SD has been a good team this year... but thin at CB and played full 60-min divisional games the last 2 weeks while Denver coasted/rested a bit Sunday. Denver has had the bye and SD hasn't.... add that to a short/travel week for SD, and the fact that Denver did lose at home on a Thursday to Denver last year will be a motivator. I DONT see any letdown from the Manning TD record....
seems most folks assume SD is the "sharp" side cuz it is a lot of points for a divisional game and "the public overrates Denver" and Rivers has been good enough that he's a backdoor risk.... but I think the passrush gets to Rivers and Manning carves up the D and it gets just out of hand enough to lock the back door. 31-20 Denver.