bpc
09-28-2008, 09:57 PM
Christ, I usually make it out to one road game per year and i've been trying to hit every stadium in the NFL. THIS was the year that I was planning on marching through Arrowhead and watching Denver beat down the chiefs. I should have known better. The last two times I attempted this over the previous three seasons, Denver was the one taking the whoopin.
3 years ago I flew out to St. Louis for the NFL opening weekend which turned out to be Jake Plummer's final season. He looked like crap and we looked flat, underperformed and really just got our ass kicked. It sucked.
Fast forward to last year... I was thinking that Denver playing at Oakland would be an easy target considering they were almost already on the clock. Instead our OL crapped their pants and Jay was getting pummelled by his third step dropping back from center. Another underwhelming, heart lacking performance.
Now to this year, I end up having a college friend's wedding on Saturday in St. Louis and it just happened to be the same weekend Denver was playing at KC... after last season's beat down led by Cutler and watching the Raiders come in with no passing game what so ever and shred up the chiefs, I was figuring this would be a landslide victory. Once again my confidence and loyalty ended up costed me $150 in tickets, 7 hours of commute time and sitting out in the sun and watching our team suck ass and trail the Chiefs most of the day acting disinterested.
Can a fan really be bad luck? Have an affect on the outcome of the game?? I assume not but every time I show, this team falls flat on its ass.
(BTW, my first Bronco game I ever attended was the Colts/Broncos playoff game in 04'. I don't remember the score, the only thing I really recall is Marvin Harrison catching a pass, not getting tagged down, getting up and running for a TD... you all remember.)
So i'll end my post with a few rants/thoughts that I had about the game.
- It was hot as hell. The Broncos looked like they wanted no part of being out on that field and I could sense it from the beginning.
- I know Jay can throw the ball but we are getting into a dangerous rhythem. We have to find ways to establish the run game. The play action pass has always helped keep defense honest against Jay's arm. He looked semi-exposed as a poor reader of defenses. He kept throwing right into double coverage time and again while players are running around wide open in other areas. We had so much success throwing on the sidelines against Oakland and SD and it seems like against NO and KC we have regressed. We've been leaving a lot of passes hanging in the air in the middle of the field. That's the easiest place to kill drives especially if the QB is locked on to one player. Back to establishing the run... I hope Torrain can come in and suck up the full time role vs. 4 different backs coming in all the time. If not, HB becomes a very big issue in the future.
- Props to the chiefs. Yes, they will suck this year. No, they probably won't beat us in Mile High. They are however setting up a stacked interior defense that gave our offensive line fits. We couldn't move Tank, Dorsey or anybody else off the line. That is what teams have to do. You build from the trenches on back. This is a most concerning situation because I think a lot of fans would have said we need a DT most of all this year. After watching some of the projected high round players throughout the college season so far, I don't see any help coming in the form of the draft at least this year. Just my oppinion. Unless we fix the problem up front with the DT's, we're going to continue to get our brains bashed in my the run.
*That being said I do like Thomas and Peterson. We need more though. Roberson is already on the injured list. Imagine that. *
- I love Royal and BMarsh. I don't see Stokely as a great WR or even good WR anymore. He's really losing his speed and quicks and I doubt he has more than one more truly productive season left in him. Daryl Jackson's calf injury is alarming. We are light at WR which is forcing Cutler to lock on to WR's.
- I don't know what it is about Tony Scheffler but he seems to be one of the most mentally weak players on this roster. He has a great pair of hands but I don't think he really breaks himself off to help as a blocker or works to try and truly be great. Where the hell was he in the second half? He had a few drops and looks like he didn't play again. He was sitting the bench in preseason behind Jackson and Graham. I'm wondering if he's entering Shanahan's dog house.
- OL was solid again today but i'm starting to see some inexperience come out from Ryan Harris. He's had plenty of minus's over the past two weeks. I think he allowed some big heat on Jay's 1st interception or somewhere around that play and he's the one that gave up the safety last week on the inside run play. Toughen up son.
- It actually sickens me every time I think about how we overpaid for Jarvis Moss. I hope he comes around, I don't see it happening though. And if it does, WHO CARES. He's a one dimentional player. A Trent Cole but not as good. I think our draft two seasons ago has been very iffy especially in the 1st two rounds. Overpaying for role players. We don't need anymore spare parts, we need playmakers.
- Speaking of playmakers, I love watching Woodyard and Larsen on special teams duty. Those two play balls to the wall. I wish we could get them on the field sooner. Shanny, ditch Larsen playing FB. He'll be more than good enough at LB. He'll probably step in and immediately become one of our best blitzers.
- I hate our defense. I think the base concept is utterly stupid. I hate zone defenses in the general. I would rather man it up and play bump and run coverage. More than anything else, I hate seeing Champ Bailey covering the opposing team's #2 WR all day. Being positioned to one side is limiting and stupid. How many 1st down grabs did Bowe have? Isn't Bowe the biggest playmaker in the chiefs WR core? Why have a shut down corner if you run a cheap zone scheme and make it so easy for an offense to take him out of the play?
- We have so far to go talent wise. These areas need improvement the worst though:
1. DT - We are severely lacking here. Unfortunately the draft probably won't bring any immediate help.
2. WR - Stokely/DJack don't have much left. BMarsh is one incident away from being suspended half the season or longer. We need to keep filling the cabinet with talent a la what Green Bay has done with their WR position.
3. S - Horrible unit for us. I can't stand watching them play.
4. HB - We need Torain to take this position off the list for us.
5. TE - I have a feeling that Scheffler is not getting it done all the way around. Too soft. Just a gut feeling.
Bottom line... if you thought the game sucked today, at least you had commercials, AC, and the ability to flip it to another channel. It's hard to watch three units which showed so little heart.
