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The Denver Broncos are officially off to a hot start after Sunday’s 34-20 win over the Indianapolis Colts. The team played well in all three phases in Week 2 but, as they usually do, the Broncos saddled up to their defense to stay undefeated early.
While many players shined, here are our picks for the three players of the game:
Von Miller
Fifth-year starter Von Miller is a very rich man and on Sunday, he proved he is worth every penny.
No. 58 knew he had never sacked Luck before, and his mind was set on disrupting the flow of anything and everything the Colts were trying to do. Especially late in the game, Miller made Luck’s life a living hell, eventually notching three sacks and a forced fumble; the fumble was, of course, picked up and returned by Shane Ray to seal the Denver victory.
Miller now has four sacks through two games of the 2016 NFL season, best in the league.
Aqib Talib
Talib got the news Sunday that he was “unlikely” to see any disciplinary action from the league stemming from an incident at a Dallas nightclub in which Talib took a bullet to the leg.
What a better way to celebrate than to score your ninth defensive career touchdown. Talib read the eyes of Luck the entire way and was able to pick the ball out of the air and return it home the fifth time wearing Orange & Blue, a Broncos team record.
“Because I practice it. Ask my coach—when I get an interception in practice, I go score on it,” Talib said of his nose for the end zone. “Practice makes perfect.”
Trevor Siemian
A 2-0 start to your NFL career isn’t such a bad thing, especially when you improve from week-to-week. Maybe Denver does have an offense after all?
Siemian ended the contest with a modest stat line: going 22-33 with 266-yards and only one interception. On paper, that does not seem like a stellar performance, but the Broncos QB moved the ball extremely effectively in between the 20s and was able to complete passes to nine different receivers. Everything in his game improved from Week 1, and that is all you can ask for in such a young player.
“I don’t think you’re ever going to be perfect,” he explained after the game. “But like I said earlier it’s encouraging we are doing some good things. There are just a couple plays here and there that we want to clean up. Hopefully, we can do that and finish some of these drives.”
If the offense can begin to finish off their string drives, the sky is the limit.