DENVER (AP) — This time, Shelby Harris wasn't there to knock down Derek Carr's 2-point conversion pass in the closing seconds.
Darren Waller hauled in Carr's 2-point conversion pass with 24...
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — The quarterback-receiver tandem of Drew Lock and Jerry Jeudy is supposed to be the centerpiece of the Denver Broncos’ offense for years to come. But when the youngsters...
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — For all the impressive milestones Justin Herbert had piled up early in the season, they weren't resulting in wins for the Los Angeles Chargers. Now, they...
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Kicker Brandon McManus is due back this week from the COVID-19 reserve list, and while that won’t settle the Denver Broncos’ cornerback conundrum or quarterback quandary,...
DENVER (AP) — The potential feel-good story for the Denver Broncos' emergency kicker turned into a nightmare with a missed field goal and two pushed extra points.
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — When the Denver Broncos were forced to play the New Orleans Saints without any quarterbacks last month, they vowed not to get caught similarly ill prepared should something...
DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Lions leaned on their dynamic duo for comebacks and they came through again.
Matthew Stafford directed the final drive with just 16 seconds left to set up Matt...
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — The Denver Broncos’ shunning of a long field-goal attempt last weekend is still being debated, and not just by flustered fans and perplexed radio hosts.
DENVER (AP) — Los Angeles Chargers coach Anthony Lynn pointed toward the official in the end zone who was momentarily waving his arms incomplete, hoping for that decision to be heeded.
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Brandon McManus and his powerful right leg were benched for the New England game -- in quite a few fantasy football leagues, anyway.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — The Denver Broncos waited two weeks to finally play again and they were rewarded with their biggest win of the season.
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — On a cold afternoon last December, a furious Brandon McManus ripped his helmet off and flung it to the ground after Vic Fangio summoned him back to the sideline just as he...
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Von Miller’s devastating ankle injury six days before Denver's season opener against Tennessee was especially gut-wrenching for Brandon McManus.
A year ago, Bill Belichick borrowed heavily from Vic Fangio's blueprints to throttle the high-scoring Los Angeles Rams in the Super Bowl.
Fangio's brilliant game plan in the Bears' 15-6 win...
DENVER (AP) — Brandon McManus looked up and saw the bright orange streamers atop the goal posts hugging the yellow uprights in the north end zone. Perfect, he thought. No wind. Thirty degrees. One...
DENVER (AP) — The officials ran past a bewildered Philip Rivers, who appeared to be looking to get one of them to stop to receive some sort of explanation on a game-altering pass interference...
DENVER (AP) — Even down to one healthy cornerback, another spitting up blood, three sidelined with injuries and one ejected for throwing a punch, Vance Joseph trusted his defense more than his offense.
The Denver Broncos' embattled second-year coach sent kicker Brandon McManus out for a field goal rather than go for it on fourth-and-1 from the Cleveland 6 with the Broncos trailing by four points and less than five minutes remaining.
CARSON, Calif. (AP) — Denver had lost six of their last seven going into Sunday's game against Los Angeles, but Chargers coach Anthony Lynn kept warning everyone that the Broncos were dangerous because they had been in most of their games until the final minute.
Lynn's words became prophetic as Brandon McManus kicked a last-second 34-yard field goal to give the Broncos a 23-22 win and snap the Chargers' six-game winning streak.
DENVER (AP) — Coaches made some curious calls, assertions and admonitions in Week 9 as the NFL hit the halfway point with some real head-scratchers.
Oakland coach Jon Gruden insisted the silver and black is still golden, saying he's getting calls from players dying to play for the Raiders (1-7) next season.
DENVER (AP) — Moments after Brandon McManus pushed his winning attempt wide right, the Denver Broncos were calling him "our guy" and "the best kicker in the league" and "a good dude."
No finger pointing. Not at the current moment, anyway.
McManus sailed a 51-yard field goal try wide in the final seconds as the Broncos lost 19-17 to the Houston Texans on Sunday. Denver fell to 3-6 with barely flickering playoff hopes and a coach on the hot seat heading into a bye week.
DENVER (AP) — For the first time in his life, Demaryius Thomas celebrated Brandon McManus missing a field goal.
Thomas won his hasty homecoming Sunday when his ex-teammate's windless 51-yard attempt drifted wide right, allowing the Houston Texans to escape Denver with 19-17 win .
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Injured punter Marquette King missed another practice Friday and the Denver Broncos were considering promoting new practice squader Colby Wadman to take his place this weekend against the New York Jets .
"I'm very comfortable with him, if he has to go," said coach Vance Joseph.
ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — Coach Jon Gruden was in no mood to rehash Denver's final drive that handed the Oakland Raiders a second straight defeat to open his tenure as coach.
Case Keenum and the Broncos were able to move the ball down the field with little pressure in the heat and altitude of Denver and get a 36-yard field goal from Brandon McManus in the closing seconds of a 20-19 victory Sunday.
DENVER (AP) — Ugly wins are a thing of beauty in Denver, where the Broncos learned all their hard lessons last year in the dreariness of defeat.
"We're sitting here 2-0 but we're struggling," Emmanuel Sanders after the Broncos eked out a 20-19 win over Oakland on Sunday on Brandon McManus' 36-yard field goal with 6 seconds left.
