The Denver Broncos are the top seed in the AFC and on Sunday they will play the San Diego Chargers at Sports Authority Field at Mile High in the division round of the playoffs and the game gets started up on CBS at 4:40 pm ET and has Peyton Manning looking to set up a very anticipated game between him and Tom Brady in the championship round and this will be streaming online from the NFL.com website and has the potential to be a great one-six matchup.
Manning comes in after losing in this round last season to the Baltimore Ravens and now the team faces the Chargers after San Diego defeated the Cincinnati Bengals and it comes after he had one of the best seasons ever in NFL history. Manning is looking to win another Super Bowl and he set records with 55 touchdowns and nearly 5,500 passing yards this season and the Chargers bounced back under new head coach Mike McCoy after a few disappointing years and Philip Rivers comes in having improved from last year. The Broncos average nearly 40 points per game, but the Chargers just won here a few weeks ago and they won't be afraid to try and pull the upset and they looked very good on the road last week against the Bengals and that game ended up not even being close by the end of it.
The Broncos come into the game after winning their season finale against the Oakland Raiders and that saw Manning finish out his amazing years and now he is back in the playoffs and looking to complete his Super Bowl run. Manning is getting older and he knows this chance may not come again and he will have to go through Tom Brady and the Patriots to get there and that could be one of the best games of the entire season and it requires the team of course to get through the Chargers in a matchup of a number one seed and division winner against their AFC West rival and the number six seed in the Chargers.
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The Broncos were the best offensive team in the league last season and they ranked first overall in passing yards per game with over 340 yards and 15th in rushing and they will be very tough to handle even with the Chargers playing much better on defense. The team is ranked eighth in rushing yards allowed per game and they will need to shut down Rivers, Ryan Mathews and Danny Woodhead, while Denver has too many weapons to count for Manning in Eric Decker, Demaryius Thomas, Wes Welker and Julius Thomas and now Manning gets the chance to try to get into another AFc championship game.
Knowshon Moreno had over 1,000 yards this season and thomas led in receiving yards and Manning was over 5,000 passing yards and the team set scoring records and they come in having won four of their last five games and the last two of the season and that came after losing to the Chargers. San Diego got a great season from rookie Keenan Allen and last week the team got nearly 200 total rushing yards and this should be a great matchup and is the final playoff game of the weekend and comes after the Patriots won against the Colts on Saturday night and Tom Brady will be waiting to see where the team plays next.