1978 Denver Broncos season
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox NFL season The 1978 Denver Broncos season was the team's 19th year in professional football and its ninth with the National Football League (NFL). Led by second-year head coach Red Miller, the Broncos were 10–6, repeated as champions of the AFC West, and made the playoffs for the second straight season.
In the AFC divisional round, Denver lost on the road to the top-seeded Pittsburgh Steelers,[1][2] 33–10, whom they had lost to two weeks earlier in the regular season finale at Mile High Stadium;[3][4] Denver had clinched their division title six days earlier with a win over struggling Kansas City, while runners-up Oakland and Seattle both lost and fell to 8–7 with San Diego, two games back with one to play.[5]
The Broncos were fifteenth in the league in scoring offense, while the defense finished second in points allowed and sixth in yards allowed.[6]
Offseason
NFL draft
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Personnel
Staff
Roster
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Regular season
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Schedule
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| 1 | September 3 | Oakland Raiders | W 14–6 | 1–0 | Mile High Stadium | 75,092 | |
| 2 | September 11 | at Minnesota Vikings | L 9–12 (OT)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | 1–1 | Metropolitan Stadium | 46,508 | |
| 3 | September 17 | San Diego Chargers | W 27–14 | 2–1 | Mile High Stadium | 74,983 | |
| 4 | September 24 | at Kansas City Chiefs | W 23–17 (OT)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | 3–1 | Arrowhead Stadium | 60,593 | |
| 5 | October 1 | Seattle Seahawks | W 28–7 | 4–1 | Mile High Stadium | 74,989 | |
| 6 | October 8 | at San Diego Chargers | L 0–23 | 4–2 | San Diego Stadium | 50,077 | |
| 7 | October 16 | Chicago Bears | W 16–7 | 5–2 | Mile High Stadium | 75,008 | |
| 8 | October 22 | at Baltimore Colts | L 6–7 | 5–3 | Memorial Stadium | 54,057 | |
| 9 | October 29 | at Seattle Seahawks | W 20–17 (OT)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | 6–3 | Kingdome | 62,948 | |
| 10 | November 5 | New York Jets | L 28–31 | 6–4 | Mile High Stadium | 74,983 | |
| 11 | November 12 | at Cleveland Browns | W 19–7 | 7–4 | Cleveland Stadium | 70,856 | |
| 12 | November 19 | Green Bay Packers | W 16–3 | 8–4 | Mile High Stadium | 74,965 | |
| 13 | November 23 | at Detroit Lions | L 14–17 | 8–5 | Pontiac Silverdome | 71,785 | |
| 14 | December 3 | at Oakland Raiders | W 21–6 | 9–5 | Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum | 53,932 | |
| 15 | December 10 | Kansas City Chiefs | W 24–3 | 10–5 | Mile High Stadium | 74,149 | |
| 16 | December 16 | Pittsburgh Steelers | L 17–21 | 10–6 | Mile High Stadium | 74,104 | |
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- Monday night (September 11, October 16),[8][9] Thursday (November 23: Thanksgiving),[10] Saturday (December 16)[3][4]
- This was the first NFL regular season with 16 games.
Standings
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Playoffs
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| Divisional | December 30 | at Pittsburgh Steelers (1) | L 10–33 | 0–1 | Three Rivers Stadium | 48,921 |
References
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External links
- Denver Broncos – 1978 media guide
- 1978 Denver Broncos season at jt-sw.com
- 1978 Denver Broncos at Pro-Football-Reference.com
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