New England Patriots vs. Denver Broncos

These teams have faced off at least once since the 2011 season. Only Peyton Manning (539) and Brett Favre (508) had more than Marino.

Brady has faced off with Manning 16 times. Last week, Osweiler started in place of an injured Manning and completed 20 of 27 passes for 250 yards and two touchdowns.

“I grew up a Broncos fan, a John Elway fan”. Her name is Chris Voss. Whether you agree with the decision or not, it came back to haunt the Bears. Did he do well, did he do okay? It’€™s their choice on who they play, when they play them. I haven’t seen that smile in a long long time.

The stats don’t faze the Broncos.

“Truthfully, I haven’t thought about that much”. In that game a few weeks back, he went 5-for-20 passing with four interceptions. The key part of his performance was that he did not turn the ball over. Now that Manning is in a walking cast (on the recommendation of Charlotte foot specialist Dr. Robert Anderson as a way to speed up the recovery of his torn plantar fascia), he’s giving Osweiler tips he has gained from 17 prior games against Belichick’s Patriots defense dating back to 2000.

Now that he has done enough to earn another start, coupled with Manning’s injury, his next test is against the Patriots as mentioned earlier.

“The Patriots game will be tough, but not impossible”.

The Broncos will be under relentless pressure, but after Brock Osweiler masters the “toe throw” this week in practice, his incompletions will go up, but the New England Patriots sack numbers will go down.

Could not agree anymore.

While the Patriots don’t run the ball well, what they do is use short passes as extended running plays. The Patriots have incurred multiple injuries on offense, but the Pats are still risky because they have Tom Brady at quarterback.

-Patriots CB Malcolm Butler vs. Broncos WR Demaryius Thomas. It lacks the punch of Manning-Brady, but this one will still be a fantastic matchup. “The Broncos usually have good teams and they play really well in that stadium”. He was helping me out at practice, asking me questions. The Patriots defense is giving up an average of 18 points per game and the Broncos defense is also giving up 18 points per game. He’s missed two games with a bad lower back…. And in this game, they will do just that.

While that’s a tremendous strategy in theory, it’s important to note that Denver will be able to throw double teams his way throughout the night.

Well said at the end.

Chiefs (-5) over Bills: I wonder how healthy Tyrod Taylor is. Osweiler is simply going to be out of his league and it’s going to sink the Broncos.

“We’ve got some ground to make up with him”, Kubiak said Wednesday. They certainly don’t give up many big plays. “That would open up huge opportunities for the defense to get some turnovers”. That was the sad day when former Patriot Wes Welker took out Aqib Talib (then a Patriot, now a Bronco) and Belichick said it was one of the dirtiest plays he’d ever seen. That is awesome. And very well can be true. Even in their Mile High House of Horrors. Every team has got good players, good coaches, good schemes. If there is one team equipped to stop Brady and Gronk, it is the Broncos. After taking a $4 million pay cut over the winter, he and Kubiak spent all offseason and the first two months of the season trying to mesh offensive philosophies, and it usually wasn’t very pretty.

It was 392 days ago when Rob Gronkowski sealed what many believe was the beginning of the Broncos’ end to their 2014 season. But that’s not why I’m predicting the outcome that I’m predicting.

The 11 guys on the Broncos’ defense hope to instill a little fear of their own.