loss at home to the Cincinnati Bengals or that last 10-seconds in the divisional loss to Kansas City two years ago. When the Bills got on the field Sunday, January 21st, 2024 they really Billlieved they were gonna win. The media had already been talking about how this was the Buffalo Bills year they would overcome Kansas City. However, the Chiefs had other plans. It is a disappointing loss, which makes for a disappointing season. The BillsMafia balled out this year. Not just during the season, but all the lead up to the playoffs. Hordes of fans waiting in lines, in freezing cold to help shovel snow out of the stadium. The wild card game verse Pittsburgh had to be postponed for a day due to the poor weather.

This review of the 2023 Buffalo Bills season is not going to be a splatter of throwing our people under the bus. We had a hell of a lot of adversity this year from injuries, ‘again…’ Even more so than the 2022 season. Our guys battled all year, but at the end of the day we lost. We didn’t get the pants beaten off us this time. We could have won this game and most feel we should have won this game. I felt like even if we did win that we probably would not have been able to beat Baltimore due to our defense being so rough against the run and the Ravens being a run-dominant team. However, after watching the AFC Championship game, I don’t know, maybe Allen and company might have sailed right past Baltimore. This will be another honest review based on what I saw with my own eyes and over thirty years of watching, playing, understanding the game of football.

With all that out of the way. Let’s Begin…

Tough for the Buffalo Bills to die out the way we did. Josh Allen, ‘the Alien,’ showed up. Our beat up defense, not so much. Sliced apart like warm butter most of the game. I am sure there are many that are blaming the kicking. Well our kicker should be paying better attention which direction the wind is blowing in the same area you live in but I guess that is what false hope looks like in pro football.

Our Defense was shaky most of the season due to another case of the injury-bug. However, unlike last year, the Bills were able to adapt much better with Coach McDermott calling the defense this year after Leslie Frazier announced he would not be back with the team for the 2023 season. Not fired, just that he would not coach in 2023. At this point he is no longer under contract with the Buffalo Bills. So if he does decide to coach again, it won’t be with Buffalo. The Buffalo Bills for 2024 definitely got some things to fix. We were exposed on defense in crucial situations due to these injuries. A play here, a play there. With the right people on the field, those plays never happen. However, Coach McDermott always had a fix in the game this year. This year the Bills stepped up there ‘situational football’ alertness. Injuries are not an excuse. Every team goes through them. We have been weak against the run for the past three seasons, but we showed a lot more mustard this season than we did in the past, and if it wasn’t for injuries we do not give up nearly as much as we did. We made adjustments in the 2023 offseason to beef up the defensive line and we started out well enough till the injuries began to pile up.

The Buffalo Bills have some free agency challenges heading into the 2024 season. We have 19 unrestricted free agents. It will be unlikely we will resign them all. Some of these guys were key to the Bills success and have earned a chance to either play to start or go somewhere else for more money.

• WR’s Gabe Davis, Trent Sherfield. • RB’s Latavius Murray, Damien Harris. • DE’s A.J. Epenesa, Leonard Floyd, Shaq Lawson. • DT’s DaQuan Jones, Linval Joseph, Tim Settle, Poona Ford, Jordan Phillips. • LB’s Tyrel Dodson, Tyler Matakevich. • CB’s Dane Jackson, Cam Lewis. • S’s Micah Hyde, Taylor Rapp. • QB Kyle Allen. • TE Quinton Morris (restricted)

On this list I feel six guys we absolutely need to resign are Trent Sherfield, A.J. Epenesa, Leonard Floyd, Dane Jackson, Taylor Rapp, and Poona Ford. I’d like to resign Gabe Davis but with the emergence of Trent Sherfield, Khalil Shakir and Dalton Kincaid it is going to be difficult to sign Gabe Davis under the expectation of more money in a new contract. Is he worth more money? I say yes, but his performances do not really warrant that. We really needed him to step up the last two years and he really hasn’t shown us that. If he is willing to come back to Buffalo and play for less money, then sign him, absolutely. However, if he demands more than we can pay him then we have to allow him to go and test the market. He is a starter in this league and at times has shown all-pro quality play, but it has been too far and in between. Jordan Phillips and Micah Hyde have stated they may retire, but as of the writing of this blog we have not heard from them that this is what they are going to do. Just ‘likely’ that they will retire. Be nice if we could get DaQuan Jones back as well. Buffalo made strides in the offseason last year by beefing up the defensive line, only for those strides to be hindered by injuries and now free agency.

