Mile High Report
The Chiefs are dead, the Chiefs are dead, the wicked Chiefs of the AFC West are dead!
And it’s all thanks to the Broncos! Beating the Chiefs with a fourth-quarter comeback just before a Bye Week could not have been scripted better for the season, and I may be biased (well, of course, I am!) but I believe it was ultimate fans like us who gave the team enough juice to pull off that win on Thursday Night Football. The stadium was loud, the crowd was on fire and the team was primed to convert that energy into a victory.
And all that after a short week that saw a frustrating win over the Raiders. What a fun bye week to have. And it gets even more fun with jupistar’s UFG. There’s no Broncos game today, but there is one helluva read about them. So grab a coffee (or a beer, depending on your time of day) and settle in.
Damn, this is so much fun.
**MHR – Let’s just jump right in. How freaking awesome was that win over KC? Not only did the Broncos legit beat Mahomes & Co., but they knocked the Chiefs out of contention for winning the division!
jupistar: Pretty good. Now we’ve been to the win-over-KC party in the not too distant past, and by that I mean, in the Sean Payton era. The first major win over the Chiefs in a very long time came with Russell Wilson under center breaking a streak of 16 straight losses. That’s a crazy bad run and it took Sean Payton to get us right again. The game this last Sunday was just more pivotal because it felt more decisive. The team played like the team could when it’s not shooting itself in the foot with boneheaded penalties. Even though the score was close, I never had doubt we were going to win after our first drive.
**MHR – What was your favorite part about the win over the Chiefs?
jupistar: My favorite part of beating the Chiefs is watching their players, specifically Mahomes and Kelce, react to losing. Okay, let me be specific with an example – Ja’Quan comes screaming around the edge, Mahomes turns to see him and Ja’Quan jumps in the air in case Mahomes tries to fire the ball, Mahomes then pulls the ball back in and Ja’Quan lands on him, wrapping him up and taking him down easily. The next thing I see is Mahomes on his knees, one hand planted in the dirt, the other hand slapping his helmet. I don’t know what he was doing – knocking the dirt/grass out that Ja’Quan just made him eat or trying to claim “face mask” to the ref (not true… I watched that four or five times, McMillian was perfect on the tackle)? But either case is good and I smile looking at it each time – I like to imagine it’s like quantum superposition – he’s both...
