Best play of the game
The Broncos led the game Sunday night for just 1:11 of the contest. Their first three touchdowns came in thrilling fashion and kept hope alive that they could beat the Patriots who had won four out of their last five meetings. Tom Brady almost dashed those hopes in the last drive of regulation. He quickly led his team down the field to tie the game on a Gostkowski 47-yard field goal. After a spectacular display by the defense in the Patriots’ opening drive of overtime, it was the Broncos offense’s turn to try and take the victory. After two plays and timeout, Osweiler lined up under center but he quickly changed the play at the line of scrimmage.
“It was a check that we had worked on all week in practice. We were trying to run the ball [to the] weak [side]. They gave us a specific defensive front that we can’t run that ball into, so I checked to our second play that we called in our huddle. The line did a hell of a job and C.J. [Anderson] did the rest.”
What the line did, Ryan Harris and Evan Mathis in particular, was get out in front of Anderson on a sweep left. He made a defender miss, gained the edge near the Broncos sideline and ran in for a 48-yard touchdown and the victory.
“I said, ‘Man, this has a chance.’ And as I got a toss and I just saw Ryan [Harris] deep for me, and I thought, if he can get to the hole, I better be able to get to the hole,” Anderson said of the game-wining play. “You just got to get it to the big boys up front, they pretty much create the play and got me a chance to get on the safeties and make them miss, and the next thing you know is history.”
