Peyton Manning seeking second opinion on foot

Osweiler threw for 250 yards and two touchdowns.

Peyton Manning taking it easy at Peaceful Pockets in a satirical video on view below. We covered the 11th hour for Manning already at this link.

The Denver Post reported that the Broncos’ overall offensive execution under Osweiler’s guidance may have been the most balanced all year.

The game was filled with mistakes, penalties, injuries and turnovers – including two fumbles on a single punt. He has an injury in the oblique and one on the foot as well. “So we were aggressive and came up short”.

However, Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio reports that Manning is “absolutely determined” to get back on the field and “firmly believes he’ll play again this year”. All of a sudden, he’s running [head coach] Gary Kubiak’s and, quite frankly, he has just not been effective. At that point in the game, we felt that was going to be maybe our last opportunity. “It’ll be Brock’s team eventually”.

Brock Osweiler is preparing for his second consecutive start for the Denver Broncos and Peyton Manning is seeking a second opinion on his injured left foot.

“We’re day to day, week to week”, Kubiak said. They are clearly making strides under Fox, who split with Denver in January after leading the Broncos to four first-place finishes in the division and a trip to the Super Bowl. The team is expected to work out former Minnesota Vikings starter Christian Ponder on Wednesday the team said.

“We have a lot of things that are kind of in the playbook, so that’s one of them”, Brady explained after the win. Osweiler drove the Broncos 74 yards to a touchdown in four plays on their first possession, and the Bears never caught up. “They want a quarterback for the future”.

“I’m told he now intends to play next year, even if it’s not with the Broncos”, Florio said during NBC’s pregame show on Sunday night. Are you winning in spite of him or because of him?

If anyone follows Manning’s career, you know he was not going out like that. But continuing to play beyond this season, at a level far below his own standards and in a physically depleted state, is setting up a very bad ending to a first-ballot Hall of Fame career.

Kubiak has said he’s intent on keeping an 8-2 team that still has designs on the big prize focused on the here and now – rather than focus on scenarios where Manning is healthy enough to return with Osweiler playing well. Sources say do not be surprised if it is an extended audition for Osweiler as Peyton Manning deals with plantar fasciitis and with a painful rib strain.

Defensively, the Bears applied plenty of pressure to Denver quarterback Brock Osweiler in his first National Football League start. The New England Patriots had just fallen to the Kansas City Chiefs by a score of 41-14 and it not only resulted in a fourth quarter benching of starting quarterback Tom Brady but also triggered numerous cries that the Patriots and – more specifically – Brady were done.