3 years ago I flew out to St. Louis for the NFL opening weekend which turned out to be Jake Plummer's final season. He looked like crap and we looked flat, underperformed and really just got our ass kicked. It sucked.
Fast forward to last year... I was thinking that Denver playing at Oakland would be an easy target considering they were almost already on the clock. Instead our OL crapped their pants and Jay was getting pummelled by his third step dropping back from center. Another underwhelming, heart lacking performance.
Now to this year, I end up having a college friend's wedding on Saturday in St. Louis and it just happened to be the same weekend Denver was playing at KC... after last season's beat down led by Cutler and watching the Raiders come in with no passing game what so ever and shred up the chiefs, I was figuring this would be a landslide victory. Once again my confidence and loyalty ended up costed me $150 in tickets, 7 hours of commute time and sitting out in the sun and watching our team suck ass and trail the Chiefs most of the day acting disinterested.
Can a fan really be bad luck? Have an affect on the outcome of the game?? I assume not but every time I show, this team falls flat on its ass.
(BTW, my first Bronco game I ever attended was the Colts/Broncos playoff game in 04'. I don't remember the score, the only thing I really recall is Marvin Harrison catching a pass, not getting tagged down, getting up and running for a TD... you all remember.)
So i'll end my post with a few rants/thoughts that I had about the game.
- It was hot as hell. The Broncos looked like they wanted no part of being out on that field and I could sense it from the beginning.
- I know Jay can throw the ball but we are getting into a dangerous rhythem. We have to find ways to establish the run game. The play action pass has always helped keep defense honest against Jay's arm. He looked semi-exposed as a poor reader of defenses. He kept throwing right into double coverage time and again while players are running around wide open in other areas. We had so much success throwing on the sidelines against Oakland and SD and it seems like against NO and KC we have regressed. We've been leaving a lot of passes hanging in the air in the middle of the field. That's the easiest place to kill drives especially if the QB is locked on to one player. Back to establishing the run... I hope Torrain can come in and suck up the full time role vs. 4 different backs coming in all the time. If not, HB becomes a very big issue in the future.
- Props to the chiefs. Yes, they will suck this year. No, they probably won't beat us in Mile High. They are however setting up a stacked interior defense that gave our offensive line fits. We couldn't move Tank, Dorsey or anybody else off the line. That is what teams have to do. You build from the trenches on back. This is a most concerning situation because I think a lot of fans would have said we need a DT most of all this year. After watching some of the projected high round players throughout the college season so far, I don't see any help coming in the form of the draft at least this year. Just my oppinion. Unless we fix the problem up front with the DT's, we're going to continue to get our brains bashed in my the run.
*That being said I do like Thomas and Peterson. We need more though. Roberson is already on the injured list. Imagine that. *
- I love Royal and BMarsh. I don't see Stokely as a great WR or even good WR anymore. He's really losing his speed and quicks and I doubt he has more than one more truly productive season left in him. Daryl Jackson's calf injury is alarming. We are light at WR which is forcing Cutler to lock on to WR's.
- I don't know what it is about Tony Scheffler but he seems to be one of the most mentally weak players on this roster. He has a great pair of hands but I don't think he really breaks himself off to help as a blocker or works to try and truly be great. Where the hell was he in the second half? He had a few drops and looks like he didn't play again. He was sitting the bench in preseason behind Jackson and Graham. I'm wondering if he's entering Shanahan's dog house.
- OL was solid again today but i'm starting to see some inexperience come out from Ryan Harris. He's had plenty of minus's over the past two weeks. I think he allowed some big heat on Jay's 1st interception or somewhere around that play and he's the one that gave up the safety last week on the inside run play. Toughen up son.
- It actually sickens me every time I think about how we overpaid for Jarvis Moss. I hope he comes around, I don't see it happening though. And if it does, WHO CARES. He's a one dimentional player. A Trent Cole but not as good. I think our draft two seasons ago has been very iffy especially in the 1st two rounds. Overpaying for role players. We don't need anymore spare parts, we need playmakers.
- Speaking of playmakers, I love watching Woodyard and Larsen on special teams duty. Those two play balls to the wall. I wish we could get them on the field sooner. Shanny, ditch Larsen playing FB. He'll be more than good enough at LB. He'll probably step in and immediately become one of our best blitzers.
- I hate our defense. I think the base concept is utterly stupid. I hate zone defenses in the general. I would rather man it up and play bump and run coverage. More than anything else, I hate seeing Champ Bailey covering the opposing team's #2 WR all day. Being positioned to one side is limiting and stupid. How many 1st down grabs did Bowe have? Isn't Bowe the biggest playmaker in the chiefs WR core? Why have a shut down corner if you run a cheap zone scheme and make it so easy for an offense to take him out of the play?
- We have so far to go talent wise. These areas need improvement the worst though:
1. DT - We are severely lacking here. Unfortunately the draft probably won't bring any immediate help.
2. WR - Stokely/DJack don't have much left. BMarsh is one incident away from being suspended half the season or longer. We need to keep filling the cabinet with talent a la what Green Bay has done with their WR position.
3. S - Horrible unit for us. I can't stand watching them play.
4. HB - We need Torain to take this position off the list for us.
5. TE - I have a feeling that Scheffler is not getting it done all the way around. Too soft. Just a gut feeling.
Bottom line... if you thought the game sucked today, at least you had commercials, AC, and the ability to flip it to another channel. It's hard to watch three units which showed so little heart.