Last night. When he was a kid growing up, if your last name was sanders, he was cheering for you. So Deion Sanders was his favorite player. Barry sanders around here and those two guys would have been plenty proud of that one. He said if those two guys named sanders can play in the nfl, why cant i. Al the lions honored the late Charlie Sanders at halftime in a ceremony. Theres his name on the ring of honor. His favorite golfer was doug sanders. Cris dont get into chicken and all. I know where youre going with that. Al im going nowhere, thats where im going. So its first and ten at the 15 yard line. Detroit can stop the clock twice plus the twominute warning. From the pistol, anderson. To the 13 yard line. Cris well, it didnt cure the running game by any means for the broncos tonight, but this pistol formation sure has made Peyton Manning look more comfortable to me. Al a little action for those of you who have joined us a little late. Mannings numbers are part of the best outing for him this season. Stafford has had his moments. He had that pass to thomas at the end of the first half on a fourth and one and then the bruton interception, gigantic here. And denver is trying to make it a twopossession lead. Detroit can hold them to a field goal, its an eightpoint game, a onepossession game. Theyd have a ton of time. But first things first. Theyre down to one timeout. The clock will stop at the twominute warning. Its second down and eight. Anderson again. And hell go forward to the 12 yard line and now detroit will take its final timeout. So we are wrapping up week three here. Next week we go to new orleans where the Dallas Cowboys who had a big lead today and watched that go away against atlanta, taking on the saints. Football night starts at 7 00 eastern time and then we go to the dome there. Atlanta, 30 under dan quinn. What a start. 3928. And the Carolina Panthers off to a great start as well against the saints. Mccown played today, brees inactive today. Well see about next week. Mccown 310 yards in the losing effort. But its dallas and new orleans next week on sunday night football. Cris Matthew Stafford wants one more chance. Every time they put Demaryius Thomas in there in the slot, they have tried to get him the ball. Al third and six. Pressure, throwing, caught in the end zone by daniels owen daniels for the touchdown so daniels has had a few drops tonight, and he finally collects one and does it in the end zone to make it a twopossession lead. Cris its one of those things that will never show up on the stat page, what Peyton Manning just did right there. He knew exactly where the pressure was going to come from. He redirected his offensive line. He moves to the right, hits the winning touchdown pass over the edge. He knew better than the Detroit Lions did what they were going to do on that play. Al and mcmanus now for the extra point. So with 2 28 left and only the twominute warning to stop the clock for detroit, its 2412. Cris peyton is going to redirect his offensive line. Hes going to tell them all to go that way. Hes going to leave that guy unblocked. Hes going to come so what is peyton going to do . Hes going to move that way and hit the route down here in the corner. Understood exactly what was coming for him. Just moved away from it and hit the winning touchdown pass. I dont know how you put that in statistics. You dont. But thats why Peyton Manning wins so many games. Al owen daniels, of course, coaches love to bring guys who know their systems. And with kubiak as the head coach at houston, daniels spent so many years there. Daniels was in baltimore last year so he just keeps following kubiak around the country. Adapting and adjusting, thats what you do in the National Football league and thats what the broncos have done over this threeweek period. Cris but look out. I mean theyre 30 with two wins over tough teams on the road and theyre starting to feel it a little bit. They have started to figure something out here on offense. Al and they go home next week to face minnesota. And then two road games after that at oakland. How about the raiders all of a sudden 21. And then theyre at cleveland are the broncos. You look at the remaining schedule, theyre going to have played half their road games in the first six games. So theyre going to have going down the stretch, its going to be six home and four on the road, including two home games against green bay and new england on a pair of sunday nights in november. Which will be on sunday night football. The dumpoff underneath. Second down and nine. Thats caught on the run over the middle to the 33 yard line. Thats going to take us to the twominute warning. The catch is made there by ebron. Two minutes remaining at ford field. Denver 24, detroit 12. Have to win a fight on sunday night denali highway. 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Al a little dump over the middle is incomplete. Second down. Cris if you want a little good news here for the Detroit Lions, i do think Laadrian Waddle coming into the game has done a pretty nice job out there at right tackle and thats been the big question. But no questions about that guy anymore. I think hell have a quieter week this week. Al hell shift to a laboratory frog instead of a rat this week. Cris i cant believe you did that in the open. Al i had to. Cant pass up a free rat, can you . Caught at the 31 yard line by theo riddickriddick. Cris dont leave me anything that openended. Ill get kicked out of here. Al how many times did you hear it all week long, all week long, about Peyton Manning, bad arm, whatever. And thats going to be a first down. Getting out of bounds is theo riddick. So the lions have got that trip to seattle next week. Right off the bat, toughest place to win in the league. And then arizona comes in and the cardinals are red hot. They get chicago in here. They get minnesota in here. The lions play three out of their first four on the road. Then they get three at home. That game at kansas city is really in london. Referee were reviewing the previous play. Cris i think they sort of reached the ball across the line. Theyll check that. Al well check out for 30 seconds. Pepper