With first place in the AFC West on the line, the Chargers lead the Broncos, 10-7, at halftime.<\/p>\n
The Chargers got on the board first, with a big play from Quentin Johnston leading to a 32-yard Cameron Dicker field. It’s been the Los Angeles defense, though, that has stolen the show so far. The Broncos did not have a first down in the first quarter, going three-and-out on each of their first three possessions.<\/p>\n
Bo Nix appeared to get going with a pair of downfield completions on the team’s fourth offensive drive, but he missed a major opportunity, just barely overshooting an open Marvin Mims on a deep ball. The speedy wide receiver had broken free of an otherwise-sticky defensive secondary, but the ball just glanced off his fingertips. That was, for the most part, the story of the first half for Denver.<\/p>\n
The Chargers extended their lead to 10-0 just before halftime courtesy of Omarion Hampton’s first NFL touchdown. Earlier in the drive, Najee Harris went down with a non-contact injury, so Hampton will likely carry the ground game from here on out, and that was a good immediate response.<\/p>\n
Finally, the Broncos broke through on their penultimate drive of the half. Facing a fourth-and-2 near midfield, Sean Payton called a timeout and drew up a deep ball to Courtland Sutton. The Chargers blowing the coverage — it looked like a miscommunication — made it an easy pitch and catch, and Nix made no mistake this time for a 52-yard score.<\/p>\n
Be sure to follow along for the exciting finish below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With first place in the AFC West on the line, the Chargers lead the Broncos, 10-7, at halftime.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[232,241,66844,67483,67487,67484,67485,67486,231,258,2426,7,262,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-386426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-broncos","9":"tag-chargers","10":"tag-chargers-vs-broncos","11":"tag-chargers-vs-broncos-kickoff-time","12":"tag-chargers-vs-broncos-live-stream","13":"tag-chargers-vs-broncos-odds","14":"tag-chargers-vs-broncos-spread","15":"tag-chargers-vs-broncos-tv","16":"tag-denver","17":"tag-denver-broncos","18":"tag-denverbroncos","19":"tag-football","20":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","21":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115244547705561019","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}