DENVER (AP) — Case Keenum already has this fourth-quarter comeback thing down pat.
Nail-biters are almost a prerequisite for a quarterback in Denver, where John Elway set the standard with 31 fourth-quarter comebacks and Peyton Manning added 11 of his league-best 43 while wearing navy and orange.
Keenum, the architect of the "Minnesota Miracle" in the playoffs last year, followed his comeback win in his Denver debut by leading the Broncos to a 20-19 come-from-behind win against Oakland on Sunday.
DENVER (AP) — Raiders quarterback Derek Carr had the hot hand on a sweltering afternoon, throwing strike after strike in a nearly flawless display.
The one thing he couldn't deliver: the first win in coach Jon Gruden's return to the sideline.
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Twenty-one months ago, John Elway was basking in a confetti shower as he put his fingerprints on the third Super Bowl trophy he's captured for the Denver Broncos and dedicated it to team owner Pat Bowlen, who's battling Alzheimer's.
Not much has gone right for Elway and the Broncos since that night in Northern California.
DENVER (AP) — By pulling off a rare win in Denver, the Cincinnati Bengals gave themselves a chance to do something that's only been done four times since the NFL adopted its current 12-team playoff format in 1990: recover from a 3-6 start to get their names on the list for the postseason party.
The only teams to do it were the '94 Patriots, '95 Lions, '96 Jaguars and Washington five years ago.
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — For many coaches, it's difficult to admit fault when things go haywire on the football field. They'll say things like, "Coaches coach and players play," and suggest that the game plans were great even if the execution wasn't.
Not Brock Olivo .
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Brandon McManus has been anything but money since signing an $11.25 million extension last month.
The fourth-year pro has missed a field goal in each of Denver's three home games so far, including a 29-yarder Sunday that would have removed much of the drama from the Broncos' 16-10 win over the Oakland Raiders .
DENVER (AP) — A fake punt by the Raiders late in the third quarter ended in a spectacular failure and an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty against flamboyant punter Marquette King.
DENVER (AP) — A fake punt by the Raiders late in the third quarter ended in a spectacular failure and an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty against flamboyant punter Marquette King.
DENVER (AP) — Denver Broncos quarterback Paxton Lynch left Saturday night's exhibition game against the Green Bay Packers midway through the third quarter with an injury to his passing shoulder.
Lynch, a first-round pick out of Memphis a year ago, was the runner-up to Trevor Siemian in the competition for the Broncos' starting job. Broncos coach Vance Joseph settled on Siemian earlier this week.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Vance Joseph isn't yet ready to declare a winner in the race to be Denver's starting quarterback between Paxton Lynch and Trevor Siemian.
If he is, the Broncos' head coach is keeping it to himself.
Lynch led three scoring drives in his bid for the job while Siemian, who started the preseason opener a week ago, came off the bench to throw a touchdown pass as the Broncos beat the San Francisco 49ers 33-14 on Saturday night.
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — The Denver Broncos spent four of their last five offseasons working out long-term deals with players they had franchised: Von Miller, Demaryius Thomas, Ryan Clady and Matt Prater.
There aren't any looming hefty deals bogging down the front office this year, but there is a simmering contract dispute: kicker Brandon McManus hasn't signed his $2.7 million tender in the hopes that agent Drew Rosenhaus can get him a long-term deal.
The Associated Press will hand out its individual NFL awards on the night before the Super Bowl in Houston. Until then, here are some off-the-beaten track honors to consider.
BEST GAME: The beginning of the end for the defending champions came in Week 12 in a frigid classic.
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — The Denver Broncos have many regrets from their 30-27 overtime loss to Kansas City last month. Going for a 62-yard field goal isn't one of them.
Dropped passes. Muffed punts. Fifteen flags. Surrendering an eight-point lead in the closing seconds of regulation. These are the things that sting from that cold November night.
"Yeah, it was tough," coach Gary Kubiak said Wednesday. "We kind of lost the game about three different times."
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — This is not what Trevor Siemian had in mind when he said he wanted to follow in Peyton Manning's footsteps.
The Broncos quarterback was placed in a walking boot Wednesday and held out of practice after spraining his left foot in Denver's 30-27 overtime loss to Kansas City on Sunday night.
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Long before he confronted the difficult decision of trying a 62-yard field goal in overtime, Gary Kubiak made another call that would come back to haunt him.
The Broncos coach didn't go for two after Bennie Fowler's 76-yard touchdown gave Denver a seven-point lead over Kansas City late in the fourth quarter Sunday night.
A 2-point conversion would have made it a two-score game.
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Nobody at Broncos headquarters is second-guessing Gary Kubiak's ill-fated decision to try a 62-yard field goal even though Brandon McManus's miss gave the Chiefs a short field to win it as overtime expired.
Not the coach himself.
Not his players.
Not even his boss.
"We're in this game to WIN," general manager John Elway tweeted Monday. "Although everyone's disappointed, we played hard and went down swinging!!!!"
DENVER (AP) — Brandon McManus was wide left and now the defending Super Bowl champs are on the outside looking in on the AFC playoff race, too.
The Kansas City Chiefs capitalized on short field position following McManus' missed 62-yard attempt to drive down and win it 30-27 on Cairo Santos' 34-yarder that clanked off the left upright and over the crossbar in the final second of overtime Sunday night.