sauce. Most ribs eaten while calf roping. Yep, greatness deserves recognition. You got any trophies, cowboy . Whoomp there it is uh, yeah. Well, uh, well theres this one. Best insurance mobile app . Yeah, two years in a row. Well ill be. Does that thing just follow you around . Like a little puppy the awardwinning geico app. Download it today. patrick 2 pretty great. Ke to be the boss of you . patrick 1 how about a 10 raise . patrick 2 how about 20 . patrick 1 how about done . patrick 2 thats the kind of control i like. And thats what they give me at national car rental. I can choose any car in the aisle i want without having to ask anyone. Who better to be the boss of you. patrick 1 than me. I mean, you. Us. vo go national. Go like a pro. Al Jeff Triplett once again to the mike. Referee after review, the ruling on the field is changed. The runner stuck the ball out at the 25 1 2 yard line when he went out of bounds. The result is a first down, detroit. Cris there we go. Al 25 1 8. So 54 seconds, first down. Of course detroit needs two touchdowns. Theyre not in a position where they can kick a field goal and then onside. That took four seconds off the clock on the pass to lance moore. Cris you know what we have not seen out of the lions i think once this year . You remember how Matthew Stafford back in the day could scramble around a little bit and Calvin Johnson and theyd just throw it. The old playground thing, let him jump up over everybody and make a play. We havent seen any of those at least that i can remember this year. Al they need it. Joe lombardi calls the plays. And why not have another penalty. Referee false start, offense number 66. The defensive player moved but did not get into the neutral zone. Its a fiveyard penalty. Still second down. Al thats the 17th penalty of the game combined. Coming into week three, 15. 8 penalties were being called the first two weeks. The highest average through two weeks of any season since the 1970 merger. So if you think youre seeing more flags, you are. Second down and ten. Cris there he goes. Al thats von miller. Cris finally happened. Al they had two early sacks tonight. And now miller picks up one. Thats four for them. Cris there goes von miller running underneath again. Referee illegal contact, defense, number 30. Its a fiveyard penalty. Automatic first down. Cris just got enough of his foot. Al so thats negated. He does not get that sack, bruton is the guy who gets penalized. Of course hes been the hero in the Fourth Quarter tonight. They put one more second back on the clock. Cris we need some jeopardy music at this point. Al second down and ten. Cris youve got to score twice, so at some point youve got to sorta throw one in the end zone here, dont you . Al not sorta. Cris even Peyton Manning is going what is going on out here . Al second and ten. They swing it to the outside. Taking tiny little bites here. And riddick is out of bounds. Third and five. Cris i have no commentary. You know, i dont know. Al an old phrase in the business called emptying the saddlebags. Cris i just want them to go for a touchdown. Al yeah. Still underneath and thats incomplete. Dribs and drabs. Fourth down. Cris the completion percentage will look good. Al its one of those games. You see games where statistics look really good and then you have to look underneath the numbers. 31 out of 44 looks like a good night, 281. You know better. Fourth and five. Finally to the end zone and that is incomplete. Theres no flag, theres nothing. Half a minute. Whatever remains of this crowd, i want to say its a cascade of boos but there arent enough people left in ford fielright now for a cascade. More like a light shower. Cris a sprinkle. That was a sprinkle. Al sprinkle, right. Cris well, it was a huge loss for detroit and a huge win for the denver broncos. And aqib talib, lets give him a little credit. You cant ask for a much tougher assignment than he had tonight. He didnt win them all, but he won enough. Al you hold johnson to 77 on eight catches, bruton with a big play, turnovers were big in the game. Three takeaways for the broncos. The broncos go home, the broncos go to 30, the broncos will be favored against minnesota to make it 40. And all is well in the rockies. Cris there are a lot of people in this game plan for detroit that still wanted to shake Peyton Mannings hand because they know its not that many more opportunities coming around. Al 2412 the final. Well have the postgame report coming up. 3 f2 tuvieron muy bien los titulares Demaryius Thomas caught one of those tds among this is nine receptions and Demarcus Ware had four tackles and a sack and a half. Michele talks to demarcus, demaryius and de man. Michele bob, thanks. Peyton, you jokingly said to us last night, were still looking for our first win of the season. How does this one compare to the first two . This was a great team win. Obviously our defense did a great job creating turnovers. Getting us the ball back. We scored at some very critical times. Obviously the one at the end, i think we got a lot of momentum coming into the second half. The switch to the pistol formation, why do you think that was so success. . I dont know. It was something different. The coaches saw something, other teams had done that in the past against them and something that just as were still kind of forming our identity, something thats in our arsenal. So it will probably be in there the rest of the season. Whether we do it next week or two weeks after, who knows, but it was a good changeup for tonight. And forming that identity, i know you guys want to run the ball. How close are you to being balanced . Well, were still working. Just three games in, were still learning a lot about ourselves. Weve got five brand new starters on the offensive line that havent played together. So were just going to keep working and trying to create more balance. Congratulations. 