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The Denver Broncos kept their playoff hopes alive. Holy shit! What seemed impossible two weeks ago is now a serious discussion after the Broncos 24-17 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers (7-3-1) on Sunday. Denver (5-6) has now won two-straight games against playoff-caliber teams Brandon McManus Color Rush Jersey , and when you consider the remainder of the schedule, the impossible suddenly feels less so. Many in Broncos Country held out hope for this result. Now, the Broncos making a playoff run looks very real.Winners Shelby Harris His game-winning interception is enough to put him on this list, but when you look at his stats, you see he played a helluva overall game. Harris finished with three tackles, three quarterback hits, one pass defended and half a sack. Oh, and the game-winning interception in the south end zone. And if you didn’t know, Harris’ wife gave birth to their third child on Friday, a daughter. Talk about a memorable week.Will Parks If not for the Harris interception, this was the play of the game on defense. Not only did the Broncos safety prevent a touchdown, he forced a turnover. It’s proof why you never give up on a play. Parks also had six tackles.Denver’s defense As a whole, this unit delivered big play after big play. The Broncos may have given up a shit-ton of yardage to Pittsburgh’s offense (527), but to force four turnovers, get two sacks and allow 17 points is huge. As long as Denver’s defense creates turnovers like it has the last two weeks and the team wins, offenses can get all of the yards they want. Case Keenum For the third-straight game Shane Ray Jersey , the Broncos quarterback didn’t turn the ball over. In this game, Keenum also threw two touchdowns and 197 yards on 15-for-28 passing. The offense was clicking on Sunday, and there’s reason to think it can get even better in the last five games. It’s amazing what happens with this offense when it plays to its strengths. Phillip Lindsay All that’s left to say about this kid: he’s downright Philthy. Denver’s rookie running back finished with 14 carries for 110 yards and a touchdown. Lindsay also averaged 7.9 yards per carry. At some point, he’ll get more than 14 carries. I’d like to see that jump to 20-25. What makes this performance even more impressive, is Lindsay is the first running back to get at least 100 yards against the Steelers defense all season. To make Sunday even more Philthy, he set the Broncos’ undrafted rookie rushing record. And once again, Lindsay brought back the Mile High Salute.Emmanuel Sanders Denver’s veteran receiver led the offense with seven catches for 86 yards and a touchdown. The heart Sanders plays with is contagious, and to see the Broncos test the defense with his speed adds another element for the offense. Matt LaCosse The third-year tight end caught his first career touchdown. LaCosse also coordinated the celebration after that TD. LaCosse finished with three catches for 34 yards. When you add in Jeff Heuerman’s two catches for 44 yards, you see Keenum also is involving the tight ends. It’s the latest evidence Denver’s offense was clicking on Sunday.Playoff hopes Given a win over the No. 2 seed in the AFC, those hopes are very much alive. As noted earlier, when you look at the last five games that’s more than “hope.” The combined schedule of those five teams is 21-33-1, and that gets skewed by the Los Angeles Chargers (8-3). Not to mention two of those games are against teams in the playoff hunt. Both Broncos special teams Credit for the blocked field goal, but the fake field goal for a touchdown takes that away. So in this situation it’s both. Since we’re on special teams, Tim Patrick’s play to down the ball at the 3-yard line was epic. Of course, that gets lost because on the next play the secondary did its thing. Losers The Frequent Flyer Zone It wasn’t all rainbows and unicorns for Denver’s defense. The Broncos secondary was torched on Sunday. As the unit has done most of the season, it hands out yards at a breakneck speed. Von Miller It was good to see Denver’s pass rusher finally show up at the end of the game and get half a sack https://www.broncosfanstore.com/Shelby-Harris-Jersey , but he has to be better than that. It’s hard for someone to be invisible in orange, but Miller somehow pulled it off.Vance Joseph For Denver to win this game, we all knew it would have to overcome the incompetence of its head coach. For the second week in a row, the Broncos did that. It’s beyond evident opposing coaches know how bad Joseph is. We saw it Sunday with the Steelers’ fake field goal at the end of the first half. All that was missing was Mike Tomlin verbalizing it like Bill O’Brien did. Denver’s playoff hopes are alive, but it’s clear John Elway and the Broncos need to move on from Joseph. I’m probably now known as the MHR guy who took a stance to defend one of the most disliked people in Denver Broncos history - and trust me, I heard about it all week. I even received hate mail last week for the first time ever, but it didn’t make me second guess for one second what I wrote. I fully realize that the Broncos are a disaster from top to bottom and the head coach is part of the problem, but I still firmly believe that he is not the only problem. The vitriol and disdain are simply too much for a second-year guy whose team improved from its first-year dumpster fire. Though he has made many mistakes and some that are hard to defend, he deserves more time to warm up to his role and to have one more chance with a healthier and more talent-filled team. At least I believed all of that until Vance Joseph and the Broncos found a way to lose to the Cleveland Browns for the first time since the early 1990s. Even I, “defender of Vance”, can’t argue my way into him keeping his job following the end of this season. Losing two games in a row to two of the worst teams in football with just as many injuries and roster deficiencies as you, is completely inexcusable. Joseph must go, but the basis for my argument remains as strong as it was last week. This team has far more issues than just a young, inexperienced and occasionally clueless coach. This once proud franchise currently has a slap-fight between family members upset that their great man of a father/brother/husband didn’t sign the team over to them but rather to what is seemingly a group of greedy, non-football minded people. CEO Joe Ellis and GM John Elway are apparently at odds over the direction of the team and have chosen their private media men and women to try and salvage their own reputations as their team sinks like the freakin Titanic. As the CEO and GM trade barbs, their chosen head coach throws his own players under the bus. The players then throw their coaches under yet another big yellow automobile Bradley Roby Color Rush Jersey , and the fans throw the coach under yet another oncoming vehicle. This is a team that is at all levels, lacking accountability and is in every corner of the organization, selfish. Sure, some of the players take the blame for what has gone wrong but there have been several reports from inside the locker room that their teammates were laughing at them while they made their politically correct statements. So, though some of the players may genuinely take responsibility, it’s difficult to find any that are seriously willing to look themselves in the mirror and say, “this one is one me”.When you have such deep rooted, cultural issues as a company and as a group of men, there are only two ways to fix it and again find the selfless, winning attitude that Mr Bowlen brought to the Denver Broncos for so many years. Start from scratch and/or find a kick-ass leader. As of now the team as a whole has likely screwed up any chances of getting a top coaching prospect in 2019. The environment is not one that anyone will want to be part of and we should ask ourselves if there will actually be an option better than Vance Joseph. Since we can say for a fact that coaches are more willing to take the job in Cleveland than in Denver, we may as well admit that this is a team on the road to nowhere - and that’s a place quality coaches do not want to go. Should Elway, Ellis and everyone else involved in the higher echelons of this team get the boot along with Joseph and his staff? Should the players take more blame and work harder rather than quit on coaches they dislike?Should fans own up to their mistakes and understand that differing opinions don’t deserve your hate?Skipper Dude and I will discuss these questions and much more on the “Broncos & Bratwurst” podcast that you’ll find at the top of this post!