Broncos QB Manning returns to action against Chargers

But the Denver Broncos are Brock Osweiler’s team now.

Peyton Manning threw four INTs against the Chiefs in Week 10.

Before a strong finish with Manning the Broncos struggled with Osweiler, though it wasn’t completely his fault.

The biggest name not on this list is that of Peyton Manning.

Whoever is under center two weeks from now in the Divisional Round of the AFC playoffs, it’s clear that their most important goal is winning, not starting.

Sunday’s game offers this fascinating nugget: Manning has not entered a game as a backup since his 1994 freshman season at the University of Tennessee, when he sat behind Jerry Colquitt and Todd Helton on the depth chart. He hasn’t looked comfortable in any of his starts, but Osweiler seems to run it the way Kubiak envisioned it.

“I just want to be able to get through this week at full capacity”, he said. “And he’s been fighting a losing battle”, said Denver’s Nancy Levine, a second-generation season-ticket holder. They were providing points and great field position for Manning earlier in the year and that contributed greatly to the team’s great start to the season. Tebow bumped aside Kyle Orton in 2011.

“The report wasn’t true Sunday, it’s not true today and it won’t ever be true … and I’m still angry about it, ” said Manning, who said he still is considering legal action. “When I was in there we ran the ball better, we held on to the ball better, and we caught the ball better”.

This is officially Osweiler’s team.

“We didn’t want them to lay down, but we wanted them to lay down a little faster than that”, Aqib Talib said with a chuckle.

Grigson has one year left on his original contract. “So it’s definitely a delicate dance”. 71,871 career passing yards! – on the bench? “That’s what really makes us go”, Harris said.

This team might not win the Super Bowl with No. 18, but does anybody think its chances are better with No. 17? To do so, they’ll need players such as Keo. It was nuts – one of the strangest, wildest periods in Denver sports history.

Manning’s work ethic and machinations at the line allowed him to find the underbelly of any defensive formation, adjust accordingly, and deliver the pass with precision. Sunday was the first time in his National Football League career that he was active and not the starter.

“I could tell something was wrong with Peyton”. He just hasn’t looked like himself all year. Young played in 169 games throughout his profession.

Penfield sat through a bitterly cold Monday night with his daughter, Christine, to watch another Osweiler nail-biter. The Broncos are coming off an overtime victory over the Cincinnati Bengals by a 20-17 final score.

That performance prompted Denver to pull Manning from the starting line-up to give him time to heal from various injuries including a torn plantar fascia in his left foot.

Kubiak said he chose to go with Manning after the Broncos were set back by their fifth turnover of the game during the third quarter. It wasn’t enough for some fans to close the door on Manning. “A week like I’ve never been through”. “He’s more than proved he’s a Hall of Fame quarterback”.

This could be the last game Mike McCoy coaches, and I still believe part of that decision will be determined with how well the team does today, on the road against a playoff team.

Several people still view Manning with rose colored glasses, stating he should be the guy despite the fact that he can’t throw a ball past ten yards anymore (without it resembling a wobbly punt) and he was posting his worst numbers since his rookie season, whereas Osweiler has played well and fits Kubiaks system way better. But for one week — and perhaps beyond – it’s Osweiler. He had 65 percent support compared with Trevor Siemian’s 23 percent and Brock Osweiler’s 12 percent.

Like Lawrence Taylor and Reggie White on defense or Jerry Rice and Don Hutson at wide receiver, Manning changed the game itself.