30. Thank you, michele. Lets go to Demaryius Thomas. Peyton just mentioned the touchdown catch. What did you see on the play . The whole night they were looking at the quarterback so we took a shot. Took a shot, gave me a chance and i just wanted to make a play to try to go in at halftime. I talked to you earlier this week and you were not happy with the way you were playing. How would you evaluate tonight . Id say better. Id say better. You know i had a turnover, critical turnover when they scored the second touchdown. Night. I could do some things better but the only thing that matters is we got the win and were going home with a win so thats about it right now. Weve still got things to do. Congratulations. Thank you. Lets turn to Demarcus Ware. The defense came up with a lot of big plays. Four sacks, forced three turnovers. How were you guys able to be so effective tonight . I think it comes to how we prepare during the week. We work on getting turnovers during the week and it happens in the game. So were aggressive in the back end and try to win in the trenches in the front with the offensive line and defensive line. And it worked. Congratulations. All right, thank you. Bob. All right, michele. Lets bring in tony dungy. Tony, a lot to talk about Peyton Manning and the denver offense before this one. What did you make of your old quarterbacks performance tonight . Well, it was definitely better, bob. I guess you have to knit pick a little bit when youre as close to peyton as i am. Threw over 300 yards, hit 75 of his passes, so there were a lot of good things. But Demaryius Thomas talked about them squatting all night. He said the diefensive backs wee playing them tight. They only played three deep balls so i think they have to get more deep passing in the offense. Peyton has to get better at that if they continue to win. Its 30 for the broncos, all three wins close. Can they keep going like this . The schedule is pretty favorable, minnesota, oakland and then cleveland. Well, they have got a great defense and theyre going to ride that and rely on that, but i think theyre going to have to have something happen for them to continue to win. They have either got to start running the ball better or they have to hit some deep throws. Theyre not going to be able to be onedimensional and rely on just medium passing game. So maybe its the offensive line thats got to come around, but some way they have to either create some running game or create some more deep passes. All right, tony, thanks. Well turn now to mike florio of pro football talk. Mike, another week, another significant injury to a quarterback. Whats the latest on Ben Roethlisberger . Well, bob, they did an mri on that left knee tonight. The current expectation is that roethlisberger will miss four to six weeks with an mcl sprain and a bone bruise in that left knee. No acl tear, which was the best possible news under the circumstances because that would have ended his season. Theyll know more about the specific timetable as the week unfolds. One of the injuries last week that resulted in a quarterback missing a game today, drew brees of the saints with that shoulder injury. The question now becomes whether hell be ready to go sunday night when the saints play the cowboys. Rehab, treatment, rest. Can he get that shoulder Strong Enough to go on sunday night. And these quarterback injuries are causing some concerns, bob, in league circles because theres a potential connection between the reductions in recent years in offseason practice time, preseason practice time and offensive lines being behind defenses in the First Quarter of the season. This year with that rash of injuries, we could see the nfl start taking a closer look at increasing practice times in the offseason and in the preseason. Interesting point. Thanks, mike. Again, the final here in detroit, the broncos 24, the lions 12. Al and cris back to wrap things up, after this. Hey, what are you doing . I got 17 months until i can upgrade to the new iphone 6s. Im building a time machine so i dont have to wait. With sprint, i never have to wait. I get to upgrade to the newest iphone right away, whenever it comes out. Seriously . Seriously ive got to switch to sprint. ding whats that . My lunch. 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Of course when youre playing only 16 games and youre 03, it is desperation time and that will be the case for the saints. Well find out about drew brees, whether he can play or not. We know tony romo is out for dallas for a few more weeks. Brandon weeden was okay. The defense for dallas gave up 39 points to the falcons but thats the matchup next week. We were there a few years ago and drew brees came in there and put 60 on the board out there. So this is one of those you hope drew brees can come back and play. Hes the leader of that football team. But this is right now in the nfc east, who do you like . You kn, the Dallas Cowboys, you say they have got the lead, but they have all the injuries. The giants now have played their best game of the year last time in out. The eagles finally won a game. So who knows. Its going to stay interesting all the way until the end, i guess. Big win for philly. Hockey season is starting. Love it. Bob costas is going to go to johnstown, pennsylvania. Biggest hockey fan there is. Where i once watched the johnstown jets take on the Atlantic City seagulls. Youre going to have a good time, arent you . Well, you watched the game. The first game for which i was ever paid, although it was only 30 plus 5 meal money was the syracuse blazers against the johnstown jets in october of 1973. And the last time i was ever in the building was 1974. Ill return to be part of the coverage, a small part on nbcsn. The penguins against the lightning in a preseason game beginning at 7 00 on tuesday night. The Cambria County war memorial is the site for most of the filming of the paul newman film slapshot which we will show you immediately after the game. And the old johnstown jets that al saw and whose games i once called, they were the inspiration for the charlestown chiefs, paul newmans team in sl slapshot. Al, youve got the miracle and ive got the jets. And we all have baseball. Theres your final from detroit. 2412 is your final score so on we go to new orleans for sunday night football next week. Until then, its al michaels, cris collinsworth, michele tafoya, for our entire gang, saying good night from motown