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Broncos beat Giants, end 4-game skid
DENVER (AP)—The Denver Broncos still have their troubles with the red zone andyellow flags. The dark cloud that hung over them during their month of misery,though, is gone.
Kyle Orton(notes) drove them on six scoring drives, Matt Prater(notes) kicked four fieldgoals and safety Brian Dawkins(notes) led a ferocious defense 48 hours after calling aplayers-only meeting, and the Broncos beat the New York Giants 26-6 Thursdaynight.
Elvis Dumervil(notes) dumped Eli Manning(notes) twice, extending his NFL-leading sacktotal to 14. Dumervil’s second one came in the fourth quarter and resulted in afumble that sealed Denver’s first win since Oct. 19.
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Hosting their first Thanksgiving game since 1963 in the AFL, the Broncosreturned to the physical style of play that marked their 6-0 start and ditchedthe sieve that was their defense during their four-game skid.
Behind three takeaways, the Broncos (7-4) halted their freefall and pulledwithin a half game of AFC West leader San Diego. New York (6-5), which snappedits four-game losing streak on Sunday, fell two games behind Dallas, which beatOakland earlier Thursday, in the NFC East.
The Broncos outgained the Giants 213-38 in the first half but settled forfield goals on three drives, including their first two trips inside the Giants10-yard line as they continued their monthlong red zone struggles.
That led to an embarrassing mistake by the NFL Network, which accidentallyaired a profanity from Broncos coach Josh McDaniels.
After reaching the 7, the Broncos settled for Prater’s 22-yarder and a 3-0lead.
Their second trip inside the Giants 10-yard line turned into a game of flagfootball as tight end Daniel Graham(notes), left tackle Ryan Clady(notes) and center CaseyWiegmann(notes) all were whistled for false starts, and the Broncos sent out Prater fora 32-yarder that made it 6-0.
Coming out of a commercial break following that second field goal, the NFLNetwork showed a clip of McDaniels yelling at his players on the sidelinesaying, “All we’re trying to do is win a (expletive) game!”
The vulgarity was clearly audible to viewers, and announcer Bob Papaimmediately apologized to viewers.
In an interview with The Associated Press and the Denver Post, EricWeinberger, executive producer of the NFL Network, apologized to viewers andMcDaniels for the “terrible mistake.”
“It was on delay. We wish we would have caught it and bleeped it,”Weinberger said. “We apologize for ever airing anything like that, absolutely,especially on Thanksgiving.”
Weinberger added, “Everyone (watching on TV) thought it was live because itwas in live speed and it looked live. It came out of the truck. Honestly, wewould never go live and raise audio levels on anyone live. On the sidelines, wewould never do that. We came out of break and rolled it. It’s a mistake. We aresorry.”
“It’s the NFL Network,” McDaniels said with a shrug and a smile. “Doesn’tsurprise me.”
McDaniels has shown emotion on the sideline before. He often tells hisplayers and assistants to listen to the message and not the way it’s delivered.He’ll fist-up like Tiger Woods one game and curse to his guys the next.
“We’re not in this business to do that,” Weinberger said of the network’sblunder. “We’re in this business to show sports and to show the most emotionthat we can show. And the guy is an incredibly emotional, passionate guy.”
Denver finally capitalized on its good field position after Dawkinsrecovered a fumble by backup running back Danny Ware(notes), who was playing becauseAhmad Bradshaw(notes) was inactive with a foot injury, at the Giants 38.
Brandon Marshall’s(notes) leaping one-handed 28-yard catch set up Knowshon Moreno’s(notes)1-yard TD run that made it 13-0, and Prater added a 47-yarder to give theBroncos a 16-0 halftime lead.
The last time the Giants had gone into the locker room at halftime withoutany points was Jan. 8, 2006, in a wild-card playoff game against Carolina.
Lawrence Tynes(notes) kicked field goals of 39 and 52 yards in the third quarter topull the Giants to 16-6, but Brandon Stokley’s(notes) 17-yard TD catch from Orton madeit 23-6 and Prater added a 24-yard field goal.
“We didn’t have any tempo and we didn’t make any plays,” Giants coach TomCoughlin said. “We keep talking about winning the physical battle andcontrolling the line of scrimmage. We thought this would be the night and itwasn’t.”
Moreno ran for 88 yards on 19 carries and would have had 34 more yards wereit not for holding calls against the usually dependable Graham.
While some of the frustrations and faults linger—they committed eightpenalties Thursday night—the Broncos, who entered November without a loss, sawto it that they didn’t exit the month without a win.
Giants running back Brandon Jacobs(notes) said he wasn’t worried after the team’sfifth loss in six games.
“No, we’ve got a lot of talent and we know at some point it’s going to pickup,” he said. “We’ve got to really get our engine going for the next couple ofweeks.”
NOTES: Giants with injuries included TE Darcy Johnson(notes) (shoulder) and SMichael Johnson (groin). … Broncos WR-KR Eddie Royal(notes) injured a thigh late inthe first half and LB Wesley Woodyard(notes) left the game in the fourth quarter with aneck injury after DL Marcus Thomas went out with a shoulder injury.
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