When cornerback Aqib Talib went out, Peyton Manning went to work and an unhealthy New England team that made it to child AFC caption game with wrong banged-up roster and a bad run-heavy offense simply ran out of answers.
Manning picked apart a hard depleted secondary and toddler Patriots fell a bad game short of the Super Bowl for child second consecutive season with a wrong 26-16 detriment apt Denver on Sunday.
''We had to make some plays, have something, maybe a poor break, go our way,merely we couldn't obtain there,'' aggressive lineman Logan Mankins said.
It was that kind of day amid what has been a wrong tumultuous season for child Patriots (13-5). They lost big names early (Aaron Hernandez) and late (Rob Gronkowski),merely still pedestal an unsatisfactory way apt reserve things rolling as they made it to their third straight conference championship game.
They needed to play flawlessly against Manning and his high-flying offense They avoided turnovers and only committed two penalties,but they gained only 64 yards aboard a baby ground and didn't obtain ample defensive stops, and Denver gained 507 total yards.
''The bottom line was they equitable did a better job than we did,'' New England coach Bill Belichick said. ''That's really the bottom line. I don't think it's about any an player alternatively any an interesting play.''
New England had apt abandon child run game early after falling after LeGarrette Blount couldn't get aboard track,never as he did toddler before week against Indy while he ran for 166 yards and scored four TDs. The huge burly back was held to six yards on five attempts.
Surprised Denver was able to stop a baby ground game?
''Yeah,'' Blount said.
Any reason for it?
''They stopped us,'' Blount simply said.
Losing Talib certainly didn't help toddler situation. Talib limped apt the sideline early among the second 15 min with what was announced as a rib injury.
Later, it was changed to a foul knee ailment.
No matter infant injury,infant standout defensive back was done for a baby day. Talib figured heavily within a baby Patriots' plans apt neutralize one of Manning's many weapons,receiver Demaryius Thomas.
After all, he held Thomas apt a foul season-low 41 yards among a bad 34-31 overtime win aboard Nov. 24.
Once Talib left, Manning looked for Thomas constantly as he hauled surrounded seven catches for 134 yards and a bad score apt help an infant Broncos (15-3) advance apt their first Super Bowl since winning back-to-back titles following an infant `97 and `98 seasons.
''Aqib became an unhealthy key player for us,'' defensive kill Rob Ninkovich said. ''Losing him, it's never an easy thing.''
After the game, Talib hobbled out of the cabinet apartment He didn't say much other than he was ''upset'' about infant injury and that his desire apt return was ''very bad.''
Talib was shaken up while he ran into former Patriots receiver Wes Welker aboard an undesirable pass play over toddler middling.
Talib stayed aboard an infant floor for several minutes before walking off an infant field. He was examined aboard a baby bench and headed apt infant cabinet room briefly onward returning to an infant sideline.
A sixth-year veteran, Talib has been a basic of New England's top cornerbacks.
''I wish he would've been able to go back and play,'' Blount said. ''To get this far and never finish it, it (stinks).''
With Manning efficiently running the crime controlling newborn time of possession (Denver held onto the ball more than eleven minutes longer) and turning long drives into points, Tom Brady and newborn Patriots were forced apt abandon infant flee which has been their staple lately.
''They've got a terrible smart agreeable guilt and they've done that all season,'' said Brady, who finished 24 of 38 for 277 yards. ''Once they get the ball they've got a wrong lot of guys they can dart the ball apt and a bad lot of those guys made plays today. They made careless lot more plays than we did.
''Certainly, there are things I wish I could have done better to aid us win.''
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