One of the VERY FEW games in which the #1 offense beat the #1 defense. Defense is more important than offense

I remember this game being flexed at the time because of the Chiefs surprise 9-0 start that seemingly came out of nowhere.

I never understood why Manning's offensive line(s) in both Denver and Indy always got so much credit. "Manning barely gets hit or takes a sack!"

Yeah, but that's only because he gets rid of the ball so quick. Watch pretty much every game he's ever played in the NFL. His linemen were always getting pushed backwards, beat around the edges, or sliced through on run plays. Jeff Saturday in particular spent most plays falling backwards. If Manning didn't have the quickest release ever, he would have gotten pancaked constantly.

It's crazy how a lot of these guys don't even play anymore.

Even with Peyton Manning and this much record setting talent, Adam Gase’s playcalling was still extremely vanilla and had nothing to do with their success. Predictable runs up the middle on 1st and 10 nearly every time for little gain, etc.

What if the 2013 Broncos offense and 2015 Broncos defense had been combined? Wow

Wish we could have seen Manning vs some of these newer-age AFC QB's. Herbert, Mahomes, Allen, Burrow, Jackson etc

Key Plays:

9:20 DEN: Prater 54-yd FG
11:05 KC: Sherman 16-yd rec from Smith
24:25 KC: Johnson 11-yd fumble ret
25:20 DEN: Jammer fumble recovery
27:40 DEN: D. Thomas 70-yd rec from Manning
29:05 DEN: J. Thomas 9-yd rec TD from Manning
36:40 KC: Bowe 26-yd rec from Smith
40:20 KC: Bowe 6-yd rec TD from Smith
44:20 DEN: J. Thomas 20-yd rec from Manning
45:10 DEN: D. Thomas 29-yd rec from Manning
50:00 DEN: Ball 1-yd rush TD
55:15 KC: Charles 35-yd rush
1:05:15 DEN: Welker 15-yd rec from Manning
1:09:25 DEN: Prater missed 52-yd FG
1:10:35 KC: Bowe 16-yd rec from Smith
1:16:05 KC: Smith 25-yd rush
1:29:10 KC: McGrath 21-yd rec from Smith
1:43:00 DEN: Decker 33-yd rec from Manning
1:44:30 DEN: Ball 8-yd rush TD
1:57:40 DEN: Welker 20-yd rec from Manning
2:10:15 KC: Avery 20-yd rec from Smith
2:14:35 KC: Fasano 10-yd rec TD from Smith

Key Stats:

KC:
Alex Smith 21/45 pass, 230 pass yds, 2 TD, 5 car, 52 rush yds
Jamaal Charles 16 car, 78 yds
Dwayne Bowe 4 rec (14 targets), 57 yds, 1 TD
Justin Houston 10 tackles
DEN:
Peyton Manning 24/40 pass, 323 yds, 1 TD
Knowshon Moreno 27 car, 79 yds
Montee Ball 8 car, 25 yds, 2 TD
Demaryius Thomas 5 rec (13 targets), 121 yds
Wes Welker 8 rec (10 targets), 72 yds
Julius Thomas 3 rec, 43 yds, 1 TD
Shaun Phillips 1.5 sacks, 9 tackles
Danny Trevathan 11 tackles, 1 FF

First big time  prime time game in the Andy Reid era for the Chiefs (no I’m not counting his wk. 3 Thu. night return to Philly, the hype for this game was easily 10x bigger)

I feel as though this game was more indicative of what should have happened in the Super Bowl between Denver and Seattle. Kansas City's defense is almost IDENTICAL to Seattle's, and no, the Seahawks' wasn't better. This KC defense ranked 1 in almost every category throughout the year, played the exact same air-tight press-man coverage, bumping receivers at the line to force QB's to hold the ball, and easily had a better defensive line than Seattle. Yet the offense moved the ball to the tune of 27 and 35 points against KC. The Super Bowl really felt like a fluke. I bet if the game would have been replayed 10 times, Denver wins 8 of them. Just so happened their worst case scenario happened at the worst time, as both their offense and defensive lines got crushed inexplicably.

1:34:00 it's pretty cool to see young Christian McCaffrey.

cooper dejean was at this game at the age of 10 lol

OMG ITS LITTLE WESLEY WELKER!!!! ❤❤❤❤

Cris Collinsworth didn’t talk much 💩 about my Broncs while The Sheriff was in town 😂😂😂 soon as he left nothing but 💩

KC might have had the #1 defense that yr, but CLEARLY, it wasn’t as good as a the LOB or the NO FLY ZONE. Both of those defenses won a SB.

Rahim Moore had No business calling himself the dream after the playoff loss to Baltimore (im a bronco fan)

can u put up broncos at the chiefs from

Peyton Manning has to be the most underrated querterback of all time

Back when Denver was good

Good ass Chiefs defense but Legion of Boom hits different.