While the NFL Salary cap is increasing for teams this offseason by about $16 million, the Buffalo Bills still find themselves in a tough spot, projected to be around $45 million over the cap. Stefon Diggs is set to carry around $28 million and Von Miller’s comes in close to $24 million. When we made Ken Dorsey our offensive coordinator we immediately signed some bigger bodied WR/TEs which led me to believe we would see a more run balanced offense using our same offensive package of three, four and five wide receivers, but now with two or three tight ends on the field at all times. Much like how our offensive game plan was for the divisional playoff loss to Kansas City two years ago. Run out of these bigger more spread out packages and push the ball down the field with deep throws and crossing patterns. We didn’t do that and the woes with Ken Dorsey as a play caller came to a halt after the week 10 home loss to the Denver Broncos. With the official signing of Joe Brady as the team’s offensive coordinator I would think Buffalo will return to this style of play or closer to the style of play Brady was calling with Joe Burrow at quarterback when LSU won the National Championship in the 2020 College Football Season. We only saw glimpses of what the offense could be during the final stretch of the regular season. Granted, this offense had problems hooking up with Diggs for nearly two thirds of the season, but I would think the Bills will see this on film and make adjustments going into 2024. Diggs is virtually open on every play but defenses did a better job of taking him out the game plan. Buffalo did adapt to this and spread the ball around, but you cannot just not throw to Diggs. We saw earlier in the year that man is so hard to get a solid hit on that he winds up breaking tackles for more yards. The man can still ball out…

The Bills sign longtime assistant coach Bobby Babich as their new Defensive Coordinator. Babich has been with the Bills and Coach McDermott since 2017 and even before that with McDermott when he was in Carolina. He started as the secondary coach, excelled there and moved up to linebacker coach where the line backing core were standouts and has now been officially hired as the Bills defensive coordinator. It is too early to tell whether he will be the play caller on defense as of yet, but even if he is or isn’t he will be working with Coach McDermott on the defense as a whole. This will take pressure off Coach McDermott, which at times during the season we needed someone to help in a more official capacity on defensive adjustments in game and even call plays when Coach McDermott needs to have attention in other areas during the game. One of the main points here is that this is an extension to what the Bills have already been doing. This just makes it official. Coordinators work directly with the head coach, but it always felt the Coach MeDermott would say something and the coordinators would say something else. With Dorsey and before that, Frazier on defense, were not seeing eye-to-eye with Coach McDermott. I always felt Coach McDermott would say something in a press conference and it would just go over both those guy’s heads. I felt like Frazier should have been fired after the 10-second meltdown in Kansas City, but it took another year for him to leave the Bills. Coach McDermott likes to promote from within. The team spends just as much time, energy on their coaching staff as they do their young players, building them up and making them work for us.

Babich was getting interviewed for defensive coordinator positions from the Green Bay Packers, the New York Giants and the Miami Dolphins. We sure as hell were not going to let him go to Miami, where we play the Dolphins twice a year and this year playing them in week 18 for the divisional title. On paper this is more of a big deal than it is on the field as Babich is already a huge part of our defense and now he has the title to go with it. The one thing that we can build on is depth. That when we are at full strength we know our backup guys can do the job and they can. Sure there are/were holes, but we did a great job of hiding those holes most of the time. Granted, not all of the time, which is why we are not playing the 49ers in the Super Bowl and the Chiefs are. At full strength we will now have a better understanding of depth at those positions, but we did not adjust well to these injuries. Instead of doubling down with our strategy we needed to make better adjustments with matchups on the field, on both sides of the ball. You do not run nickel/dime/zone packages and never blitz when your defense is that beat up, both on the line and secondary. Once you lose the threat of a pass rush from the front four; running a zone will kill your defense. I have seen it time and time again. Zone can work, but your front four has to get pressure on the quarterback or they will find holes in the zone and just dink and dunk you to death. The defense cannot recover fast enough under that sort of pressure and they didn’t. We just kept doing it over and over again. When Coach McDermott mentions making adjustments this is what I feel he means. Not just on the defensive side of the ball, but the offensive as well. Coach mentioned making adjustments as a priority in the press conference after last year’s loss to the Bengals and I billlieve that is what we did much better at this year. Our offensive coaching needs to fully understanding the weapons we have on a given situation with the players we have on the field. We saw this in the Kansas City game with plays specifically for Shakir. I think we will see more of this in 2024. At least, I really hope we do anyway.

