As the Broncos lined up for a fourth-and-2 play near midfield with 46 seconds left in the second quarter of their Week 3 loss, their offensive performance to that point could be described with any number of unfortunate adjectives. Perhaps ugly best sums up an attack that, to that point, had produced only 62 yards of total offense and had recorded only three first downs.<\/p>\n
It all changed with a brilliant play call from Sean Payton that led to a 52-yard touchdown pass from Bo Nix to his top target, Cortland Sutton. The Broncos lined up in an unusual jumbo formation, with tight end Nate Adkins sliding into the left tackle spot and the player who normally occupies that position, Garett Bolles, lined up as a tight end on the right side of the formation. The Broncos were selling a power toss with extra personnel to pave the way, but Nix faked the toss to Dobbins and Sutton, who was lined up just outside Bolles in the bunched formation, slid into the middle of the field, undetected by the Chargers\u2019 zone defense. Nix, who missed Marvin Mims deep on a would-be touchdown pass earlier in the half, this time lofted the ball with plenty of room for Sutton to run under it and then finish in the end zone.<\/p>\n
The splash play kicked off a stretch of 17 straight points for the Broncos in less than four minutes of game time.<\/p>\n
It should have gone down as the play that changed it all. But the end result was the same for the Broncos: another heartbreaking loss in a one-score game. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Broncos lined up for a fourth-and-2 play near midfield with 46 seconds left in the second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-178623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}