After a three-interception performance in a humiliating 51-14 loss to the Rams on Sunday in Los Angeles, Denver quarterback Russell Wilson said, «Bottom line is I let us down, it can’t happen,» as the Broncos fell to 4-11.
— An embattled coach, sideline arguments, blown assignments, turnovers — and outside linebacker Randy Gregory then put the exclamation on it all when he threw a punch in the postgame walk-off. Indeed, the Denver Broncos felt their lost season swirl down the drain Sunday in a 51-14 loss to the Los Angeles Rams in SoFi Stadium.
It was the Broncos’ 10th loss in the past 12 games, and they are still 0-for-America in away games this season with their only «road» win coming over the Jacksonville Jaguars in London’s Wembley Stadium when they were designated the visiting team.
«I think they’re upset for all the losing, we all are,» Broncos coach Nathaniel Hackett said of the meltdown. «Every one of us, that’s unacceptable, that’s not what we’re about, that’s not what we want to do. We went in with a mindset we were going to win this game, but in the end we weren’t ready … It wasn’t good, it’s all of us.
» … It always starts with me, without a doubt, that’s embarrassing, I’m embarrassed. That’s not what we’re about, that’s not what we’ve done all year.»
And the good will Hackett and his staff, as well as the Broncos players, may have built up in last week’s win over the Arizona Cardinals, to go with the tenacity the team showed two weeks ago when the Kansas City Chiefs jumped to a 27-0 lead in a game the Broncos eventually made close, largely evaporated as the Rams scored on eight of their nine possessions in the game.
