While the eyes of the NFL are trained on Sunday’s Patriots-Steelers showdown, the once-toothless Jaguars are quietly emerging as a contender in the AFC
The NFL is focused this week on Sunday afternoon’s Steelers-Patriots matchup set for Heinz Field in Pittsburgh. The 11-2 Steelers versus the 10-3 Patriots, the winner likely earning home-field advantage throughout the AFC play-offs, where many think the two sides will inevitably meet again in the conference championship game. But amid the hype over Pittsburgh and New England, there is one team being completely overlooked, a team that in fact went through both the Steelers and Patriots to reach the Super Bowl two years ago: the Denver Broncos.
No, not the woeful 2017 Denver Broncos, a team that has hopelessly lost its way and is tied for the fifth-worst record in all of football. The 2015 Denver Broncos. The Super Bowl championship team that had the best defense in all of football, a defense that was so good it was able to paper over its suspect play at the quarterback position. That Broncos team may have been reincarnated in the form of the 2017 Jacksonville Jaguars.
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