Coach McDermott was far less patient and lenient this season with defending his coaches as we parted ways with Frazier, thank the football Gods for that one, and the firing of Ken Dorsey two thirds into the season. The writing was on the wall, but coach is super loyal to his people. However, this year the leash was far tighter. I do not billieve that will be a problem in 2024. The coaching staff is set, mostly all guys promoted from within. We cannot be too cute anymore. It is time on third and three to run the ball with efficient play calls that favor us and do not rely on some scatter-garbage-junk-play that picks up the first down. We should get the first down not because we are bigger and can push the defense back, but more based on the strategy. However, our offensive line this year did push around a lot of good quality defensive lines. We did struggle here/there against really good defenses like Kansas City. I think next year we will have that in mind more and we will see some stuff that makes more sense. Almost like basketball where you have isolation plays. We still have match up nightmares when defenses try to play us. Sure, they were able to slowdown Diggs this year, but other guys stepped up and showed they can also make big plays. I am not saying its ok to not target Diggs. He is still the best player on the field catching/running with the football, but if you double him you still got to deal with Cook, Shakir, Kincaid, Knox, Sherfield. These guys made plays this year that Diggs would usually make. However, I see the Allen/Diggs show making a big comeback in stats in 2024.

The Situational football got better after the Philadelphia loss. I feel like Buffalo really got a better clamp on this, understanding how to play in the fourth quarter. We started winning matchups and games at the end of the year where I thought we were going to lose after what had happened so often in the past with us. We hadn’t played what I thought was great football since the first Miami game and we still almost pushed through all this. I do not billieve any sort of different game plan would have changed things against the Chiefs. We were just too beat up on defense to outright stop Kansas City, but I feel like we are right there. We are literally plays away from going to the show. If one only passively watched Buffalo Bills football this year this may come as a shock. Things were unraveling and Coach McDermott was able to right the ship, make a pretty good run with limited resources. Are we disappointed? Sure, of course we are, but I feel a whole lot better going into the 2024 season than I did the 2023 season. 2022 should have been our year and it wasn’t. We ran into troubles again, but this time I feel like we learned. Coach McDermott and General Manager Brandon Bean have their work cut out for them, but I think the team is moving forward in a really nice direction. We have amazing talent at every position, but we have to stay healthy, which has been the biggest challenge the past two seasons.

Down the stretch between injuries and all the other adversity surrounding this team this year we did play better complimentary football and it showed. Still got to give this team credit. If Jim Kelly, Thruman Thomas, Andre Reed, Bruce Smith and Steve Tasker know anything about adversity in the game of football it is these men. They know… This team also has its own unique taste to add to the adversity this franchise has faced. All too well and it tastes like Bantha Poohdo… We still have gap problems down the board due to injuries, an undersized line backing core, and not being able to get a steady pass rush. It just exposes our zone too much. We must get better at third and longs. This killed us this year. At the beginning of the year we made tackles behind the line of scrimmage. The last ten weeks or so I saw guys straight-up miss because they got their head down or take bad angles and it’s the same guys over and over. One cannot tackle what they cannot see. I see us making more changes on Defense. I think we really need to add something at the linebacker positon. The depth just isn’t there yet, but the young guys did step up, and the unit as a whole looks promising.

We need to take a step back with our offense and look how we ran the ball in those last six games of the 2022 and the 2023 season. As stated above, we bulked up at the skill position and we should go back to that. We can run the spread with four and five wide outs, who says that must be wide receivers? Put two tight ends there instead and run out of it. Run quick hitters out of that. We can still run our pass attack in this formation and it will make defenses go mad trying to get the right matchups to stop it. Plus, you have more blocking for the Alien runs. I don’t know what we are going to do at running back to back up Cook, but we need a bruiser. Perhaps resign Harris or if Hines is coming back, implement more of him in the game plan. Cook is great but it would be great to have a solid second runner in there that can drop a shoulder and get three yards.

Josh Allen is a goddamn Alien, but he cannot do it all by himself, all of the time. He is over 90% of our total offense. We need to take some pressure off this guy with a running game. He will still get his 300 yards and multiple touchdowns, but we have to use him smarter. This will be year seven and we cannot have our #1 guy taking all those bumps all of the time. We cannot have Allen running around the field and play backyard hero-ball all of the time with the expectation that is how we have to play to win. Maybe year one, two and three, but now in year seven? I felt like we relied too much on junk plays this year, again, to sustain our offensive output.

