Donkeys

Life is magical and full of joy. As a Broncos fan, I have two significant things I can celebrate tonight. In not too delicate terms, we're solid as a fucking rock and the rest of the league is covered in question marks. Fresh off a week when we beat the shit out of the now AFC North champion Baltimore Ravens, we saw Houston lose and New England look shaky today. All the while, Manning and the Broncos answered the question "what's better than 9 wins in a row?" with today's 10th straight win. We're on some next level shit here in Mile High.

The game against Cleveland was never in question, we scored on the first drive with a perfectly placed 22 yard cruise missile to the back of the end zone caught by Demarius Thomas, then on the second drive Manning put it up high for Eric Decker who came down with the 10 yard TD pass. In the second half we stepped on their throat with two more touchdowns, while only giving up 1 total TD on defense all day. D looked impressive all day, getting to the quarterback and stopping the Browns' running game. In summary today we handled our shit, while the rest of the contenders in the AFC couldn't stop stepping in shit.

The loss for Houston puts them at 12-3, a tie with us that they hold the tiebreaker for. But let's take a look at next week's matchup for both teams: We play the Chiefs, a team short on talent and heavy on hurt after the events at Arrowhead earlier this month. After Kansas City won their game on December 2nd against the Panthers with heavy hearts, the drained team has now lost 3 in a row, scoring only 1 TD in that span.

Houston, however, plays a pride game against the division rival Indianapolis, a team that regains their head coach Chuck Pagano, who has been cleared to come back to work after undergoing treatment for Leukemia. If there's one word the Texans should fear, its #chuckstrong, and if the Broncos win and the Texans lose, we'll be the number 1 seed. Couple that with a Patriots win, the Texans would fall to the 3 seed and lose their first round bye. Something about that seems too good to be true, but it is a distinct possibility now that the road to the Super Bowl in the AFC may go through Denver. Holy shit.

Then there's also the fact that the other "complete" team in the NFL, the 49ers, got their shit pushed in by the Seahawks tonight behind the strength of the 12th man at Century Link field (one of my favorite stadium nick names, the Clink). The aforementioned Patriots were down early and barely bested the god awful Jaguars. What does it all mean Basil? Well, we're sitting pretty right now, and with one week left in the regular season, I'm ready for the Broncos to go in to the playoffs with a head full of steam.