There’s going to be plenty to talk about this week, starting with Gary Kubiak‘s decision to attempt a game-winning 62-yard field goal in overtime and continuing onto the breakout performance from Trevor Siemian, but the Broncos would have never even sniffed overtime if it hadn’t been for Von Miller.

Miller has made his money as a pass rusher — and he’s made a lot of it — but on Sunday he showed just why he’s the best defensive player in the NFL, affecting the game on nearly every level.

Of course, it started with the pass rush, but before long Miller was thwarting the game in other ways: by covering pass catchers in the secondary.

As always, though, when it mattered most, Miller was exactly where he needed to be: on top of the quarterback.

With three sacks on the night (10 tackles, four tackles for loss, a pass deflection and four quarterback hits, too), Miller brought his total to 12.5 on the year, most in the NFL. Not  only that, but he put himself in some elite company.

He was a constant force all night, and while there will be plenty of questions surrounding the Denver Broncos moving forward, the one thing nobody can deny is that Von Miller is great, historically great.

If this team is going to rebound and make the playoffs, it’ll be because he has more night’s like this one.

In the Broncos’ final five games, they’ll face off against two top-five picks in Blake Bortles and Marcus Mariota before taking on a murderers’ row of Tom Brady, Alex Smith and Derek Carr.

It won’t be an easy task, but it wasn’t an easy task when Miller and the Broncos defense downed Ben Roethlisberger, Brady and Cam Newton en route to a Super Bowl championship, either.

If there’s anyone up for the task, it’s Von Miller.