SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- The Denver Broncos have been a sometimes team this season.
As in sometimes they're good enough, and sometimes they're nowhere close to good enough. Sometimes they play playoff worthy football, and sometimes they look like the playoffs are some lost idea they simply can't recall.
And now the sometimes team finally faces a bottom line, or as safety Darian Stewart put it: "Now we have to play without bulls----ing around."
Because after Sunday's disheartening 20-14 loss to the San Francisco 49ers, the Broncos are hanging by the thinnest of threads in the AFC's jumbled playoff discussion.