The Broncos are defeated by the Rams; Russell Wilson throws three interceptions

He took 15 games in a lost season, but the Broncos felt the ceiling cave in during

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a Christmas Day crisis. It all went wrong for Nathaniel Hackett and his staff at the wrong time.

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A beleaguered Hackett watched his team push themselves so hard that one could

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drastically affect his future, regardless of the argument. The effort was so lost in

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planning and execution that it likely destroyed whatever momentum Hackett had cobbled together in recent weeks.

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The Broncos generated silly fallout, led by Randy Gregory's inexplicable non-public foul inside the fourth

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zone, and tempers flared on the bench. He describes the sport in sentences: pass determine. A lot happened after the first play of the game,

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He took 15 games in a lost season, but the Broncos felt the ceiling cave in during

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