The Broncos suffered San Diego State Aztecs Jersey a demoralizing lo s to the Chargers on "Monday Night Football," thanks in part to a historically bad penalty night for Denver.The Broncos had 10 penalties in the lo s for a combined 151 yards. And while the lo s can't be pinned on any single player not while the offense put up a mere 258 yards one standout in the comedy of errors was backup corner Damarri Mathis.The rookie defensive back, filling in for the injured Ronald Darby, committed four of the Broncos' 10 penalties. In all, they amounted to 87 yards: well over half the penalty yardage surrendered by his team. What's worse, three of his four penalties kept Chargers scoring drives alive.MORE:Indeed, Mathis got off on Noah Locke Jersey the wrong foot. He was called for a 30-yard pa s interference penalty while defending Josh Palmer on the first play from scrimmage. Though it ultimately did not result in a Chargers score, it was the last time in the game that would be the case.Following that, Mathis committed two third-down pa s interferences on the Chargers' fourth drive of the game. The first went for 36 yards, allowing the Chargers to convert third-and-13; the second went for 11 yards on third-and-2. Those penalties ultimately helped Los Angeles kick a 37-yard field goal to tie the game at 10-10 before the half. Troy Polamalu Jersey Mathis' last penalty went for 10 yards on third-and-8, again resulting in a Chargers field goal in their penultimate drive of regulation to tie the game 16-16. The rookie later made up for it to an extent on a fourth-and-1 play that resulted in a turnover on downs:What a play by Damarri Mathis on 4th down! : on ESPN: Stream on NFL+ charlot socobos (@SocobosCharlot) That said, Mathis' four penalties directly resulted in six Chargers points that helped send the game to overtime.For his struggles on the field, Mathis became tied for the fifth-most-penalized player in a single game dating back to at least the 2000 season:Most penalty yards vs 1 player in a game since 2000:Tramon Williams 106 vs Ravens 12/7/2009Darren Perry 99 vs Bears 10/8/2000Anthony Brown 91 vs 11/25/2021Phillip Gaines 90 vs Bears 11/4/2018Damarri Mathis 87 vs Chargers tonightKeenan Lewis 87 vs Giants 11/4/2012 Josh Dubow (@JoshDubowAP) MORE: The remainder of the team committed six penalties for a combined 64 yards. Their 151 penalty yards were the second-most in franchise history, and the most Brian Burns Jersey since 1976:Most penalty yards in a single Martavis Bryant Jersey game for the Denver Broncos:Nov. 7th, 1976: 160 yards vs. Tampa (W 48-13)Tonight vs. LAC: 151 yardsOct. 14th, 2001: 148 yards vs. Seattle (L 34-21) Pro Football Reference (@pfref) Broncos coach Nathaniel Hackett had this to say about his teams' penalty struggles on Monday:"I'm gonna have to go back and look at those and see where they came from, how they happened and how we can hopefully prevent more of those," Hackett said. "We've been harping on those quite a bit."We've gotta play cleaner football acro s the board."
