I visited the Broncos Postgame

Couple of insteresting points to the press conferences given by John Fox and Peyton Manning after the Cowboys game last night.

1- The Broncos thought the Cowboys were going to try and let them score...and they were going over scenarios on how to not let that happen.  As soon as Romo threw the pick with 1:57 left, the Broncos had time via the 2 minute warning, to discuss the game situation in depth.  Denver was at the Dallas 24 yard line...already in FG range...and saw Dallas with 3 timeouts.  It became clear that the job was to have them burn those timeouts and score with as little time as possible...in fact, the perfect scenario would be to kick a FG with no time left, eliminating all chance of a loss.  THEY DECIDED AT THE 2 MINUTE WARNING THAT THEY WOULD NOT BE SCORING A TOUCHDOWN.

In fact, Peyton said that he was arguing in the huddle with Knowshon Moreno about how he needed to get the first down BUT NOT SCORE on 3rd down and 1 from the Dallas 2.  That's how exact and demanding and thought out this situation was from the Denver perspective.  Knowshon argued that he wasn't sure how he was supposed to get one yard, but not get two....but he did it...

2- Peyton didn't tell anyone in the huddle that he was going to keep the ball on the naked bootleg that ended up being Manning's first rushing touchdown since 2008...he didn't tell his running back...he didn't tell his line...he just decided on his own after his receiver went in motion before the snap.  He saw what the motion did to the defensive alignment and then just kept it himself.

This is the only way that his lineman sell the run blocking to the right side hard enough for him to be clear to run to the left. (according to Manning)