Next Season we play another first place schedule, the NFC West, plus the Detroit Lions, likely to be another Thanksgiving game, I am guessing. It’s a decent schedule and someone has to go backward. I do not think it will be us. We have been in the mix five years in a row now. I think we have learned a thing or two, or five. We have grown up a lot from these past seasons. I am predicting Josh, ‘the Alien,’ Allen is going to be the NFL MVP next year. I am going to put a few dollars on that once I find a good bet. I think the Bills lose maybe three or four games and the road to the Super Bowl will go through Buffalo. Our road schedule could be a tough one in 2024 going by just what I see on the surface. Some teams will improve while others are in full rebuild, so we will have to see how the offseason plays out and the draft. The draft now is more important than it has ever been. Young guys are coming into the league and making more an impact than they have ever before. The Bills have the 28th overall pick in the first round, and nine total draft picks. We have no third round pick but have two fifth rounders and three sixth round draft picks. At a glance we need wide receivers, defensive linemen and help at the secondary positions. We play a lot of our tougher opponents at home, including the 49ers. Home field advantage is a real thing, but we were so flat in the divisional game it didn’t matter. If we do learn, grow, get healthy, adjust, and ad to what we already have then we’ll be back playing meaningful games in mid to late January again. Our defense has been and still is a bend but don’t break defense and they played like it most of this year except for this last game and a handful of others. The Buffalo Bills lost six games in the regular season this year. Josh Allen left the field leading or tied in four of them. Now you can say our whole team, surrounding area, people, and culture is bend but don’t break and this will not break us.

We Will Rebuild…

Till next year. I am proud of the team. Time to work on me and leave all this behind till late summer 2024... I'd love to see someone shut Mahomes up... Please...

One Team, One City, One Love, OneBuffalo…

"In the realm of righteousness, we sculpt our own justice, forging a path where vengeance prevails and the defending champs yield to our strength of our collective resolve. Go BILLS..." ~Insane AI

The 2023-2024 Buffalo Bills by David-Angelo Mineo 2/10/2024 3,643 Words

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insidethestardc · 11 months ago

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anthonybialy · 1 year ago

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That’s Better As Buffalo Bills Shelve Flubs

You can still order Bills gear. Nobody needs to know after which game you shopped. Look for apparel that appears to have been antiqued for a week. If you order something from Fanatics, it’ll fall apart in no time. Fans might be again panicking after the next outcome, but at least there will be a precedent of competence this season to encourage levelheadedness. Brace for surprises like Matt Milano being Buffalo’s best cornerback.

Getting infuriating drives out of the way is efficient in retrospect. The second outing’s opening felt like enduring a rough 2018 in order to shed unwanted contracts. Anyone who feared a sequel of the opener experienced the dread of spotting patterns. But the perspective of characters changed as gradually as in a Whit Stillman film.

Hulking Ken Dorsey is now raging out of happiness. He’s passionate about outsiders noticing suspect play-calling, which also coincidentally has taken place during a dip in the quarterback’s decision-making. Whether he’s motivated by fury or adapting to the job, improvement in action beats inaction.

If you can’t start off good, at least learn from what goes badly. Dawson Knox’s touchdown was as clever as the earlier fourth-down throw in double coverage to him was not. The second half’s first score reflected an ability to improve both the call and execution after seeing what doesn’t work. The Bills learned from what failed like they were Run Lola Run’s titular character.

Some incompletions bring hope. You’d get it if you cheered for a team with Josh Allen. It’s heartening to see him take acceptable risks such as the throw he tried to fit in to Dalton Kincaid near the half’s end. An incompletion knocked down by the defender was nonetheless worth the shot. The ball hitting the turf means the down didn’t even end in disaster.

Seeing the youngest of the group’s options integrated so soon is itself heartening. The Bills are beginning to enjoy the benefits of doubling up on tight ends, which should assuage those who were nervous about drafting a player at a spot where they already had someone good.

Waiting for Jimmy Garoppolo to screw up is an okay plan. An active scheme aided the passive concept. Greg Rousseau has been finding enlightened ways to disrupt passing attempts. His emergence doesn’t make up for missing on Boogie Basham, but a the roster featuring a sufficient quality of talented edge players seems like a nearly adequate excuse. By contrast, the inactive Kaiir Elam is a Naked Gun 2 1/2-style kind of bust.

