20-16 loss<\/a> to Houston that spoiled their shot at the AFC West title in which they were 2 of 5 in the red zone while the defense allowed a pair of rare long touchdown passes to open the game.<\/p>\nPro Bowl kicker Cameron Dicker missed a field goal from inside 40 yards for the first time in his career and pulled an extra point wide for the first time this season.<\/p>\n
Party poopers<\/p>\n
The Broncos are the first team other than the Chiefs to win the AFC West since 2016, but their celebration of that status has been muted.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just didn\u2019t really talk about it,\u201d Payton said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou win the whole thing and that becomes another shirt,\u201d wide receiver Courtland Sutton concurred. \u201cIt is part of the journey. If you lose, it becomes a reminder \u2014 if it\u2019s the only shirt you have and you end up losing, it just becomes a reminder that you didn\u2019t finish it all.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou acknowledge it and say, \u2018OK, we checked that box.\u2019 Then you have to move onto the next one because there is more ahead. I know all the guys in that locker room will tell you that their goals are bigger than winning the AFC West.\u201d<\/p>\n
Winter wonderland<\/p>\n
Sunday\u2019s forecast for the unseasonably warm Mile High City is 61 degrees at kickoff. That would make it the second-coldest kickoff in Denver this season. The coldest was 60 degrees for a Thursday night game against the Las Vegas Raiders on Nov. 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you purchase a product through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. The Los Angeles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2064],"tags":[241,7,1014,262,2444,2443,6,31185],"class_list":{"0":"post-653677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-chargers","8":"tag-chargers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-los-angeles","11":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-losangeleschargers","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-nflraw25"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115837828531541035","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653677","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=653677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}