To be fair, the Broncos were missing some key starters on both sides of the ball. Do I think Seattle would've still won regardless? Of course. But I don't think the Broncos would've been blown out if they didn't lose a couple guys to injury
@@billpham632 even with that record setting offense and the amount of players they had scoring on a regular basis that year? I don’t think that’s an excuse. Manning, Moreno, both Thomas’s, Welker, and Decker all played in the game. It should’ve at the very worst been a one-score loss for them. And when they played Seattle in Week 3 the following season and lost a close game in overtime, that did even more to solidify that they didn’t have an excuse. The game to me just felt like Seattle showed up and Denver didn’t for whatever reason.
@@BrendanPappas I think I’ll agree with ya on that but make no mistake about it, that Broncos defense was damn solid. I’d say they lived off a bend don’t break mentality.
What killed the Broncos in the Super Bowl was their problem with slow starts and their reliance on comeback wins. That just wasn't going to cut it against the Seahawks
There was a couple of other things in it as well. Denver came in cocky, having beaten Brady they didn’t think anyone else would be a challenge. You could hear it in the interviews all week leading up to the game. They were all getting interviewed about being this record setting offence, and you could hear in their answers they expected to win. Meantime Richard Sherman’s outburst after the nfc championship win about Crabtree had taken all the media attention off the rest of the Seahawks. While the broncos were busy being media darlings, the only person on the Seahawks who reporters wanted to talk to was Sherman. It left the rest of the team free to concentrate on the work instead of getting swept up in the buzz. The broncos also came seriously unprepared for the crowd noise. Everyone always says the Super Bowl is a corporate crowd, but I was at that game, the crowd was all 12s and they were loud. The broncos didn’t even practice either stadium noise that week, but you can see when they were on offence they couldn’t hear each other… hence the safety to start the game. At the end of the day, the hawks were the better team when it mattered. There was a rematch between them early the next season that had to go to overtime to be decided (hawks won again, but only just). That’s how 48 should have gone, but the Broncos were underprepared. It was a hard lesson, but one they learnt in time for Super Bowl 50. I was there again and roles were completely reversed. Cam and the panthers came in cocky with their high flying offence. All week they were enjoying the spectacle, hamming it up to the media. But the broncos just shut up and got to work… and it showed in the game.
No, what killed the Brocos was that Peyton Manning was their QB. Lots of regular season wins. Playoffs....har, har, har. Look at his history. Har, har, har.
As a Colts fan, it was really fun to watch Peyton Manning put on such a show during the 2013 season. I'm really glad he was able to get another SB win under his belt, even if it did come off the back of the defense, and him not playing very well.
You should have mentioned that when Brady got the record of 50 TD passes in a season originally, he was breaking Peyton Manning’s old record of 49 that he set in about 15 games.
@zekeharris5276 I’m an accountant so accuracy matters to me. The score that they said makes it a 45 point difference when the actual point difference was 35.
Even though he had lost some of his physical ability he was so far ahead of everyone else mentally he completely dominated. He was throwing ducks at this point of his career and still threw for 55 TD’s that’s amazing.
As a broncos fan, it makes me feel good watching this than to think that it has been 8 years after the championship that the team didnt make it to the playoffs
It’s fairly well documented that crowd noise is what ultimately did them in. They were expecting a fairly neutral crowd, as tends to be the case in most Super Bowls. So they prepared their game plan accordingly, expecting to use verbal audibles/playcalls at the LOS. Instead, the crowd was so loud, it basically became an away game for Denver and they were forced to fall back on hand signals instead. The problem with this is that Seattle’s defense had watched enough film that they’d figured what most of Peyton Manning’s hand signals meant. So they started jumping Denver’s routes. Richard Sherman spoke about this at length in an interview. What floors me about this is at no point in the game did ANYONE on Denver’s offense figure this out. Not the receivers, not the offensive coordinator, not even Peyton Manning himself. Sherman even admitted that had Denver mixed up their route trees and thrown in some double moves, their defense would have been exposed. But it never happened and the Seahawks got away with it all game long. The rest is history.
And when they met in the regular season game the year following in Seattle, they actually tied the game up with with less than a minute exposing them with the double move go route twice on the same drive for big plays. Sometimes Manning over thinks it. Wilson drove them down in OT and won it anyways, Broncos finally figured them out.
