Quick Review
The Denver Broncos lost to the Kansas City Chiefs for the second time this season, 23-30.
After the first matchup with KC, the spin out of Dove Valley was that they could beat KC if they cleaned up their mistakes. The Broncos lost the first game by 4 points. In game two they lost by a touchdown. That’s the sad part. The Broncos were unable to capitalize on their familiarity with the Chiefs. This begs the question, are the players improving with this staff or getting worse?
The Game stats
Time of Possession
DEN: 32:41 KC: 27:19
Play Selection
DEN 34 Passing Attempts, 262 yards: 30 Runs for 189 yards KC 34 Passing Attempts, 303 yards: 18 Runs for 49 yards
The Running Game
The Broncos Rushing Attack
Carries AYPC Long TD Fumble Lindsay 18 5 14 1 0 Booker 9 9 26 0 0 Patrick 1 13 13 0 0 Keenum 1 9 9 0 0 Sanders 1 -6 -6 0 1 *AYPC is average yards per carry
The Passing Attack
Receptions % Long TD Fumble Booker 4 100% 14 0 0 Sanders 4 100% 49 0 1 LaCosse 4 80% 8 0 0 Thomas 3 43% 11 0 0 Sutton 3 75% 42 0 0 Lindsay 3 100% 13 0 0 Patrick 1 100% 24 1 0 Heuerman 1 20% 4 1 0
The Quarterbacks
Keenum
Passing comp ypa TD INT Long Rating 68% 8 2 1 49 98 Rushing Att Yards Long TD 1 9 9 0 Sacked Times Yards Lost Fumbles 5 40 2
Mahomes
Passing comp ypa TD INT Long Rating 71% 9 4 1 40 125 Rushing Att Yards Long TD 2 -1 1 0 Sacked Times Yards Lost Fumbles 2 12 0
During the week
The Broncos traded Thomas to the Texans. Sanders was asked about the trade and radio personalities have interpreted those comments to mean, he’s sad that he wasn’t traded. He lives in Houston.
The highlight of Vance’s coaching career in Denver continues to be the Arizona game. That game reminds me of last years game against Dallas.
Talk about the future of Vance continued. What made this talk different than every other week, is that Vance has gained some support. Not as many people were calling for Vance to get fired. He has racked up several ‘moral victories’ this season.
Brief look at the Broncos winning percentage under Vance by quarter:
Qtr 1 Qtr 2 2018 WP 50% WP 25% 2017 WP 75% WP 0% *WP is winning percentage
The Chad Kelly trial gets started this week. He’s no longer a Bronco, but because he was at a team party, I suspect law enforcement has been looking into player activities this week. The fact that he was arrested near the end of the party means that for over four hours, he was welcome at the party and conducting himself well enough to not get kicked out. The police have said they didn’t find any trace of alcohol in his system. Local pot heads have said his behavior indicates he didn’t smoke anything. Enter in the TMZ reported theme of the party and we have a mystery on our hands.
Today’s teams ranked by stats
Broncos
Points: 20th
Yards: 13th
Passing yards: 20th
Rushing yards: 7th
Passing Touchdowns: 11
Rushing Touchdowns: 9
Pick Six: 2
Safeties: 0
Punt Returns for Touchdowns: 0
Fumble Returns for Touchdowns: 0
Net Turnovers: +1
Texans
Points: 15th
Yards: 15th
Passing Yards: 18th
Rushing Yards: 11th
Passing Touchdowns: 15
Rushing Touchdowns: 4
Pick Six: 1
Safeties: 0
Punt Returns for Touchdowns: 0
Fumble Returns for Touchdowns: 1
Net Turnovers: +3
Outlook
Houston has won 63% of their games, Denver 38%.
Today’s game is at home. Unfortunately for the Broncos, they haven’t won a game at home since week 2 against the Raiders.
Houston lost their first two away games of the season, but they did win their last away game versus Jacksonville in week 7.
Houston is on a five game winning streak.
During this period, Houston has outscored their opponents by 40 points. In that same time period, Denver has been outscored by 10 points.
Also, during Houston's winning streak, Houston beat two AFC conference opponents and two division opponents. Their net points, +42. Denver had a similar schedule during this period and their net points are -42.
Denver has yet to beat anyone outside their division in the AFC this year. In fact, in conference play, Denver has been outscored by 31 points this season.
Game time
Sunday afternoon 2:05pm MT
