Early, I thought our protection and the things we did were good. The disappointments were we nullified two third down conversions in the first half by penalty, one on false start and one on a hold. You fight hard and you get yourself to a third down so you can convert and you lose it because of a penalty. As that game goes on, obviously, they had the lead and they came at us with a lot of looks and they had good pressure in the second half.

Denver is an outstanding football team. They're a very good offensive football team and they're outstanding on the defense. I think they're a complete football team. Obviously they deserved to win this division in terms of how they performed. I felt our guys came in here and fought and competed. We just weren't able to match the things they (Denver) were able to do.

We knew when the schedule came out (last December) we were going to play the team that won the Super Bowl, on the road, and that it's going to be a challenge, ... Every week is a challenge. It's a great opportunity for our guys.

Obviously, early it looked easy. It got rough. We did the things we had to do defensively and came up with a big drive in the fourth quarter. (We) had limited possessions in the second half, but came up with a big drive when we had to get a lead we could protect.

He had some great rushes. He had some big hits on the quarterback when he didn't get sacks and, obviously, he had three sacks. He came close to having a fourth.

I would liked for him to run out of bounds. That (free kick) is always a discussion. That's just the way it came up. He could have fair caught it, yes.

When Chris came back, he played well in the last ... games and did a good job on special teams.