Two mistakes on your video there: 1. The player who intercepted Manning for the touchdown in the Super Bowl was Malcolm Smith, not Malcolm Floyd 2. The final score of the Super Bowl was 43-8, not 48-3.
Manning wasn't just the QB. That was his offense. He was the OC, QB, and made that offense run. They did not have a good day in the Super Bowl, but neither did their defense... just one of those days. Great team, for sure.
That Super Bowl was over in 12 seconds. It’s like Mike Tyson said “everyone has a plan until you get punched in the face”. This game should really be the example of why Seattle had the greatest Defense in the modern era.
Lifelong seahawk fan. Love Payton. Some History. We used to play in the AFC west with Denver. My first Super Bowl I remember is 1977? I was 6. That’s a long ago memory. But what I remember was my older brother rooting for Dallas against the broncos while my granddad was going for the Broncos. I lived in Salt Lake at the time. Lots of broncos fans. They lost that Super Bowl. Fast forward a few years and 9 year old me got to experience a volcanic eruptio. We were up Highway 12 from Yakima(coop, played at my alma mata Davis HS). Fond memories I have from this time is camping. Mt St Helen’s rained dirt on my camping May 18th 1980. Anyhoo. Became a seahawk fan. But that defense was an all time D. There is one sure fire HOF from that D and he played Mike. Stacked with the best secondary I have ever seen.
The broncos was a great team that year. The offence was expensive and surgical. Defense was solid when everyone was healthy. They had a bad day against a legendary defense.
Hey, they’ve been there 8 times and won thrice. The Lions, Jags, Bills, Jets, Browns, etc. all wish they could get blown out in five super bowls and win just 3.
Yep. Broncos were also on the receiving end of the most lopsided loss against the 49ers in Super Bowl 24 with the score of 55-10. The second most lopsided Super Bowl was number 20 where the Bears routed the Patriots 46-10. Broncos also lost 42-10 against the Redskins in SuperBowl 22.
Colts fan, I was there in Indy for Manning's "Homecoming" game and yeah no doubt we gave him a crazy ovation. Then the game started and everytime they had the ball on offense we roared... only time I've heard Lucas Oil Stadium louder was against the hated Patriots in 2009 when Manning rallied from 17 down in the 4th q to win 35-34 in the infamous 4th and 2 game (I was at that game too). Luck passed for 4 tuddies and the Colts won... ending the Broncos 6-0 start and 17 game regular season win streak (Manning has a 23 game reg season win streak with the Colts). Mathis got his sack on Manning... Colts won, everyone went home happy. Manning 2 best regular seasons in my opinion are 2013 and 2009 and oddly enough that's the 2 years he got too but fell short in a SB... proving how hard it is to win one when you are dragging an average defense, a bad special teams... bad kicker... inferior coaching... etc. 2009 Colts went 14-0 in 2009 without B.Sanders... missing goat kicker in the playoffs... and Freeney hurt himself late in the AFCCG and was unable to be effective v Brees after the long halftime stoppage. Broncos v Seattle just started out with a nightmare safety and then it got worse. But that 2nd first half pick that lead to the rout was Manning just a half second too slow to get the pass off and got hit. That happens. He was so unlucky in so many playoff games over his career. the Ravens hail mary miracle pass... the kicker choking in 2005... kicker choking in 2000, losing in OT in 2008 never getting the ball in OT. Marvin Harrison horrible fumble in 2007 killing all momentum he had built up playing with a bum at RB. 2009 team unable and unprepared for an onside kick in the Super Bowl. Refs letting Patriot defenses at home maul his wr/te without penalty... only way to stop an offense that is unstoppable. AKA Patriots/Rams 2001 9-11 Super Bowl.
Here was my fantasy football lineup that year: QB: Peyton Manning WR: Demaryius Thomas WR: Eric Decker WR: Wes Welker TE: Julius Thomas RB: Knowshon Moreno It was an awesome season.
