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Good morning football. Welcome to Good Morning Football. Presented by Old Trapper Beep Jerky. We're live in New York City. It's Friday, October 7th. I'm Jamie Yurtall. That's Kyle Brent. That's Peter Stringer. And that is a Super Bowl champion to my left, Jason McCordy. Tom Brady said he had a little bit more time to watch film recently. Bad football he was seeing. And then Colts Broncos said, let's put some stuff on game tape. No doubt about it. Oh, man, it's fascinating. We owe you the people authenticity and only a quality football product. So we will have a very brief highlight right now. Do you want to go to the lead block? Let's do it. Colts at Broncos. 12 to 9 Colts, they win. But all the talk is about nine points from the Broncos who go to 2 and 3, not scoring a touchdown in primetime at home. Russ, what happened? We went for it. We didn't want to end in a tie. We wanted to

try to win the game, you know, and that was our mentality. I think coach made a good call. I think we got to find, you know, I got to find a way to make a play, whatever it takes. It's very simple. I think at the end of the day, I got to be better. I got to play better. This team, you know, the defense plate their butts off tonight.

And at the end of the day, you know,

throwing two interceptions can't happen.

Can't happen.

You know, I let the team down tonight. And the good thing is, one thing I know about myself is I'm going to respond. I don't know any other way. Okay, so it came down to the final play last night. Takeaways from that Broncos loss to the Colts. So many directions that this could go in shockingly

because there wasn't a lot that went on. But it really, I felt like, demanded a lot of analysis about the Broncos especially.

Yeah, because we gave months to hyping what the Russell Wilson era in Denver was going to be. And this is not what it was. I am the first one to raise my hand and say, I got this wrong. I said Russell Wilson was going to be the MVP this season before the year started. I said that Coach Nathaniel Hackett would be the coach of the year. I'll wear that. I'll wear it because I was buying into all the stuff I was hearing in August from Denver, that this is working like you wouldn't imagine. Russell's leveling up all these guys who have been ready

to go and just needed a quarterback. Russell's our guy. Russell Wilson last night's game on

throws of 10 or more air yards went two of 14. But he throws the best deep ball of all time.

It's a beautiful deep ball. Fourteen on passes more than 10 yards. How about this? The Broncos

first six third down distances in the game,

third and 17, third and 16, third and 15, third and 12, third and 10, and third and seven.

Russell Wilson averaged six yards per pass attempt last night. This isn't an NFL offense.

This isn't an NFL quarterback right now. I don't mind as much that he missed

Hamler and that the entire game he was missing. We can't just blame the 69th minute on what went

wrong here. They were terrible for 68 minutes before that. This Broncos team is painful to watch.

And guess what? They're in prime time next week again. I don't think anyone was wrong from the schedule makers thinking you were getting something different. The final decision, all that Richard Sherman get into all that, or, you know, Jason, if you want to talk about that final decision to not run the ball in fourth and one and bring in Jerry Rossberg and all that, that's fine. I'm talking about the overall product. And I think as a whole, I think I can say this, as someone working on the NFL network,

I think the overall product, as Tom Brady alluded to, has not been great in some of these games. And quarterbacks like Matt Ryan and Russell Wilson have been great disappointments. That was tough to watch. And if you're a Broncos fan, I don't blame you for leaving before the game was over. It was tough to watch. And I think those Broncos fans leaving the game is how a lot of us felt at home.

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