Andrew Luck runs for a first down in the Colts’ win over the Broncos. (AAron Ontiveroz, The Denver Post)
Another week, another elite quarterback, another set of complaints.
The Broncos’ defense, which leads the league in total defense (284.7 yards per game) and sacks (41), has heard them from most of the quarterbacks they’ve faced this season, according to cornerback Chris Harris.
In Week 12 it was Tom Brady, who expressed his frustration with the officiating in the Patriots’ overtime loss in Denver.
“I just think the circumstances of the game, the circumstances of the situation that we were in with winning by (14 points), having a good lead there in the fourth quarter, having a couple of third downs called back — huge third downs that we made — called back by penalty, losing a player like (Rob Gronkowski) in the fourth quarter, fighting back like we did to get to overtime,” Brady said last week while on . “Then I thought the first play of the overtime, the guy hooked (Brandon LaFell) and they didn’t call that. And then they got the ball and scored the touchdown.
“How it all played out, I guess I was just pretty pissed off, at obviously the final outcome, just how the last 20 minutes of the game played out.”
On Sunday, it was , who got into it with outside linebacker Von Miller after a hit in the fourth quarter.
“I don’t think he was happy with the cologne I was wearing,” Miller said jokingly after the game. “I was wearing a lot of it and I guess he wasn’t happy with it. I was on him a lot at the end of the game so everybody doesn’t like my smell.”
But Harris offered a more blunt assessment.
“He sounds like Brady and a lot of other quarterbacks that we’ve faced this year,” he said of Rivers on Monday. “The same way that they scream and yell at the officials after our guys hit them, it’s something that’s happened all year. The only guy that didn’t cry was Andrew Luck. He was like, ‘Great hit, great hit.'”
If you’ll recall, in the Colts’ Week 9 victory over the Broncos.
