Chapter 1078: Fight without blood
According to a professional sports study, Denver has the best home stadium in North America, with the NFL's Denver Broncos, NBA's Denver Nuggets and MLB's Colorado Rockies——
Home field advantage, ranking first in North America.
All because of the city’s geographical advantages.
Even the top players in various sports will encounter their own bottlenecks when engaging in top-level competition at a professional level, and playing sports at high altitudes will bring another source of stress and pose a severe test to their physical condition.
For tourists and fans, it is not difficult to get used to Denver's high altitude. After a day or two, you can resume normal activities, but competitive sports are different.
If players are not accustomed to the altitude, it will be difficult for them to improve and compete with a team that practices every day in a city a mile high.
Because Denver is located above sea level, players inhale less oxygen during high-intensity exercise, which makes it difficult for the lungs to inject oxygen into the blood. Continued lack of oxygen has a cumulative effect, increasing the player's heart rate and making breathing increasingly difficult.
Compared with cities at lower altitudes, players who usually practice at sea level consume 20% faster when playing in Denver, but their oxygen intake is 10% less. After one plus and one minus, the challenge for players playing in Denver is It's even more severe.
Because of this, the average team may only go to an away game one day in advance; but when league teams go to Denver to play, they often go to Denver two or even three days in advance to adapt to the environment by extending the training time, hoping to overcome the plateau. The difficulty of fighting.
However, this is still a problem.
In the NFL, there is more than one Devil's home stadium, and Arrowhead Stadium is becoming the scariest and most powerful Devil's home stadium in the past two seasons. However, Denver's "Mile-High" has always been a monster on a different level, geographically. Uniquely becoming the most special Devil's home stadium in the league.
It is precisely because of this that when other teams visit Denver, they must be equipped with oxygen tanks at all times. Players must inhale oxygen after experiencing fierce confrontations.
Judging from all signs, the Kansas Chiefs' visit to Mile High Stadium in the seventh week of the regular season is indeed the best chance for the Denver Broncos to upset.
Before the game, Denver Broncos players and fans were full of confidence.
Von Miller, Super Bowl 50 MVP, 2011 second overall pick.
Although he has never won the Defensive Player of the Year so far, he is undoubtedly recognized as the top linebacker in the league, and he is still at his peak——
Last season, he ranked 11th among the league's top 100 players.
That year, the Carolina Panthers used the No. 1 pick to select quarterback Cam Newton, so Von Miller has been the "second pick" since entering the league.
In the 2015 season, Newton won the regular season MVP, but Miller got perfect revenge by defeating Newton in the Super Bowl and being crowned Super Bowl MVP.
In the blink of an eye, three years have passed. Newton has been lost to everyone due to injuries. The once "Superman" is now scarred and on the verge of fragmentation; but Miller still stands at the top of the league and has evolved into the only superstar of the Denver Broncos.
"Levi, oh, I'm just looking forward to him."
"I hope he won't use the last game as an excuse to get out of this defeat. He played so hard against an injured and disabled Watt. I think Levi has started to go downhill."
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"So we always say don't be anxious when it comes to players, stick with it for at least five years, otherwise you will be like Cam Newton."
Newton:? ? ? I didn't provoke you!
Sarcastic and confident.
However, when reporters threw these words at Levi to fan the flames, Levi was not angry.
Not only not, but with a smile on his face.
"Haha, I believe he is praying with his fingers crossed that this day will come as soon as possible. How many times has he lost so far?"
"One, two, three..."
Levi actually clapped his fingers there, his face full of sincerity.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I can't count. But I'm pretty sure the number of times we lost, zero, the number of times we lost to the Denver Broncos was zero."
"So, I don't blame him for talking nonsense there, I express my sincere blessings." Cruel, cruel enough.
Hit someone in the face, a fatal blow.
Rumor has it that when Miller went to the team for training the next day, he had a dark face and scared several child fans who came to ask for autographs to tears.
Clearly, the Denver Broncos are eager to beat the Kansas City Chiefs.
In the past three seasons, the mired Oakland Raiders ended the Kansas City Chiefs' six-game winning streak at home in the 2017 season. The aging Los Angeles Chargers made a strong comeback in the 2018 season and overturned the Kansas City Chiefs at home. That leaves the Denver Broncos unopened.
And it’s the Denver Broncos, the closest Super Bowl champion.
Before the strong rise of the Kansas Chiefs, the Denver Broncos were the dominant team in the American League West; but now, the Denver Broncos have become the only team in the American League West that has not defeated the Kansas Chiefs in three seasons.
This is simply unimaginable.
If nothing else, the Denver Broncos need to defeat the Kansas City Chiefs as their rivals in the same division, and Von Miller must get rid of this label.
The Oakland Raiders and Los Angeles Chargers both defeated the Kansas City Chiefs at home.
Therefore, now is the opportunity. Von Miller is not willing to wait even one more week. He knows that defeating the Kansas Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium will be another kind of happiness, but he really has no patience to wait any longer——
Now, immediately, immediately, they need to get rid of the hat of being the only team in the AFC West that has not been able to beat the Kansas City Chiefs in three seasons.
That's a shame.
Maybe some people will say, that’s it? This is not a matter of life and death. It is just the victory or defeat within the division. It has no direct relationship with the playoffs or the Super Bowl. It is not even a game that determines the division championship.
so what?
But Denver Broncos players and fans will say it's the "little things" that make it even more humiliating and devastating.
They need to get rid of this "mere label" as soon as possible, not even a day longer.
What's more, the grievances and grudges between the rivals in the same district are more important than the Super Bowl championship to some extent. Anyway, the Denver Broncos don't want to see the Kansas City Chiefs continue to be defeated.
The Denver Broncos were united up and down, inside and out, and even regarded this game as a life-or-death battle for the season.
pity.
The reality is cruel, not only skinny, but also bloody.
"37:6".
The away team is in front and the home team is in back.
The Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Denver Broncos without any blood, retreated from a mile high, and remained undefeated at the home of the league's No. 1 Devils for three consecutive seasons.
The Denver Broncos have no chance at all.
Originally, in people's minds, even if the Denver Broncos couldn't really defeat the Kansas Chiefs, under the cover of the rising momentum of two consecutive victories, at least the Denver Broncos could create some threats for the Kansas Chiefs. Coupled with the stalemate of the divisional civil war, the outcome was suspense. It might last a while.
However, no.
From the first minute of the game, the Kansas Chiefs' tactics were clear. They used Mahomes' long pass as a bait to set up a trap, but opened the situation through ground attack. Levi and Damien took turns to suppress it. Opponents, quickly establish an active advantage.
After Levi scored his first touchdown, the Denver Broncos were never able to find their rhythm again and fell into disarray.
(End of chapter)