The way this season ended makes it hard for me to enjoy any of their accomplishments but looking back on it, it was incredible wondering how many they'd rack up on a weekly basis. I was super confident going into that SB 48 matchup and wow from the get go it couldn't have gone any worse
This was Peyton at his absolute best this offense was a high octane well oiled machine that would just demoralize teams it really seemed like there was no way to stop them until the afc championship game when the patriots held them to 26 and pretty much kept the offense under control I knew then the niners or Seahawks had a legitimate chance of shutting them down both of them played with a certain level of physicality the broncos hadn’t seen all season
That 2013 season was my first time watching football and i remember that 2013 patriots team had injuries all around the team. in that championship game, there was no jerod mayo, the pass rush couldn’t touch manning, and our corners kept getting cooked, but yet were able to make them settle for more field goals than touchdowns. That game set the blueprint for the seahawks to exploit the bronco’s offense
Who wants to hear about a goat offense that only scored 8 garbage time points in the Superbowl?? If you asked me they choked like Peyton Manning has done on numerous occasions
I remember one of the most consistent bets during manning in Denver were broncos first half….might not have always covered the spread and would give up some garbage time points…but that first half was a ridiculously high% lock
My friend is a huge fan of the Broncos and that year was my first year playing Fantasy Football. Just to piss him off, I picked a bunch of Broncos players and my trolling paid off huge.
Even tho my Hawks messed up bad the following season vs the Pats, I'm very grateful they stopped one of the best offenses in history to get their 1st! Will never forget how awesome it was seeing it all happen 🔥 #GoHawks
And then that same team had one of the greatest defenses of all time on top of their already great offense. 2015 Broncos is truly a slept on team and this is coming from a Seahawks fan.
06:50 you say Manning had his 5th 5+ TD game of the year, but he had 2 5+ TD games that year. He did end the season w 9 4+ TD games which is still unbelievably incredible.
This offense was a well oiled machine. They set records that still haven't been broken even with an extra game. And it's not even reall that close. The Cowboys scored 100 less points and the Dolphins had 500 less yards.. And yet, it's a bad thing to have a record setting offense like this. Record setting offensives just don't win Super Bowls. Think about it, 2013 Denver, 2007 Patriots, 1998 Vikings, 1983 Redskins... All set the points record and none won the Super Bowl. The 98 Vikings didn't even make it to the big game.
RIP Demaryius Thomas. I remember wondering what draft pick you would be when looking at a magazine on a Texas beach in a tent. It was a 1st time thing and it stormed one night.
I followed both teams pretty closely heading in to this game and while I fully expected Seattle to win, the blowout was a huge shock. The Broncos just seemed so massively unprepared for this game, I dunno if they bought into their own hype or what, but that first hit from Chancellor on Demaryius Thomas felt like the game was over. Like the Broncos were deer in the headlights from that moment forward, as if they somehow had never seen Kam destroy a fool before.
being honest from a neutral Jets fan that game ended on the first snap when it went for a Safety it was a clear sign of what was to come @@maevethefox5912
If this years superbowl showed me anything it's that more teams should.have a strong emphasis on fielding a dominant CENTER. CENTER may just be the most overlooked position on the offense while being the second most important position on any offensive line. We all saw the immediate impact of Denver losing their starting CENTER for this Superbowl right from the botched snap on the first play to watching Seattle's defense flood through A GAPS of Denvers offensive line I don't care what anyone says, if Denver has their starting CENTER then Manning is able to step up in the pocket to avoid pressure off the edges all game and the game is alot closer. If Denvers starting CENTER and Von Miller are healthy then Denver wins this SUPERBOWL .
From age 13-32, the AFC championship game had a Brees, Manning bro, Rothlisberger or Brady taking the snaps. Somewhat odd to not see or hear any of them any longer.
One of the greatest offenses of all time faced one of the greatest defenses pf all time. It should've been a much better game than it was considering I have the Legion of Boom as the fourth best defense of all time and the Manning Broncod the first best offense of all time.
Hey, you got a couple things mixed up about the superbowl. Malcom Smith was the DB who got the first pick, and the final score was 43-8. Don't worry about it tho!
The only time a great offense won despite a bad defense was the Chiefs last year against the Eagles. That defense got bullied around & Mahomes still won.
That game destroyed me! They were sloppy starting with the opening snap….seems like manning was the only one not in on the fix….😂😂😂 Nobody blocked, they weren’t completing routes….they were aweful. The one game of the year where it mattered most they did not show up….im finna cry thinking about it….😂😂😂
I've only ever played fantasy football once in my life and it was this season. My team got absolutely ravaged by injuries, but I still won the league because I had Peyton Manning.
He only beat Brees’ yards record by 1 yard because he only played one half of the final game of the season. Once he broke the record they pulled him out. He easily could have beat it by 100-150+ yards.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I could have swore that the final score was like 48 to 8 like the broncos scored one touchdown and went for a two-point conversion and that's it
