Last season, the Denver Broncos were riding high entering their Week 9 game in Indianapolis to face the Colts. The team was 7-0 and possessed a defense that was consistently striking mistake-forcing fear into the hearts of opposing quarterbacks, often battering them into proverbial submission.
During that Nov. 8 matchup, the defense tried to inflict that same force onto Andrew Luck. They crushed the quarterback from every angle, but he would not concede. Denver recorded 11 quarterback hits but just one sack, and the young leader willed his team over the Broncos, 27-24. Luck suffered a lacerated kidney as a result of the onslaught; the Broncos defense suffered a bruised ego.