It’s nice having numerous options in multiple groups. Running backs with complementary skills aren’t just more thrilling than having three guys who play similarly. Deploying the James Cook/Damien Harris/Latavius Murray triumvirate didn’t just mean Allen only had to dash three times himself. The alliance of players with different powers resembles a Marvel superhero team. Their story is more character-driven like the Defenders rather than some garish special effects-laden production involving that other group.

Buffalo’s most prominent resident took what the Raiders gave him, which is way more fun than giving the Jets what they desired. Allen didn’t need to attempt foolish throws that weren’t heroic, either. Our scolding shamed him into behaving, so keep up the fine social media work. Remind him that it’s ultimately helpful to not make regrettable decisions.

Take comfort in having more examples by percentage. This is the one occasion per year when there are twice as more. The second game balanced out rough opener like a yin-yang symbol a spring break drunkard regrettably chooses as a first tattoo. Was your astrological sign unavailable?

Mid-September is the strange time of year when we’re stuck with a quite limited sample where each has dramatically less of an effect. We get one comfortably sweet result to accompany that rather bitter one. The example poll will be down to one-third during the next game and so forth.

An upward trend brings value even if the wins are worth the same. Students hope professors recognize progress over the semester’s course and weighs recent grades more heavily than when you were clueless at the semester’s opening.

There’s a tradeoff to time advancing that it turns out is unavoidable by current understandings of physics. Each game played of course means fewer chances left to influence the overall makeup. Followers are trying not to fret too much after experiencing two tries. At the same time, you may have heard how few teams have made the playoffs after starting 0-2 during the 14-team tournament era, namely one team.

An infinitely more welcome result offers distractions from other hassles, including getting to the stadium itself. The short-term aggravation of having nowhere to store cars is part of the tradeoff with forcing taxpayers forced to fund another stadium in a remote location. Well, that’s not a super deal.

Realizing in reality what a horrid decision repeating the stadium mistake has become was just the week’s unpleasant start. A Bills-employed reporter thought this would be the perfect week to criticize the team’s best and most sensitive receiver. The team worker has disappeared like Kelvin Benjamin. But at least there was a good result on the field to cancel out off-the-field drama. Football is about the people within the stadium, whether they’re competing or enjoying. It’d be nice to have a closer place paid for by the owner. But methodical domination after a shaky start is welcome occurrence no matter what’s around.

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bharat-ki-yojna · 1 year ago

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James Cook de Bills dice que es 'obviamente RB1' en Buffalo a pesar de las adiciones de temporada baja para reforzar el backfield

EE.UU. TSI James Cook esperó su momento como novato, ganando acarreos en la ofensiva de los Buffalo Bills. Los Bills vieron lo suficiente de Cook para pasar de Devin Singletary esta temporada baja, pero firmaron a dos veteranos en Damien Harris y Latavius Murray. ¿Eso genera suficiente confianza en que Cook sea el principal portador de la pelota? Cook cree que él es el tipo de…

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hawkvalley · 2 years ago

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Final Denver Broncos Post Week 20 (The 2023 NFL Playoffs)

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The 2023 NFL Playoffs

Quick Review

The Broncos beat the Chargers 31-28. In Coach Hackett’s final two games, the Broncos offense averaged 19 points per game, up from the season low of 11 points per game during the third quarter of the season. Under Coach Rosburg had the offense humming at a 28 points per game average. The Denver defense continued it’s downward slide. In Coach Hackett’s final two games, the defense gave up 33 points per game. Under Coach Rosburg the defense gave up 28 points per game. During the second quarter of the season, the defense played their best games. They averaged giving up 16 points per game.

This was a typical end of the season game for the Broncos. The team looked better than it did all season. It should be noted that every quarterback that played in this game had a QBR of over 100.

A longer review

This game took place in Denver on January 8 at 2:25 PM MST. The temperature at the start of the game was around 35 degrees.

The Broncos ownership spent $400 million for new turf and it was installed before the game. They plan to buy new grass for the 2023 season. I thought I would mention this since players were slipping on the new grass.

The Chargers started the game off from their 25 yard line. On first down, Austin Ekeler #30 tripped forward for a two yard gain. On second down, Justin Herbert #10 threw an IN-COM-PLETE pass. On third and 8, Herbert connected with Keenan Allen #13 for a thirty yard gain over the right side. On first down, Herbert found DeAndre Carter #1 on the left side numbers for a gain of eleven yards. On first down, Ekeler caught a pitch from Herbert and picked up 12 yards running to the right. With 12:30 left in the quarter, Ekeler ran to the left and picked up three yards. On second down, Herbert found Mike Williams #81 in the right side flat for a three yard gain. On third down, with 11:20 left, Herbert connected with Allen over the right side for a Los Angeles Charger touchdown.

