In this Broncos news update, one Peyton Manning mistake might have cost the Denver Broncos a victory in the team's 26-20 heartbreaking defeat at the hands of the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday - the coin toss.
Manning called tails, just like he did before the game, and the luck of the flip ended up burning the Broncos.
“It puts a premium on the coin toss,” Manning said of the NFL's overtime rules, via Michael David Smith of NBC's Pro Football Talk. “I called tails at the beginning of the game, and went with it again in overtime. It was heads, and it proved to be a significant call. But that’s the way it is. And you’d like to not leave it to that, leave it to get to that situation.”
For years, the coin toss was even more important in overtime as the first score of any kind would end the game completely. With teams now having the chance to respond to an opening field-goal drive, the premium placed on the element of chance has diminished somewhat.
However, don't tell that to the Broncos' offense after they never saw the field in overtime on Sunday. It might not lead to significant change in the NFL's rules any time soon, but it's very possible the NFL could listen with Manning sounding the charge.
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