Broncos gassers, notable Week 18 quotes following loss to Kansas City Chiefs

Gassers and quotable pursuing the Broncos’ 28-24 nonaccomplishment to the Chiefs successful Week 18.

Broncos tally blocking

After posting consecutive sub-100-yard rushing games for the archetypal clip each season, the Broncos tally crippled bounced backmost with a season-high 191 yards. Melvin Gordon had 110 yards connected his own. But the deficiency of execution connected Gordon’s fourth-quarter fumble — Melvin Ingram coming successful untouched connected a busted blocking duty to unit a fumble and scoop-and-score — was the play of the game.

Broncos secondary

Cornerback Michael Ojemudia played coagulated successful his archetypal commencement of the year, with 2 passes defensed and a team-high 11 tackles. Plus, P.J. Locke and Caden Sterns besides showed good arsenic reserves. But Ojemudia dropped a imaginable interception connected the Chiefs’ opening TD drive, and Kyle Fuller dropped different 1 aboriginal successful the fractional earlier K.C. got a tract goal.

Vic Fangio

Once again, Fangio’s Broncos were close. There’s nary trophies for that. The analytics down electing to footwear a tract extremity with 4:41 near and down 7 are sound, but the Broncos had thing to suffer by going for it — particularly with Patrick Mahomes lasting connected the different sideline.

Quotebook

Vic Fangio connected the constrictive nonaccomplishment aft coming successful arsenic double-digit underdogs: “We had a accidental to triumph that game. But not winning it is the bottommost line, and we didn’t get it done.”

Drew Lock connected the nonaccomplishment to his hometown team: “I thought we had ’em.”

Garett Bolles connected a 5th consecutive losing season: “It sucks. I’m bushed of losing. I deliberation everyone’s bushed of losing.”

Bolles connected a 13th consecutive nonaccomplishment to the Chiefs:  “The’ve been dominating the AFC West for a agelong time, and we’re sick of it… I committedness you each — it’s going to beryllium a batch antithetic adjacent year.”

Bradley Chubb connected country for optimism going forward: “We’ve got this full offseason to build… I consciousness assured that this streak (of missing the playoffs for six consecutive years) volition extremity soon.”

Chubb connected his play (zero sacks successful 7 games): “This twelvemonth was my worst play arsenic a pro… It was trying connected maine mentally and physically. I’m obscurity adjacent wherever I privation to be.”

Justin Simmons connected his apology to Broncos fans: “I cognize the past fewer years person been pugnacious to watch, with america not winning and not being successful the postseason… My extremity is to get america backmost to what this enactment is utilized to.”

Simmons connected Broncos’ inability to adjacent retired wins this season: “That’s the communicative of our play this twelvemonth — conscionable uncovering ways to decorativeness games… We’ve fallen short.”cq comment=”” ]