Inside the Broncos' epic fourth-quarter comeback win over the Giants

DENVER -- As the antheral successful the vest, the 1 who keeps the timepiece for the web tv broadcasts and lets the officials cognize erstwhile it's clip to restart the game, spun his limb to signify the commencement of the 4th quarter, the Denver Broncos were successful a atrocious spot Sunday afternoon.

They were mired successful a multitude of mistakes connected some sides of the ball, down 19-0 to the New York Giants, with fewer possibilities and adjacent less reasons to hope.

The Giants had gained 292 yards connected the usually stout Broncos defence successful the archetypal 3 quarters, with rookie backmost Jaxson Dart throwing 2 touchdown passes, The Broncos had punted six times connected discourtesy and had six possessions spell for 21 oregon less yards.

"Not wherever you privation to be," Broncos backmost Bo Nix said. " ... But astatine immoderate constituent we're going to spell down and score, it whitethorn beryllium excessively late, but astatine immoderate constituent we're going to spell down and people ... We scored a speedy 1 successful the 4th and it was similar erstwhile we scored and got the two-point conversion, we knew however to play each of a sudden."

After 45 minutes of zero points, the Broncos ended up with 33 successful the 4th quarter, needing each of them to daze the Giants 33-32. Broncos newsman Jeff Legwold and Giants newsman Jordan Raanan supply a glimpse wrong a chaotic last 4th that turned a sleeper of a crippled into a back-and-forth contention that saw 3 pb changes successful the last 2 minutes and a walk-off, game-winning kick.

THE BRONCOS' FIRST touchdown was acold from conventional, arsenic wide receiver Troy Franklin dove to drawback a deflected walk successful the backmost of the extremity portion for a 2-yard touchdown, putting Denver wrong 19-8 with 14:08 near successful the 4th quarter. But possibly successful a amusement of karma, the Giants' ensuing touchdown besides came connected a ricochet.

On third-and-17 from the Broncos' 41-yard line, Dart threw a walk intended for wide receiver Wan'Dale Robinson that Denver information Talanoa Hufanga conscionable missed. But the shot clanked disconnected Robinson and into the air. Tight extremity Theo Johnson plucked it retired of the entity successful stride, moving from the close to left. He past raced down the near sideline and into the extremity portion for a 41-yard score.

Johnson: "Craziest play I've ever seen."

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