I must bring up a thought had at the time. When the clock was running down the Broncos threw a pass for the 1st down, caught and in bounds. They rushed to the line only to have Cutler take a knee and down the ball which wasted a play and kepp the clock running forcing the Broncos to waste their last timeout, one that would have been nice to have to set up the field goal. My thought was WTF? Why not spike the ball and stop the clock? Was it a mistake? Why the hell would you take a knee??? You take a knee to run out the clock!! Had to be a rookie error.
So they wasted their timeout and then ran a running play for about 5 or so yards which left the clock running as the field goal unit rushed to the field to get the kick off with seconds expiring. If you don’t have a timeout and there are only 20 or so seconds left and they run it up the middle? Sure probably to set it up on the preferred kicking hash mark but at that point the Broncos didn’t have such a luxury. They should have done a short past to the sidelines with an incomplete or out of bounds to stop the clock. Or just kicked the field goal.
Cutler is obviously no Elway with his last minute drive but he did get the job done which is why nobody really cares or is talking about this last minute game management.
