DENVER — Sunday night at a snowy Sports Authority Field showed us and the rest of the NFL that the Denver Broncos have a big-time quarterback, a reliable and productive running game and one of the best defenses in the league: just the winning formula they planned on all along this season.
They just don’t have exactly the quarterback we all expected them to have as the season’s stretch run arrives. If there’s one thing that was made clear by the Broncos’ dramatic 30–24 overtime win against the previously unbeaten New England Patriots here, it was this: Sunday’s Brock Osweiler-inspired comeback means Peyton Manning won’t.