Chase Edmonds #19 was back to return the kickoff, but a touchback placed the ball on the 25 yard line. On first down, Russell Wilson #3 found Courtland Sutton #14 over on the right side for a seven yard gain. On second down, Latavius Murray #28 ran up the middle for eight yards. On first down, Murray took the inside handoff and ran for three yards over the left side. On second down, the Broncos ran a screen to the right and Murray lost seven yards, but there was a flag on the play. Ja’Sir Taylor #36 was flagged for roughing the passer. The Broncos gained 15 yards. On first down, Russell rolled to the right before throwing an IN-COM-PLETE pass. On second down, Edmonds ran up the middle for two yards. On third down, Russell connected with Sutton on the left side, but just short of the first down marker. On fourth and one, Russell called his own number and he slipped forward for the first down. On first down, from the Charger 32 yard line, Russell had all day to throw but ended up throwing an IN-COM-PLETE pass. On second down, Russell ran up the middle for six yards. On third down, Murray took the inside handoff and ran up the middle for five yards. On first down, the Broncos ran a reverse to the right and Jerry Jeudy #10 picked up thirteen yards. On first and goal from the 8 yard line, Russell completed a shovel pass to Edmonds for a two yard loss, but there was a flag on the play. Joey Bosa #97 was flagged for a facemask. On first and goal from the 4 yard line, Murray ran up the middle for a two yard gain. With 3:55 left in the first quarter, on second down, Murray ran to the right for two yards and into the end zone for a Denver Bronco touchdown.

The Chargers started their second drive of the game from the 25 yard line. On first down, Herbert connected with Joshua Kelly #25 over the left side near the numbers for a six yard gain. On second down, Kelly was stuffed for no gain. K’Waun Williams #21 was removed from the game by the refs. On third down, Herbert threw an IN-COM-PLETE pass. The Chargers decided to target rookie cornerback Ja’Quan McMillian #35. With 2:41 left in the quarter, J.K. Scott #16 punted to Freddie Swain #86 and he muffed the punt. Delarrin Turner-Yell #32 recovered the ball for Denver at the 13 yard line.

On first down, Murray ran to the left for three yards. On second down, Russell avoided a sack but threw an IN-COM-PLETE pass. On third and seven, Russell was almost sacked at the two yard line, but he threw the ball away. IN-COM-PLETE. Russell could have been flagged for intentional grounding on the play. With 1:46 left in the quarter, Corliss Waitman #17 punted.

The Chargers took over from their own 47 yard line. On first down, the Chargers ran a screen to the left side and Herbert completed the pass to Gerald Everett #7 for a one yard loss. On second down, Herbert threw an IN-COM-PLETE pass. On third and eleven with 51 seconds left in the quarter, Herbert found Williams on the right side numbers for an eighteen yard gain. With 14 seconds left, Herbert recovered a bad snap for a one yard loss and that play ended the first quarter at 3:03 pm.

After one quarter in Denver, the score was tied at 7 points apiece.

When play resumed, the ball was on the Denver 37 yard line. On second down, Herbert found Josh Palmer #5 on the left side for a gain of nine yards. On third down, Herbert hit Allen on the right side hash for a twelve yard gain. On first down, Ekeler ran up the middle for three yards. On second down, Herbert fount Williams in the flat on the right side for a five yard gain. On third down, Ekeler ran to the right for four yards. On first and goal, Ekeler ran to the left for a one yard gain. On second down, Heckler rolled to the right and then threw an IN-COM-PLETE pass. On third and goal, with 11 minutes left in the first half, Herbert connected with Everett for a three yard gain and a Charger touchdown.

The Broncos started their first drive of the second quarter from the 25 yard line. On first down, Russell rolled to the right and then scrambled to the right for a two yard gain. On second down, Edmonds tried to run to the right but he lost a yard on the play. On third down, Khalil Mack #52 was flagged for being offside. On the second, third down, Russell slipped for a ten yard loss. Mack was credited with a sack. On fourth down, Waitman punted with 8:20 left in the half.

The Chargers started this drive from the 27 yard line. On first down, Kelly ran up the middle for four yards. On second down, Kelly ran up the middle for a six yard gain. On first down, Herbert found Allen on the right side near the first down marker for a gain of fifteen yards. On first down, Ekeler ran up the middle and fumbled. Josey Jewell #47 recovered the ball for Denver.

