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Von Miller: 'I killed the game today' with penalty
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- Von Miller has had plenty of days when he's helped lift the Denver Broncos to a win, but Sunday he quickly took the Broncos' rather homely 26-16 loss to the Buffalo Bills and put it squarely on his own shoulders.
Miller's unsportsmanlike conduct penalty kept a fourth-quarter Bills' drive going -- the Broncos would have forced a punt without the penalty -- and 10 plays later the Bills kicked a field goal that made their seven-point lead a 10-point lead with just over three minutes remaining in the game.
"I can't put my team in situations like that,'' Miller said. "... I've got to be smarter than that. I'm always on the rookies and the young guys about being smart, doing this, doing that. And in a crucial situation in the game -- I've just got to be better than that ... I killed the game today with that play. I've just got to be better than that.''
Taylor's throw fell incomplete and the Broncos appeared to have forced a punt in what was still going to be a one-possession game.
Miller, who said he and Taylor had been "laughing and joking" all game, then offered Taylor his hand to help him before he quickly pulled it away. As soon as the linebacker pulled his hand away, referee Carl Cheffers threw the flag.
"I didn't see it, but how [the officials] explained it to me, I guess Von gave him a hand to help the guy up and he moved the hand away,'' said Broncos coach Vance Joseph. "He called it, so I guess that's what he thought it was. It's pro football, but he called it.''
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- Von Miller has had plenty of days when he's helped lift the Denver Broncos to a win, but Sunday he quickly took the Broncos' rather homely 26-16 loss to the Buffalo Bills and put it squarely on his own shoulders.
Miller's unsportsmanlike conduct penalty kept a fourth-quarter Bills' drive going -- the Broncos would have forced a punt without the penalty -- and 10 plays later the Bills kicked a field goal that made their seven-point lead a 10-point lead with just over three minutes remaining in the game.
"I can't put my team in situations like that,'' Miller said. "... I've got to be smarter than that. I'm always on the rookies and the young guys about being smart, doing this, doing that. And in a crucial situation in the game -- I've just got to be better than that ... I killed the game today with that play. I've just got to be better than that.''
Taylor's throw fell incomplete and the Broncos appeared to have forced a punt in what was still going to be a one-possession game.
Miller, who said he and Taylor had been "laughing and joking" all game, then offered Taylor his hand to help him before he quickly pulled it away. As soon as the linebacker pulled his hand away, referee Carl Cheffers threw the flag.
"I didn't see it, but how [the officials] explained it to me, I guess Von gave him a hand to help the guy up and he moved the hand away,'' said Broncos coach Vance Joseph. "He called it, so I guess that's what he thought it was. It's pro football, but he called it.''