While the Denver Broncos and Los Angeles Chargers have gone in different directions over the past month, their destination at the end of the season (at least heading into Week 16) appears to be the same: the AFC playoff round. With a win Thursday night, the Broncos — winners of four straight — can make that official, while the Chargers — losers of three of their last four — can keep some distance between the bottom of the AFC wild-card picture and the teams on the list. outside looking in.
LA limped into the Thursday Night Football Week 16 opener after a 40-17 home loss to the surging Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Erasing that as quickly as possible could be a good opportunity for the Chargers, who enter the week two games ahead of the Colts, Dolphins and Bengals for that final wild-card spot. Denver — which defeated the Colts last week in Bo Nix’s three-touchdown pass, three-interception performance — found a way to run its win streak at four and would like to carry that momentum into a season-ending mini-bye with a play -off berth in hand with two games to go.
In Week 6, the Chargers won the teams’ first game in Denver 23–16. Justin Herbert threw for 237 yards and a touchdown pass in that win.
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Time: 8:15 PM ET
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Location: SoFi Stadium | Inglewood, California.
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Streaming: Amazon Prime Video
