Tag: John Fox

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The Super humbling of the highest-scoring team in NFL history began on the first play from scrimmage.

Sportswriting so often succumbs to the mawkish. If Kevin Costner wrote this script — for himself, naturally — you’d roll your eyes.

For two weeks, Manning and the Broncos heard about nothing but history. A digital loop replayed the nightmare from last year's playoff loss, Rahim Moore amazingly still misjudging the ball after all this time.

For those who weren’t in or around Denver at the time, it may be hard to believe that there was a vigorous debate, at least on sports talk radio, about the relative merits of Tim Tebow and Peyton Manning as the Broncos’ quarterback for 2012 and beyond.

  About twenty minutes after John Fox announced he had no injuries to report from Thursday night’s game — other than wounded pride, perhaps —...

Half an hour afterward, Peyton Manning was diplomatic about the third 50-point explosion of the season by the Broncos offense he runs.