My Hat's Off to the Linebackers Today

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Outstanding effort today. Kansas City ran a lot of two and three tight end sets and Gonzo and Dunn combined for three receptions for 14 yards.

Ian Gold was excellent all day and he came up huge on the Chiefs final drive of the game. I hope the Broncos submit his name for Defensive Player of the Week. He didn't have any sacks or interceptions, but he was in on 11 tackles and his coverage was stellar.

I hope he continues to make me eat my words all year.

[Spider]

The Smurf on Roids was a force ......... Kinda glad we got him back on the Broncos ...... he got game

[Bronco_Beerslug]

Originally Posted by -Slap-

Outstanding effort today. Kansas City ran a lot of two and three tight end sets and Gonzo and Dunn combined for three receptions for 14 yards.

Ian Gold was excellent all day and he came up huge on the Chiefs final drive of the game. I hope the Broncos submit his name for Defensive Player of the Week. He didn't have any sacks or interceptions, but he was in on 11 tackles and his coverage was stellar.

I hope he continues to make me eat my words all year.

Yep, and Bailey and Lynch played well too. On the offensive side Walker and Kircus both played well too.

[freak6]

Bailey played well for sure. I wish teams would throw at him more. Give us a chance to score a TD lol.

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Originally Posted by Bronco_Beerslug

Yep, and Bailey and Lynch played well too. On the offensive side Walker and Kircus both played well too.

Kircus is Klutch. That guy needs more reps.

[epicSocialism4tw]

Ian Gold won the game for the Broncos. He did it a few times for us last season as well. He's been the best player on the field in the first two games for Denver this season.

He's three times the player that DJ Williams is right now, that's for sure.

[Killericon]

Al Wilson was practically invisible...

[listopencil]

Yep, from what I saw Gold was outstanding today.

[Orange_Beard]

Gold controlled the final drive. He was flatout all-pro today and all season so far. The play when he ran Johnson down was unreal. Then the great coverage on 88 on third down was stellar.
GAME BALL.

Was Nate Webster dressed today? I thought I saw him standind behind Shanny.

Guess he watched UM whup ND yesterday.

[Rascal]

Originally Posted by -Slap-

Outstanding effort today. Kansas City ran a lot of two and three tight end sets and Gonzo and Dunn combined for three receptions for 14 yards.

Ian Gold was excellent all day and he came up huge on the Chiefs final drive of the game. I hope the Broncos submit his name for Defensive Player of the Week. He didn't have any sacks or interceptions, but he was in on 11 tackles and his coverage was stellar.

I hope he continues to make me eat my words all year.

I'm saving this post.

IMO DJ and Wilson did not have a very good game in run support. But they all did well in coverage.

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Originally Posted by Orange_Beard

Gold controlled the final drive. He was flatout all-pro today and all season so far. The play when he ran Johnson down was unreal. Then the great coverage on 88 on third down was stellar.
GAME BALL.

Was Nate Webster dressed today? I thought I saw him standind behind Shanny.

Guess he watched UM whup ND yesterday.

Webster was inactive again.

[Kaylore]

Wow Slap. Nice call. Gold had another solid game. Personally I thought there were more than a few plays that the tackling was sloppy.

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Originally Posted by Kaylore

Wow Slap. Nice call. Gold had another solid game. Personally I thought there were more than a few plays that the tackling was sloppy.

What impressed me was that Kansas City was able to exploit them in the flats in the first half a little bit. We went in and made adjustments and completely took that away in the second half. That's why Huard was 11 for 12 to start the game and then just 6 for 11 the rest of the way.

There have been games in the past where our LBs get exploited all day long with dumpoffs and screens and that didn't happen today.

[Broncos4Life]

Originally Posted by -Slap-

What impressed me was that Kansas City was able to exploit them in the flats in the first half a little bit. We went in and made adjustments and completely took that away in the second half. That's why Huard was 11 for 12 to start the game and then just 6 for 11 the rest of the way.

There have been games in the past where our LBs get exploited all day long with dumpoffs and screens and that didn't happen today.

word...
Thoswe guys completely stepped it up and took control. Now if we can only get some turnovers.

[Atlas]

Champ played very well too. That guy is a very good run defender.

