Phillip Lindsay hit the nail on the head almost as hard as he hits the hole.
“We have to convert on third downs,” the Broncos running back said after Denver’s 30-6 shellacking at the hands of the Kansas City Chiefs late Thursday night. “That’s the name of the game. And we didn’t do it and we put our defense in a bind. And we put ourselves in a bind. We’ve just got to be better on third down.”
A lot better. Significantly better. In the two-game split at Empower Field at Mile High this past week, a shutout of Tennessee and a humbling setback by the Chiefs, the Broncos went a combined three for 27 — that’s .