History Repeats Itself...Again
By Adam Uribes
· Opinion
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· 1 min read
Life in general has a way of repeating itself. For all the doubt and wondering out loud in the opening month of the season, much of the narrative can be erased with a win on Sunday.
Let's get in the Way Back Machine and go back to last season. Amid a 0-2 start, Denver embarked on an East Coast swing for its first road trip of the year. Heralded rookie quarterback Bo Nix cooled off after a scorching-hot preseason. Taking into account the level of competition in Tampa Bay and the Jets (before we realized Aaron Rodgers is locker room cyanide), and going winless a quarter of the way into the season didn’t look unrealistic.
But then something weird happened: Denver played nearly flawless football in taking apart the Buccaneers relatively easily. A week later, in the remnants of a hurricane, Denver would again buck the odds and come out with a hard-fought win. Over the course of a week, Denver had gone from afterthought to dark horse and set the stage for the team’s eventual return to the postseason.
Snapping back to the present and on the road again, Denver would find itself back in the underdog role, facing the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles. After another tepid 1st half, Denver would go down by two scores only to rally back to stun the champs at home before jetting off to London on the strength of a 21-17 win.
With a win on Sunday, Denver would improve to 4-2 and would suddenly be locked with the ER Chargers for first place in the division. The point in all of this being? Life in general has a way of repeating itself. For all the doubt and wondering out loud in the opening month of the season, much of the narrative can be erased with a win on Sunday. Seeing how the schedule lines up for the next 5 weeks, seeing Denver at or around 7-3 heading into the home stretch seems downright peachy compared to the conversations Broncos Country was having just one week earlier.
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