Amidst the Manning(s) hype, remembering Brock Osweiler’s contribution to the Denver Broncos’ title

Amidst all the talk of the Denver Broncos defense (richly deserved) and Peyton Manning, including whether his brother was happy he won (not deserved), let’s not for get the major contribution Brock Osweiler made to this Broncos’ title season.

Denver, both good and lucky, but that truly is what is needed in sports, if not life, was certainly fortunate that their AFC West rival, Kansas City Chiefs, got off to a (1-5) start, before winning 10 regular season games in succession.

Brock Osweiller was (5-2) as a Denver starting quarterback and made many big plays in their victory vs the Cincinnati Bengals in the last Monday night game, played in the penultimate week of the NFL season.

While Denver kicker, Brandon McManus, no relation to CBS sports head and legendary broadcaster, Jim McKay’s son, Sean McManus, was excellent in the playoffs, he missed a field goal late in regulation, vs the Bengals that essentially forced overtime.

The Broncos had not even clinched a playoff berth and certainly would not have been the AFC one seed and I believe not even the “2,” without that win vs Cincy.

By the way, in turn, with that loss, the Bengals were denied the top two seeds and a first round bye, eventually losing a heartbreaking wild card round game to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

The quarterback, who led the must win vs Cincy and did so passing the ball, not relying on the run nor the defense, was not Peyton Manning, but Brock Osweiler.

Two thoughts, if Manning has not been cast in every commercial maybe Osweiler can get some kind of credit card company/”who am I” ad.

Also if Denver is smart, Osweiler and not Manning will be their quarterback next season.

Either way they will not have intangibles, but at least with Osweiler they have some tangibles.