Jay Cutler passed for 200 yards and two touchdowns as the Denver Broncos beat the Tennessee Titans in front of 76,590 fans at Invesco Field at Mile High on Monday.
"The line did a great job," said Cutler, who completed 16-of-21 pass attempts.
Glenn Martinez returns a punt for a TD in Monday's 34-20 Broncos win.
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"We ran the ball well. I barely got touched.
"All around, the guys did a great job. It has been a long season — up and down — a little panic in Denver.
"But we pulled it together. That is two big wins the last two weeks."
Brandon Stokley snared three passes for 75 yards and a touchdown for the Broncos (5-5), whose four touchdowns in excess of 40 yards were a franchise first.
Stokley hauled in a 48-yard TD reception from Cutler, Brandon Marshall had a 41-yard TD catch, Glenn Martinez returned a punt 80 yards for a touchdown, and Andre Hall capped things off with a 62-yard TD run.
"We were overdue," Marshall said. "Our offence, we finally exploded."
Vince Young completed 26-of-41 passes for 305 yards with a touchdown and two interceptions for the Titans (6-4), now riding a two-game losing streak.
Young not only set a career high in passing yardage for the second consecutive week, but scrambled for an additional 74 yards and a touchdown.
Rob Bironas kicked two field goals, but running back LenDale White was limited to 42 rushing yards on 13 carries.
"It all came down to missed tackles," Titans head coach Jeff Fisher said. "We had missed tackles on the long touchdown run and missed tackles on the long touchdown pass play - that is the problem with missed tackles."
"The worst tackling game yet," muttered Titans cornerback Cortland Finnegan.
Stokely strikes for Broncos
Denver took a 7-0 lead on its opening possession as Cutler capped a six-play, 80-yard drive by rolling right to find Stokley, who sped 48 yards to the end zone with 5:13 left in the first quarter.
The Broncos went ahead 14-0 less than two minutes later on Martinez's punt return for a touchdown.
"It was a low line-drive punt and I had a lot of space in front of me," he said. "The guys blocked well, gave me a crease and that is all I need."
Tennessee replied with a nine-play, 65-yard march that resulted in Young passing 21 yards to Jones for a touchdown at 1:45 of the second quarter.
After Jason Elam booted field goals from 21 and 39 yards to make it 20-7 with 1:51 left to intermission, Bironas sliced it to 10 points with a 56-yarder with nine seconds remaining.
Cutler began the second half by engineering a nine-play, 81-yard drive, capped by Marshall's 41-yard TD reception at the 3:58 mark of the third quarter.
Three plays later, Young scored a touchdown on a sweep and Bironas later hit a 37-yard field goal to cut the deficit to 27-20 early in the fourth quarter.
However, Hall completed the scoring with a 62-yard TD run to seal the victory for the Broncos.
"I saw the hole and that is about it," Hall said. "That is all I needed to see."
Hall was substituting for Selvin Young, who started in place of injured Travis Henry but suffered a knee injury.
"He was our last tailback and Andre took advantage of his opportunity," Shanahan said. "We needed a big play at that time.
"That is one thing about the running game. You keep pounding and, every once in a while, you break one of those."
With files from the Associated PressRelated
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