From the Charger 49 yard line, Edmonds ran over the right side for a gain of three yards. On second down, Edmonds ran up the middle for a one yard gain. On third down, Edmonds ran to the left, cut up field and gained 25 yards. On first down, Edmonds ran up the middle for six yards. On second down, Russell scrambled to the left and lost a yard. The Chargers called a timeout. On third down, Russell threw into triple coverage, IN-COM-PLETE. Derwin James #3 got a hand on the ball. On fourth down, with 2:44 left in the half, Brandon McManus #8 kicked a 33 yard field goal.

The Charger drive started from the 25 yard line. On first down, Herbert found Williams on the right side for a six yard gain. On second down, Herbert connected with Everett on the right side near the first down marker. That play took us down to the two minute warning.

When play resumed, Herbert completed a pass to Donald Parham #89 over the right side for an eight yard gain. On second down, Herbert was sacked by Baron Browning #56 for a five yard loss. Denver called a timeout. On third down, Herbert threw an IN-COM-PLETE pass. On fourth down, with 1:44 left in the half, Scott punted.

The Broncos started this drive from the 20 yard line. On first down, Russell threw an IN-COM-PLETE pass. On second down, Russell rolled to the left, avoided a sack and then scrambled for a five yard gain. On third and five, Russell threw an IN-COM-PLETE pass. With 1:18 left in the half, Waitman punted.

The Chargers started this drive from the 37 yard line. With 68 seconds left, Williams was flagged for roughing the passer. With 63 seconds left, Herbert connected with Allen on the left side hash for a ten yard gain. With 45 seconds left, Herbert found Ekeler on the right side hash for a six yard gain. The Chargers called a timeout. With 39 seconds left, Herbert threw an IN-COM-PLETE pass. With 35 seconds left, Herbert threw another IN-COM-PLETE pass. With 31 seconds left, Cameron Dicker #15 kicked a 48 yard field goal.

From the 25 yard line, with 26 seconds left, Russell dumped the ball off to Murray over the left side for a gain of fifteen yards. Denver called a timeout. With 19 seconds left, Russell rolled to the left and then connected with Jeudy for a gain of 57 yards. There was a flag on the play, Alohi Gilman #32 was flagged for holding. With 10 seconds left, Russell connected with Eric Tomlinson #87 for a three yard gain and a Denver Bronco touchdown.

With 6 seconds left in the half, the Chargers took a knee to end the half.

Halftime in Denver arrived at 3:55 pm. The scored was tied at 17.

The Broncos started the second half from the 25 yard line. On first down, Russell pitched the ball to Murray and he ran over the right side for five yards. On second down, Russell found Jeudy on the left hash for a gain of three yards. Jeudy slipped on the play. On third down, Edmonds ran up the middle for 23 yards. On first down, Russell hit Jeudy with a quick pass and he ran to the right for fourteen yards. On first down, Edmonds ran to the right for six yards. With 11:50 left in the quarter, Russell connected with Tyler Badie #36 for 24 yards and a Denver Bronco touchdown.

The Chargers first drive of the third quarter started from the 25 yard line. On first down, Herbert found Palmer over on the ride side for a gain of 18 yards. On first down, Tre’ McKitty #88 was flagged for a false start. On first and fifteen, Kelly ran up the middle for a four yard gain. On second down, Herbert threw an IN-COM-PLETE pass. On third down, Herbert threw another IN-COM-PLETE pass. On fourth down, Scott punted. On the return, Lamar Jackson #25 was flagged for an illegal block above the waist.

Denver started this drive from the five yard line. On first down, Russell connected with Jeudy for a gain of fifty yards. On first down, Murray ran up the middle for two yards. On second down, Russell’s pass was tipped by Kyle Van Noy #8 and then intercepted by Sebastian Joesph-Day #69.

The Chargers started their drive from the 46 yard line. On first down, Herbert connected with Parham over the left side for a gain of 23 yards. On first down, Ekeler ran over the left side for a gain of five yards. On second down, the Chargers ran the same play, but were stuffed for no gain. On third down, Herbert rolled to the right before throwing an IN-COM-PLETE pass. On fourth down, with 6:46 left, Dicker kicked a 36 yard field goal.

