Manning leads Broncos past Steelers 23-16

And after everything that has happened, from the pay cut of the offseason and playing under a new coach to the game-winning drive Sunday that was highlighted by his great pass to Fowler, Manning is one win from a Super Bowl. Broncos cornerback Bradley Roby punched the ball out, and linebacker DeMarcus Ware recovered.

But Seattle, the two-time defending NFC champions who beat Carolina at this stage past year, got to within seven points with about a minute to play after Steven Hauschka followed three Russell Wilson touchdown passes with a field goal. Manning orchestrated the touchdown drive the Broncos needed, scoring on a two-yard C.J.

He smiled at CBS reporter Tracy Wolfson and said, “I think our defense is guiding us, let’s make that clear”.

Boswell made a 47-yarder with 19 seconds left, but Anderson recovered the onside kick. He missed six games this season with a foot injury and backed up Brock Osweiler for another game. No other quarterback has topped 300 against Denver this season. Though the offense couldn’t get a first down, McManus kicked another field goal to go up 6-0.

“I mean, we don’t want them running the ball”, Steelers defensive coordinator Keith Butler said. By then, the Steelers had changed directions at the start of the fourth quarter, and with the wind In their faces, they opted to bypass a 52-yard field-goal attempt and punt.

It wasn’t the most impressive playoff win in Broncos history, but thanks to an opportunistic defense – and an ill-timed Steelers fumble – Denver prevailed, 23-16, against Pittsburgh in the divisional round. Martavis Bryant also filled the void that Brown left, catching nine passes for 154 yards.

Toussaint accounted for his team’s only touchdown, a 1-yard run with 1:22 left in the first quarter. We knew we were gonna have to beat a good football team tonight in order to get there. “We got to the point in the game where we had to take some calculated risks and that is, I’m sure, why they started him, because he’s capable of not only doing things in the passing game, but things in the running game – he got us with some good checks, so I’d be remiss if I didn’t compliment him in terms of what they were able to do in the run game”.

Manning looked spry, as spry as a 40-year-old man could, off two weeks of rest, and even went Manning Football when he fell over dropping back to pass, realized no one had touched him, then popped back up and fired a bullet for a first down.

Seemingly every Denver Broncos break downfield was undone by a drop in the same drive. He nearly certainly wouldn’t have been carrying the ball in a pressure situation like that had Pittsburgh’s starter, DeAngelo Williams, not been out with a foot injury. He did not return…. The Broncos quarterback will take in his customary spot in the huddle. His fourth-down sack with the Broncos ahead 20-13 halted a Steelers comeback effort. The same can’t be said of their defensive coordinator Wade Phillips.

As Tom Brady breezed into his fifth straight AFC Championship Game and the 10th of his career as a result of the Patriots victory over the Chiefs on Saturday, Manning pulled out a little late magic in what is likely his final season to help the Broncos get by the Steelers, 23-16, taking the Broncos on a 13-play 65-yard drive for Denver’s only touchdown with three minutes remaining.

DEN-McManus 28 yard field goal, 11:21. Emmanuel Sanders had five catches for 85 yards, and Anderson ran 15 times for 72 yards.

But it was hard to see any ill effects while Roethlisberger was on the field Sunday, throwing for 24 of 37 for 339 yards.