The Denver Broncos took care of business as heavy favorites last week, while the Los Angeles Chargers did not giving the Broncos their first AFC West championship since the 2015 season. With the Chargers locked in with a Wild Card spot, they don’t really have a ton to play for next week. Could that decision help Denver secure the AFC’s top seed heading into the playoffs?

According to FanDuel, the Broncos are 6.5-point home favorites over the Chargers in Week 18. The over/under stands at 40.5 for this matchup.

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The Denver Broncos are AFC West champions and are one game away from potentially clinching the top seed in the AFC, which would cap a heck of a three-year turnaround in the mile high city. To get there, they will have played six of their 17 games against 2025 playoff teams. And those games don’t even include the two against the long-eliminated Kansas City Chiefs.

If we based this years’ schedule off of who were playoff teams last season, then they would have faced nine games against playoff teams. I shared that tidbit, because the 2026 schedule suggests the Broncos...

You might respond to this headline with ‘and water is wet’ and I wouldn’t blame you, but I was looking over the Denver Broncos history and how often they have won a division title. In their 65 years, the Broncos have brought home 16 AFC West division titles. That’s not very many, but given their first winning season was almost 20 years into it then it doesn’t look so bad.

The other thing I noticed is that only those teams who had a franchise quarterback type player under center did they repeat often as division winners. 11 of those 16...

Week 17 has come and gone, and the AFC Playoff picture is becoming clearer as we head into the final week of the 2025 regular season. Both the Broncos and Patriots clinched their divisions this week, while six of the seven postseason spots have been clinched. The only remaining spot will be coming from the AFC North as the Steelers and Ravens compete for the division title and postseason berth.

The Denver Broncos are your AFC West Champs and have the inside track for the number one seed in the AFC. All they need to do is defeat the Chargers...

Welcome to Week 17 of the regular season!

Everything that needed to happen for the Denver Broncos to clinch the AFC West happened, so now we look for the less likely scenarios for an early clinch of the number one seed in the conference. For that to happen, they would need the Patriots, Bills, and Jaguars to lose to teams they are very unlikely to lose to. But it is the NFL, so who knows! At the very least, I’d like to see the Jaguars lose due to tiebreaker issues.

Week 17 Sunday schedule

• Arizona Cardinals at Cincinnati...

On Christmas Night, the Denver Broncos defeated the Kansas City Chiefs and put themselves in position to win the AFC West division title and clinch the one seed in the AFC and have homefield advantage throughout the playoffs. To win the AFC West, all they needed was to beat the Chiefs and have the Texans defeat the Chargers on Saturday afternoon. Well, the Texans came through, and the Broncos are your 2025 AFC West division champs.

Now, they set their sights on the one seed in the AFC and homefield advantage throughout the playoffs. For that to happen, the Broncos...

Things are going great right now in Broncos Country. The Broncos currently sit at 13-3, have already clinched a postseason berth, and are now your 2025 AFC West Champs. They still have a chance to clinch the one seed later today or do it next Sunday with a win over the Chargers in the season finale. The Broncos are having a magical season and are once again Super Bowl contenders.

However, as many of us remember, things were not always so pleasant.

Just three years ago, our Denver Broncos were the laughing stock of the NFL. They sat at 4-11,...

Broncos Country, the drought is officially over. With the Houston Texans defeating the Los Angeles Chargers yesterday, the Denver Broncos secured their first AFC West title in a decade. That season finished off on a high note when they went on to become Super Bowl 50 champions.

Their ascension to kings of the AFC West again is a fantastic accomplishment. Just several years removed from the dreadful Nathaniel Hackett experience, the Broncos have climbed their way back to the top despite having significant salary cap restraints due to the failed Russell Wilson experiment. I’m not so many of us were...

Good morning, Broncos Country!

For the first time in a decade, the Denver Broncos are AFC West champs.

Somehow, it feels like 84 years since the franchise has been in this position. It was a rough and tough 10 years since Super Bowl 50 …. to say the least. But the Broncos are finally out of the manure-laden doldrums and back atop the division. If that’s not enough, Denver is also in the driver’s seat for the No. 1 seed in the AFC Playoffs, which comes with home-field advantage and a bye.

It almost doesn’t feel real, that’s how...

Belated Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to all of you in Broncos Country. If you are like me and tend to choose function over form, this win felt good.

If you like style, I’m sure this game left a bad taste in your mouth. Our team looked rough around the edges in every facet of the game. But they finally put it together and locked down late in the game and came out with a victory.

Also, let me give a big, stinky pile of coal to Billy “I fix games to make money in Vegas” Vinovich. You and your...

Belated Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to all of you in Broncos Country. If you are like me and tend to choose function over form, this win felt good.

If you like style, I’m sure this game left a bad taste in your mouth. Our team looked rough around the edges in every facet of the game. But they finally put it together and locked down late in the game and came out with a victory.

Also, let me give a big, stinky pile of coal to Billy “I fix games to make money in Vegas” Vinovich. You and your...

The Denver Broncos are your 2025 AFC West Champions for the first time since 2015.

On Christmas Night, the Denver Broncos defeated the Kansas City Chiefs and improved to 13-3 on the year and set themselves up with a chance to clinch the AFC West on Saturday with a Chargers loss. Well, the Texans took care of business today and defeated the Chargers, which has clinched the AFC West for the Denver Broncos.

This is the Broncos’ 16th AFC West Championship, their first since 2015, and the first for Head Coach Sean Payton and quarterback Bo Nix.

The Broncos have...