We're Tied For Second In The AFC West!! - The Orange Mane

TexanBob · 09-11-2005, 10:04 PM

...and just a game out of first too.

Okay, so the Broncos lost a game they had all penciled in as a W, ignoring signs of impending doom like a bunch of folks who stayed around through Hurricane Katrina. But all is not lost.

We just have to accept that we will never reach the Super Bowl with Jake Plummer as a quarterback. Some days he's just going to throw like Amanda Plummer instead. We all know that and he's never going to change. The WR corps is underwhelming. The fact Jerry Rice hung around in camp as long as he did tells you how bad our receivers are (except for Rod Smith who can't carry the load himself).

The defense still lacks big-play capability and no matter how many ex-Browns we bring in, that doesn't change.

It really looks no different than the teams that eked into the playoffs the past two years only to be undressed by Peyton Manning on national television. Were you expecting better?

Their draft this year looked like it was written as a comedy skit. The OL is one ACL away from being a jailbreak with no depth. And yet Shanny and company will still figure out a way to win eight or nine games because that's what Shanny does. And periodicially, he loses to the Bears. Or the Dolphins. Or some other team they have no business losing to.

Mayve they are just getting their annual egg-laying out of the way in Week 1. What matters is head-to-head in the division and nobody else in the division looks that much better than us. San Diego lost a home game. Oakland looked as tucked-up against the Patriots as they did the last time. KC's win was impressive and how 14 other teams decided they didn't need Derrick Johnson still blows me away. But get real. They're still the Chefs.

So study the films, fix the holes, lick the wounds and go back out there and make the Chargers 0-2. You'll feel a whole lot better then.

2KBack · 09-11-2005, 10:08 PM

I mostly agree.

I think the defense showed some big play ability, but the offense pissed it away. I would have sold a leg for 3 turnovers in our favor last year.

and this game imparticular made me happy we had the draft we did, we needed those rooks, and will continue to as long as champ is out.

I with you the rest of the way though

sirhcyennek81 · 09-11-2005, 10:10 PM

trying to recall the last time i saw pass interference on offense twice. ever. against anyone.

Arkie · 09-11-2005, 10:10 PM

We will beat KC on Monday night going 2-1 and grabbing the division lead.

sirhcyennek81 · 09-11-2005, 10:13 PM

Broncos were embarassed by a team that supposedly had nothing on offense. San Diego is in trouble.

ludo21 · 09-11-2005, 10:13 PM

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Originally Posted by sirhcyennek81

trying to recall the last time i saw pass interference on offense twice. ever. against anyone.

whats the masses think? Lelie interference?? or def interference?? i though they both looked like Defensive int to me, but i would like to know what otehres thought.

2KBack · 09-11-2005, 10:13 PM

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Originally Posted by sirhcyennek81

trying to recall the last time i saw pass interference on offense twice. ever. against anyone.

Th more I think about it, the more crazy the game becomes. Odd calls on Odd players, the magic wall at the 1 yard line, losing 3 players in 4 plays.

sirhcyennek81 · 09-11-2005, 10:17 PM

i am simply perpelexed as to why a ref would call pass interference on a cb, who gets run over, and horse collared, by the receiver. in reality, this is known as offensive pass interference. rewind to earlier in the game. ashley lelie runs past a cb, and gets flagged...for interference...no amount of beer is solving this obviously duplicitious dilemma...

Sassy · 09-11-2005, 11:05 PM

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Broncos were embarassed by a team that supposedly had nothing on offense. San Diego is in trouble.

I seriously think that too...I think they'll play like they are on fire...like we did in Indy that time after they killed us.

I hope they do and have the confidence when KC comes to town...I don't want to see them lose in person...of course, every game I've gone to with Hogan they've won

SoCalBronco · 09-11-2005, 11:16 PM

we actually have to win the next three at least. That means back down to Florida again in the heat against a more talented team than Miami in Jacksonville. We gotta get to 6-2 or higher at the halfway point because the December schedule is murderous. We already lopped our margin for error in half. It will be a very steep climb. And if KC goes 2-2 or better in their first four, it will be an extremely difficult trek to overtake them given the way their schedule is organized.

