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Originally Posted by BlackOp
My post wasn't about Denver playing games, late, on the road....it's about the conditioning issues teams experience when they play there, early, and its still warm out. It's magnified as they arent in "game shape" yet...
This has a trickle down effect as the season progresses. Chargers shut your team out later in the year but lost by 3 in the opener. They missed the PO by one game. Cowboys averaged 33 PPG in their following 5 games after scoring only 17 @ Denver.
Denver still has an altitude advantage even late in the season...but it's not as overt.
I stand by my assessment that this is a primary reason the Donks have been a .500 team even when they arent very good. They havent had back to back losing seasons in over 45 years..
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Week 1 vs Week 7... six weeks, nothing really dramatic.
Chargers started slow as they do anywhere every year and required 14 points in the 4th to be in it.
YoungHoe Koo (who?) had a late FG blocked/tipped and they missed 44 yarder with .05 left in the game. Dude had a 4 game career... Denver's fault they trotted him out there?
Statistically speaking there wasn't much different between the two teams in those games, outside of 1st downs for Denver were lower in week 7.
I didn't do a player comparison so I don't know who was or was not in both games for either team.
On to Dallas... Ok, so they 'avg' 33 points in their next 5 games.
28@ AZ, 30 vs LAR, 31 vs GB, 40 @ SF, 33 @ WAS
Scored 28 when they beat KC ... understand why you stopped at 5, drives the total down and it hurts
After that, they scored 7, 9 and 6 points... not sure that works for you either.