Favre Throws Two TDs over Bly, Bailey to Beat Broncos in Overtime

In the end, all of the long drives the Packers (6-1) were failing to sustain didn’t matter much. Two long bombs over the heads of Broncos cornerbacks Dre Bly and Champ Bailey were enough to do the Broncos (3-4) in.

You’ve heard the maxim that football is a game of inches: it only takes a few big plays to determine the winner in the end. This was definitely the case on Monday Night. The two touchdown tosses, along with the goal line fumble by the Broncos cost them tonight’s victory. They failed to get pressure on Favre, failed to force the turnovers, and lost what has to be considered a sloppy football game by both teams.

Courtesy Associated Press:

DENVER (AP) — It was another signature moment in a career that is full of them.

On the first play following the kickoff in overtime, Brett Favre connected on an 82-yard touchdown pass with Greg Jennings and the Green Bay Packers defeated the Denver Broncos 19-13 on Monday night.

Denver had tied the score at 13 on Jason Elam’s 21-yard field goal as time ran out in regulation, setting the stage for another Favre comeback.

Green Bay (6-1) won the coin toss and on the first play, Jennings was matched up in man-to-man coverage on the left side. Favre, who threw a 79-yard touchdown pass to James Jones in the first half, hit Jennings in stride at the Denver 40. Cornerback Dre’ Bly had no shot at catching the speedy wide receiver who trotted into the end zone as Favre rushed to celebrate Green Bay’s first 6-1 start in five years.

The Broncos (3-4) sent it into overtime with a drive that began at their own 7 with 2:27 left.

Out of timeouts, the field goal unit scrambled onto the field and Elam calmly nailed the kick, just as he did two months ago when the Broncos ran the same fire drill to beat Buffalo as time expired in the opener.

The Packers won the flip and Favre found Jennings isolated along the left sideline just as Jones was in the first half, when he beat Champ Bailey for the score.

Denver almost had to share the spotlight with the Colorado Rockies, who were scheduled to play Game 5 of the World Series on Monday night at Coors Field before they were swept by the Boston Red Sox Sunday night.

Favre, who was criticized for a series of underthrown passes against Washington last week, made it a double-whammy.