While reporters tried to focus on the silver lining, was still hacked off about the cloud.
About your first two-touchdown game …
A pause.
“It doesn’t matter,” the second-year Broncos wide receiver said as he stood in front of his locker after Denver’s 26-24 loss to Jacksonville on Sunday. “We lost.”
Any positives that you CAN take?
Another pause.
“We lost.”
And to think: Until Minshew Mania decided to reach in and rip the heart out of the reported 71,954 fans inside Empower Field at Mile High, Sutton and quarterback looked as if they’d be the afternoon’s heroes.
With the Broncos trailing 23-17 with 2:54 left, Flacco hooked up with the 6-foot-4, 216-pound wideout twice during a six-play, 75-yard drive that put the hosts back in front. Briefly.
On first-and-10 from the Denver 41, the veteran hit Sutton for a 27-yard gain to the Jaguars’ 32-yard line.
Three plays later, Flacco spotted the young receiver on a post-corner route and fired a rope for an 8-yard touchdown with 1:32 left, knotting the game at 23-23 before the extra point.
“I feel like we do a really good job of coming in in the face of adversity and moving the ball and doing the things that we’re supposed to do to make sure we’re doing our part (for) the team,” said Sutton, who finished with six catches and 62 yards on nine targets. “And unfortunately, at the end of the game, we fell a little short.”
They also left, in hindsight, too much time for Jags quarterback Gardner Minshew. The mustachioed rookie marched Jacksonville 60 yards the other way over the game’s final 92 seconds to set up the game-winning 33-yard field goal.
“I don’t know what was the thing that caused us to lose the momentum,” said Sutton, who recorded his first multi-touchdown game after collecting four touchdown receptions all of last season.
“When you’re 0-4, you’ve got to re-evaluate everybody as an individual. For the team, (we have) to re-evaluate how we go about getting ready for the games, and going into the game, and things. And eventually, it’ll happen. It’ll kick.
“And this is going to be a really big week for us as a team, to really see everybody lock in and stay together as a team, as a unit. Because thatap the only way we’re going to be able to be successful and win games.”
