Former Broncos running back Phillip Lindsay was among the many Denver voices stunned after the Chiefs hammered the Broncos 31-10 on Monday night at Arrowhead Stadium.
Denver, which won the AFC West last season and snapped Kansas City’s nine-season run at the top, got handled from start to finish in the lopsided “Monday Night Football” loss. Lindsay, who made the Pro Bowl with the Broncos, didn’t hold back on X.
“Belt to ASS…. That’s what the Chiefs are doing… we can’t run, we can’t catch, we dam sure can’t tackle….
SMH.. #Broncoscountry,” Lindsay wrote.
He followed that with another blunt reaction: “Embarrassing performance from Denver man…. Broncos Country how you feeling?… #BroncosCountry”
The frustration was everywhere after the game, with Broncos fans piling on over the defense, the offense and the coaching staff. One fan wrote, “Not beating Chiefs is one thing.
Getting completely embarrassed is another,” adding, “This is a complete pathetic effort by defense, offense and coaching. They deserve all the crap that’s coming their way.
ALL of it. #broncoscountry”
Others kept it even shorter.
“Unbelievable! This sucks! #BroncosCountry,” one fan posted.
“Bro we’re cooked,” another said.
Another fan took aim at the defense: “This defense is massively overrated. The run D is complete garbage again. Making the Chiefs D look like the 85 Bears.”
And one fan said the night marked a low point for Denver’s young quarterback era: “This has been our worst game of the Bo Nix era.”
More reactions kept the same theme rolling. “It has been brutal tonight,” one fan wrote. Another said, “I’m waddling straight into a deep depression #BroncosCountry”
“Out coached and out executed. Need to figure it out quickly,” one fan posted.
One comment captured the broader mess: “I never thought we would be so impotent on both side of the ball
This is embarrassing”
And another summed up the issues in a simple list: “1. We can’t tackle 2.
Offensive line can’t block 3.we can’t stop the run 4. Offense has no identity”
The Broncos’ ugly showing left plenty of fans wondering how quickly things can turn after all the preseason optimism, and Monday night made sure nobody in Broncos Country had to guess how the mood had shifted.
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