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Originally Posted by ILChief
As bad as the offense and run defense was, we fell for a fake punt, had a punt hit Cooper for a turnover, a dumb int, and am inexplicable Avery fumble. All that crap and not getting completely blowed out was an accomplishment
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Yeah, it was a game where most of that went Denver's way - hard to win with that crap happening.
I was STUNNED when forced to punt again and they pulled the fake, sitting 14-0 at midfield on the road, I just didn't think they had the stones to do that. Impressive, could have backfired in a major way - could have been a major momentum switch.
Then, the punt hitting Cooper - crazy dumb luck.
And, I want to say that Manning has overthrown Sanders 37 times in the last few weeks on that same damn deep route to the right. It's crazy.
All season, I've said that McManus would cost Denver a win ... had they not replaced him, this would have been that week. Absolutely no way that nutsack nails 5 FGs. It's so rare to see them settle that many times, but McManus would have showed his McAnus and missed 2 of those.