The Broncos third drive of the quarter started from the 25 yard line. On first down, Russell connected with Jeudy over the middle for a gain of 25 yards. On first down, Russell rolled tot the right and then completed a pass to Swain on the right side numbers for a 25 yard gain. The Chargers challenged the play and the pass was ruled IN-COM-PLETE. On second down, Russell went back to Swain in the right flat for a gain of two yards. On third down, Russell was sacked by Van Noy for a seven yard loss. With 4:35 left in the quarter, Waitman punted on fourth down.

The Chargers started their drive from the 12 yard line. On first down, the Chargers ran a sweep to the left and Ekeler picked up two yards. On second down, Herbert found Allen over the middle for a gain of fourteen yards. On first down, the Chargers tried a bubble screen to the left and Palmer gained two yards. On second down, Herbert threw an IN-COM-PLETE pass. On third down, Herbert hit Ekeler on a left to right cross for a gain of nine yards. On first down, Herbert pitched the ball to Ekeler and he picked up two yards over the right side. On second down, Ekeler caught a screen pass on the left side before gaining 19 yards. With 35 seconds left in the quarter, Herbert threw an IN-COM-PLETE pass. With 32 seconds left, Herbert connected with Carter over the right side for a 25 yard gain and then he fumbled the football. Jackson recovered the ball for Denver on the Bronco’s eleven yard line.

With 21 seconds left, Edmonds ran up the middle for a one yard gain, but Graham Glasgow #61 was flagged for holding. That play ended the third quarter.

After three quarters in Denver, the Broncos led the Chargers 24-20.

Russell scrambled to the right for two yards on first down. On second down, Murray caught a screen pass for a sixteen yard gain over the left side. On first down, Russell threw an IN-COM-PLETE pass. On second down, Badie was stuffed for no gain. On third down, Russell connected with Swain for a 52 yard gain down the right side. Swain appeared to have injured his back on the play. On first down, Edmonds ran to the right for four yards. On second down, Russell rolled to the right and then connected with a wide open Sutton on the right side of the end zone for twenty yards and a Denver Bronco touchdown.

The Chargers switched quarterbacks with 11:15 left in the game. On first down, Larry Rountree #34 ran to the right for two yards. On second down, Rountree ran to the right for one yard. On third down, Chase Daniel #4 scrambled to the right for four yards. On fourth down, Scott punted. Johnson muffed the punt and Gilman recovered the ball at the Denver 29 yard line.

With 9:05 left in the game, Rountree ran up the middle for a one yard gain. On second down, Chase completed a pass to Palmer near the first down marker for a ten yard gain. On first down, Chase found Allen on the left side for a four yard gain. On second down, with 7:15 left, Chase connected with Carter for a seven yard gain on the right side. On first and goal from the seven yard line, Kelly ran to the left for four yards. On second and goal, Chase rolled to the right and then connected with Allen for a three yard gain and a Charger touchdown. The Chargers decided to go for two. Chase rolled to the right and then connected with Palmer for two points.

The Broncos started this drive from the 25 yard line with 6:02 left on the clock. On first down, Russell rolled to the right before throwing an IN-COM-PLETE pass. On second down, the Broncos tried to run a reverse but Murray fumbled. Jeudy recovered the ball for a fifteen yard loss. On third and 25, Russell connected with Jeudy for a gain of 19 yards. On fourth down, Waitman punted with 4:53 left.

The Chargers started their drive from the 40 yard line. On first down, Chase threw an IN-COM-PLETE pass. On second down, Parham was flagged for a false start. On second and 15, Rountree caught a screen pass for a gain of one yard. On third down, Chase threw a pass that was intercepted by #35, but the pass was ruled IN-COM-PLETE. Denver challenged the call and lost. Denver called a timeout with 3:27 left. On fourth down, Scott punted.

With 3:14 left in the game, Denver successfully ran out the clock.

The game ended at 5:30 pm. The final score: Denver 31, Los Angeles 28. The game lasted three hours and five minutes.

Roster moves

Bronco have signed the following players to future contracts: WR Victor Bolden, RB Tyreik McAllister, G Parker Ferguson, OL Hunter Thedford, CB Falon Hicks, CB Delonte Hood, DB Devon Key, LB Ray Wilborn, OLB Wyatt Ray, DL Jordan Jackson. reserve.

Outlook

The big change coming this offseason for the Broncos is a new head coach. The Broncos have eliminated crossed one person off their head coaching list. University of Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh called Greg Penner to tell him he has decided to stay at Michigan. The remaining coaching candidates include Sean Payton, Raheem Morris, DeMeco Ryans, Dan Quinn, Ejiro Evero, Jim Caldwell, and Davic Shaw.

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