[UKBronco]

A couple of ni-ggling things i've noticed with one of my favourite players - DJ Williams has been stiff-armed with relative ease now by both LJ and SJ in successive weeks. I know they are both big backs, but DJ is a big linebacker and has got to make the tackles and be more physical. He's over-run a couple of plays too, especially one I remember against the Rams.

I hope its not a sign of a slip in playing standards but i hope he gets ripped in video sessions this week and comes out like a beast next week.

Edit: Apparently n-i-g-g-l-i-n-g is a dirty word!

[BroncoBuff]

Originally Posted by -Slap-

Ian Gold was excellent all day and he came up huge on the Chiefs final drive of the game. I hope the Broncos submit his name for Defensive Player of the Week.

Agree completely. Reminded me of the old Ian Gold. But he still scares me with the peaks and valleys .... last year he batted down Brunell's pass to beat the Redskins ... but then let Shockey run all over him on the decisive drive in the Meadowlands.

Kenard Lang was quiet ... didn't Turley moved to left OT when Loaf quit? So who was blocking Lang?

Anybody see Nick Ferguson look like a girl letting Quitterson drag him 10 yards up the field?! Quitterson! ... maybe Gold should drop a couple pounds and move to strong safety .... we're gonna need safeties - plural - soon. And I don't mean Hamza Abdullah. I want a successor to the Billy Thompson/Dennis Smith/Steve Atwater line of succession.

[OrangeShadow]

champ was all over the field today and gold was outstanding on the final drive

[BroncoBuff]

Originally Posted by -Slap-

What impressed me was that Kansas City was able to exploit them in the flats in the first half a little bit. We went in and made adjustments and completely took that away in the second half. That's why Huard was 11 for 12 to start the game and then just 6 for 11 the rest of the way.

I noticed that too - imo the first half passes seemed like mighty vanilla routes. I was thinking KC prolly came out super-vanilla for the sake of Huard ... but we had prepped for standard KC offense. At halftime the pass defense was simplified by Coyer, and the door closed. We shouldda blitzed Huard more though ... what's up with that? Lots of crappy tackling on LJ, too ...

Seemed mighty strange the Chefs didn't overload on 88 - throwing two dozen balls his way wouldda been the best call to help Huard cope imo. Odd.

Anybody notice Kircus - playing for Rod late in the game - ran the CLASSIC Rod slant-in? Carbon copy .... even lowered his shoulder and turned upfield like Rod after he caught it.

Did anybody notice the CBS graphic showing that in the last 3 or 4 years, Trent is #2 in like EVERY passing category (to Manning)? Somehow it never seemed like that to me ... that injury is brutal, both his and Priest's - major real life type injuries. Chefs or no Chefs, that is not cool...

[thumpc]

Fergy was flying to the ball out there. I bet he had a good all around game.

[Dr. Broncenstein]

Originally Posted by thumpc

Fergy was flying to the ball out there. I bet he had a good all around game.

Did you watch the game? Watching him attempt an open-field tackle on Larry Johnson made me laugh out loud. He sort-of attmempted to lower a shoulder at which point LJ was five yards downfield. The above mentioned Kennison owning was another example of his general suckballery.

[BroncoBuff]

Originally Posted by thumpc

Fergy was flying to the ball out there. I bet he had a good all around game.

Sorry to disagree, young Hotrod. Look 3 posts above yours:

Originally Posted by Me

Anybody see Nick Ferguson look like a girl letting Quitterson drag him 10 yards up the field?! Quitterson! ... maybe Gold should drop a couple pounds and move to strong safety .... we're gonna need safeties - plural - soon. And I don't mean Hamza Abdullah. I want a successor to the Billy Thompson/Dennis Smith/Steve Atwater line of succession.

Doc Broncenstein too ...

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To his credit, Nick forced the Huard fumble and that was huge play in the game.

[Cito Pelon]

Originally Posted by -Slap-

What impressed me was that Kansas City was able to exploit them in the flats in the first half a little bit. We went in and made adjustments and completely took that away in the second half. That's why Huard was 11 for 12 to start the game and then just 6 for 11 the rest of the way.

There have been games in the past where our LBs get exploited all day long with dumpoffs and screens and that didn't happen today.

This looks to me like a very confident D, none of the snowball-effect I've seen in the past where a couple bad plays in a row compounded into 4-5-6 bad plays in a row. Hell, not a single TD drive given up this year, that's darn good. The D should be proud of themselves, and I bet they are.