What the Broncos’ TNF Loss to Chargers Means for Denver’s Playoff Chances | The Rich Eisen Show

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1. ND running backs making playoff appearances and being the difference makers has gotta hurt 🎉❤

   Kyren in LA
   Audric in DEN

   GO IRISH 🎉🎉🎉🎉

2. DB4L!!! We Bolieve

3. I’m gonna be honest nix doesn’t look as good as the media is saying. The players around him are making more plays than nix is actually making.

4. U. of Oregon keeps coaching up great quarterbacks and upstanding people.

5. Denver will miss the playoffs lol

6. hilarious when you're trying to make excuses for your team-Broncos

7. Bo Nix is a game manager

8. Rich feel better!

9. The disastrous penalty and free-kick before halftime gave LA some momentum. Then the flurry of penalties on the Denver defense in the third quarter put the Chargers inside the five yard line and led to an easy touchdown. That changed the game in LA’s favor.

10. Bo Nix is good, but he's no Justin Herbert.

11. Jim Harbaugh swept Sean Payton in his first season as Chargers head coach.

12. All those "wins" the Broncos have are pathetic. The only win that means anything is the win against TB, the rest are against terrible bottom-feeding teams like LV, NYJ, CAR, and CLE.

13. Hope Cincy makes it to the post season! You know how badass that would be ?

14. Broncos being so excited about finally landing Chad Pennington is cracking me up.

15. Too bad jets didn’t draft nix

16. You guys are missing that Cincy has Cleveland, these Broncos, and a Steelers team that may not need to play starters in their last 3. The Broncos have the Bengals and the Chiefs who may need a win for #1. Good chance the Cincy/Denver game next week could be for the playoffs

17. What I noticed was Bo looked way way faster running than I thought he was. Doesn’t look like a QB running

18. It's a great season for Denver as we had the 31st ranked roster and we finally have a QB after 8 years with terrible QBs! Also Herbert is the best QB in the AFC West right now

19. If you say he's your guy and follow up by saying "WHEN they had a running game", then he's probably not your guys.

20. I would say that after that Cleveland game the other teams figured out the D… That and I would also say that Sutton needs a little more help on the O.. I will also say that Payton likes RBs that can catch the ball like Reggie Bush..

21. I would have went for the first down with 4-5 minutes left. 😢

22. bo nix is still a rookie I'm not upset at all

23. Nix is just average

24. It's all good denver we got this little Dolph will handle this

25. Love the RE and teams take on this one with the Broncos. As a Broncos fan, Nix had the best take at the end of the game.

26. It means the broncos are out we ain’t beating the cheifs or bengals can’t score more than burrow and can’t beg the refs as much as the cheifs do so playoffs are over

27. I dont see denver making it unless cheifs win the next 2 games and sit the starters at broncos game

28. Colts win out are 9 and 8 how do they make playoffs above the team that has the tie breaker?

29. We need Riley Moss back something serious. He is the glue

30. If the BRONCOS find a way to not make the playoffs, I will be pissed. Very pissed.

31. Broncos fans just can’t see the OBVIOUS scenario playing out … bengals win out, donkeys need to beat KC in the final game of the season. And we all know how that will go.

32. Nothing for nothing with 7 teams making the playoffs the NFL is water down if the Broncos can't win 1 game they don"t deserve to make the playoffs , they only beat one team with a winning record beating the chiefs would be a statement !

33. Patton did Russell Wilson dirty. Bo Nix gets the benefit of the doubt too much. He throws a lot of interceptions, but the defense keeps bailing him out. Russell Wilson didn’t have that defense last year. He had a coach yelling at him on every play. I don’t see that happening with Bo nix.

34. Broncos are 0-5 against AFC teams with winning record and 1-6 against teams with winning record. 8 of their 9 wins came against teams which have losing record and many of them are fighting for better spot at next draft. You don't need to be football mastermind to figure out they are just avg. team which played a lot against bad teams because of weah schedule.

35. Needing to beat both the Bengals and the Chiefs is absoliutely not a cake walk

36. Nix will be best QB out of this class

37. Denver will lose out. We have a bright future, but not this year. Nix isn't the issue but the solution. Just need a tight end, get the backfield healthy, and improve the run game. Definitely overachieved. In the last draft, I suspected Nix was better than five of those QBs drafted ahead of him.

38. I think Bo Nix is 'the guy'. So far he's looked great on first half scripted plays but falls of in the second half when they go off script. But I thnk he'll improve off script with experience.

39. I’m feeling more confident broncos drop last 2 and Bengals make the post show

    Great year – Broncos will be great is 2025

    They’re still 4-5 players away

40. Felt Denver was gonna lose when a conservative approach to the end of the first half led to that fair catch free kick

41. If it wasn’t for the penalty’s it woulda been a blowout for a Denver win. They also have the 5th ranked offense in the AFC and top 5 defense in NFL.

42. Denver really needs to win their last two games, don’t count them out against KC because the Chiefs won’t have to win that so they may rest their starters and Cincinnati will be a tough game

43. I like Ashton Jeantry to Denver