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It’s going to be hard to win games when the increasingly shorthanded Colorado Avalanche play well at the start of this season. It is impossible when the Avs play the way they did Monday night. Two losses to open the 2024-25 campaign could mostly be explained away by a pair of rough goaltending performances.

Watching the Broncos without Tim Patrick is a little like watching Captain America fight bad guys without his shield. Oh, sure, Cap moves quicker. His payload’s lighter. But what happens once the bullets start flying? “I feel like (Patrick has) gotten better and better,” Lions coach Dan Campbell told reporters in Detroit recently when asked about the former Broncos wideout, an end-of-preseason Denver cut the Motor City Kitties quickly snapped up.

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Tory Horton has played his final game for the Colorado State football program. The senior wide receiver will undergo season-ending surgery for an injury suffered during the Rams’ 31-24 victory over San Jose State last Saturday at Canvas Stadium, head coach Jay Norvell announced on Monday night. Norvell did not specify what the operation was in the announcement, but Horton had gone down with a knee injury in the first half against SJSU.

The depth that Colorado has in its receiver room has never been questioned. This week, however, it could be tested. During Saturday’s 31-28 loss to No. 18 Kansas State, the Buffaloes had four receivers go down with injuries, leaving quarterback Shedeur Sanders to shake his head in disbelief. “That’s just ridiculous,” he said. It appears the Buffs (4-2, 2-1 Big 12) won’t have sophomore Omarion Miller for the foreseeable future, as he left the game on a wheelchair after what looked like a devastating leg injury. The status of the other three — including Heisman Trophy candidate Travis Hunter — going forward hasn’t been disclosed.

Bo Nix took a moment to appreciate the Broncos’ all-Oregon touchdown in the fourth quarter Sunday against the Chargers. A trio of college teammates handled the football’s chain of custody, with Alex Forsyth snapping it to Nix. who then threw it to Troy Franklin for Franklin’s first career touchdown. But a different comment Nix made about the play after Denver’s 23-16 loss to Los Angeles is much more interesting and more indicative of the direction this offense needs to go in the coming weeks. “He ran a great route.