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Broncos' Awful Loss to Eagles Makes Even Peyton Manning Sad

The Broncos turned a corner right into a brick wall.
November 15, 2021
Peyton Manning's feelings are understandable.
Peyton Manning's feelings are understandable. @Joe303
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After your Denver Broncos shocked the Dallas Cowboys last week, never-say-die fans capable of pretending the team's pathetic four-game skid following a hot start against terrible teams never happened began wondering if the Orange and Blue crew had turned a corner. And they had — straight into a brick wall.

The Broncos' dreadful 30-13 home loss yesterday, November 14, to the Philadelphia Eagles, a team they were actually favored to beat, shattered illogical fantasies about a playoff run. Twitter users responded with anger at quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, particularly after he made less than no effort to tackle the Eagles' Darius Slay during what turned out to be an 82-yard fumble recovery and return for a stake-in-the-heart fourth-quarter touchdown. (It may have been smart for Bridgewater to avoid potential injury, but the optics couldn't have been worse.) However, most of the vitriol was reserved for head coach Vic Fangio, an alleged defensive genius who allowed Philly signal-caller Jalen Hurts to pummel the Broncos with both his hands and his feet, like an MMA champion competing against a tackling dummy.

Things got ugly early. The Eagles manufactured a ten-play drive to start the game, and while the Broncos managed to get a stop and force a field goal, their offensive answer was a three-and-out that produced a one-yard loss. Worse, the Denver D put up all the resistance of a broken screen door in a tornado when Hurts and company took the ball and notched a quick touchdown moments later.

For a while, disaster seemed to have been averted; the Broncos tied the score at 10-10, thanks largely to the efforts of running backs Melvin Gordon and Javonte Williams. But the Eagles put up another ten-spot before halftime, and Denver cut into that lead by just three points during the last two quarters of largely ineffectual offense prior to the moment when Slay ended the suspense once and for all.

At 5-5, the Broncos remain in the running for the AFC West crown from a mathematical standpoint — but this is definitely a case where numbers can lie. An objective look at Denver following its latest belly flop in a must-win situation suggests that the team is incapable of a serious run, triggering a wide array of frustration on Twitter. Some residents of Broncos country merely seem as exhausted as Peyton Manning in the meme-ready image at the top of this post, while others are livid at Fangio, offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur (sidelined by COVID), quarterbacks coach Mike Shula (who subbed for Shurmur), and the rest of the Denver brain trust.

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