DomCasual · 09-11-2005, 11:40 PM

Reading some of the posts here, I am glad distance separates many of you. If you could get together, and someone would supply the means, there would be a mass suicide. Seriously, it's almost been shocking. It is the first game of the year, man! It means something, but it doesn't mean all that much, all things considered.

I have watched every game since the first Broncos' Super Bowl in '77. I can remember games where I felt a lot worse than I do now. A few examples:

Example #1: MANY games during the Wade Phillips era. The team would look completely uninspired, and I would think, "How could they suck this bad?" But there was always the hope that they would pull it together the next week. And you know what? They didn't. They sucked all year.

Example #2: MNF in San Francisco - the Romanowski spitting incident. Broncos lose, 34-17, and they look completely uninspired in the process. And it was a game they really needed, if they wanted to stay in the race for the division. The loss meant they were going to have to win games on the road in the playoffs, and they had never been a very good road team - let alone road playoff team. Net result: the next game they lost was at the Giants, almost a year later.

One game does not a season make. They still had a realistic chance of winning this one into the fourth quarter. You knew it was going to snowball at some point - just a combination of the injuries, the weather, Jake getting desperate, etc.

But as bad as we feel, there are folks in Minnesota (where many have put the Vikings in the Super Bowl), Carolina (same), San Diego, Phoenix, Baltimore, and St. Louis that feel just as bad. Those are some good teams, and I will guarantee that some will end up going deep into the playoffs. They all lost games they were supposed to have won (or had a real shot at winning).

Get over it. I will jump off your cliff if we lose the next two.

ClevelandBronco2 · 09-11-2005, 11:45 PM

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whats the masses think? Lelie interference?? or def interference?? i though they both looked like Defensive int to me, but i would like to know what otehres thought.

Lelie. I wouldn't have called it at all, but if it had to be called it was Lelie.

watermock · 09-11-2005, 11:49 PM

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Reading some of the posts here, I am glad distance separates many of you. If you could get together, and someone would supply the means, there would be a mass suicide. Seriously, it's almost been shocking. It is the first game of the year, man! It means something, but it doesn't mean all that much, all things considered.

I have watched every game since the first Broncos' Super Bowl in '77. I can remember games where I felt a lot worse than I do now. A few examples:

Example #1: MANY games during the Wade Phillips era. The team would look completely uninspired, and I would think, "How could they suck this bad?" But there was always the hope that they would pull it together the next week. And you know what? They didn't. They sucked all year.

why do you think he was fired? The fact is Wade looked totally clueless at times, just about like Shanahan did yesterday.

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Example #2: MNF in San Francisco - the Romanowski spitting incident. Broncos lose, 34-17, and they look completely uninspired in the process. And it was a game they really needed, if they wanted to stay in the race for the division. The loss meant they were going to have to win games on the road in the playoffs, and they had never been a very good road team - let alone road playoff team. Net result: the next game they lost was at the Giants, almost a year later.

Your talking about something a decade ago. When did Romo play for the Niners again? Talk about something totally and utterly irrelevant. Romo went from SF, to Denver to Oakland. So did Shanahan basically.

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One game does not a season make. They still had a realistic chance of winning this one into the fourth quarter. You knew it was going to snowball at some point - just a combination of the injuries, the weather, Jake getting desperate, etc.

That's a joke. the team gave up midway thru the 3rd quarter.

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But as bad as we feel, there are folks in Minnesota (where many have put the Vikings in the Super Bowl), Carolina (same), San Diego, Phoenix, Baltimore, and St. Louis that feel just as bad. Those are some good teams, and I will guarantee that some will end up going deep into the playoffs. They all lost games they were supposed to have won (or had a real shot at winning).

Cullpepper turned the ball over 4 times and they still had the ball first and goal at the 10 with 1:50 to play. Cullpepper overthrew Mo Williams and threw his 5th turnover. It's rather hard to overcome 5 turnovers.

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Get over it. I will jump off your cliff if we lose the next two.

Go ahead. It's not my cliff. You just built it.

DomCasual · 09-11-2005, 11:58 PM

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