For sports news sites such as this one it’s common to follow a sporting event, say the Denver Broncos and Kansas City Chiefs on Thursday Night Football, and offer up a set number of “takeaways” – observations on the game from an expert panel. That number, usually, is set somewhere around five. It’s a nice clean number that fans can digest.

Well, Denver and Kansas City provided five HUGE takeaways and each of them belonged to the Broncos defense.

On the night, Denver forced five turnovers, none more important that the game-clinching strip and fumble recovery for a touchdown in the waning seconds of the fourth quarter.

But if there was one overriding “takeaway” from this game, it was that Denver’s defense is shaping up to be one of the most-aggressive and game-changing defenses the AFC has seen in quite some time.

Throughout the night, the team at Mile High Sports and members of the greater Denver media were in awe of the spectacular play of Wade Phillips’ defense. We gathered some of the best of the bunch for you here…