Should we be worried about the Broncos?

(Ugh… This is painful to post)

may get the Steve Smith (Panthers) treatment this week.

He has played great. He can actually throw the ball away, unlike some guy named cutler. He makes smart decisions and is poised behind that GREAT offensive line. (Ryan Clady has the longest streak without giving up a full sack of any tackle in the NFL with 19. This happens to also be the amount of games he has played in his career.)

Orton threw 3 picks in the first preseason game, 1 in the second and none since……………

So, that’s pretty good improvement. A lot of his problems stemmed from hurrying things. He wasn’t used to actually having time to make 2nd and 3rd reads because of his history in Chicago, I don’t think I need to elaborate there.

Denver is scary right now. Don’t watch Eddie Royal. Watch Royal, Marshall, Gaffney, Stokley, Scheffler, Graham, Quin, Hillis, Moreno, and Buckhalter. Orton will throw to whoever is open, so look for all of these guys to get some balls.

First, Orton doesn’t get spooked, period. While it may be argued that he throws the ball away rather than throw an int. or take a sack, I tend to think that’s a good thing, even if it does affect his completion percentage. I believe Orton realizes that statistics don’t win or lose games but sacks and int’s. can. McDaniels, himself addressed the question about being on Orton’s back about throwing the ball away and said he doesn’t have to, that Orton is very bright and knows when to do so.

And Orton doesn’t try to jam the ball into a covered receiver. That was more Cutler’s M.O. though I grant that Cutler was often able to get away with it. In Orton’s first ever game as a Denver QB, the first preseason game, he did throw 4 int’s. There could be a lot of good reasons why. In his second preseason game he threw 2. But in the final two preseason games and three regular seasons since, he has thrown zero. I suppose that could be deceiving but I think it shows a man who is learning the system, and fairly quickly, I might add. Either way, it speaks for itself.

Nor do I believe it is in Orton’s nature to throw a lot of int’s. His current regular season run on consecutive passes without an int. is around 130, I think. He also has a stretch of around 250 consecutive passes without an int in Chicago, again, I think, so I’m not sure I understand your comment about returning to his “old ways”.

As to Eddie Royal, you made the comment before he came up lame in practice. I don’t know how serious the injury is. Some have said it looks like a hamstring but we’ll have to see on that. If he’s o.k., he’s is definately a fine receiver, he runs disciplined routes and gets good seperation. I think one of the reasons he’s started out slowly is because he’s seeing a lot more double teams. But the Broncos are not a one receiver team. All the other WR’s, the RB’s, and the TE’s are seeing a lot of balls too.

As to the Bronco’s rushing game, the O-line is very good, one of the best in football. Buckhalter, whom I’s sure you Cowboy fans are very familiar with, looks very good and Moreno looks better every week. That’s probably part of why they’re ranked #4. The Cowboy D may slow them down but it wouldn’t be reasonable to believe they could stuff the run completely. The most logical circumstance where that might happen is if the Broncos fall way behind and are forced to throw, and even then, I can’t see McDaniels abandoning it completely. That would be suicidal.

So anyway, I see a good, hard hitting, maybe even old fashioned football game with a fairly close final score. Of course, I hope the Broncos come out on top if for no other reason than to show the rest of the world that this is not last year’s edition of the Broncos. This is a good team. But either way, I pray for no injuries and wish the Cowboys good luck for the rest of the season.

The saints opponents combined for 4 wins on the season and the broncos opponents have combined for 3 wins on the season. The rest are at three or below. So, if anything, we are the second most “for real” of the undefeated teams.

and his company has come up with a new type of human lung which he plans on implanting in all the players and should improve our air intake by 43% Denver will be at a disadvantage in this area…

i dont think they were sad. they came out with everything they had and with all kinds of emotion.
unfortunately our defense played its best of the season and the emotion did more harm than good.

Pray the right Tony Romo shows up.

The Cowboys beat themselves. If the cowboys play well and don’t make too many mistakes, it has been shown that they do not lose games.

COWBOYS are the test for Denver. This is the first real TEAM that they have played so far. If the cowboys D that Carolina had to face shows up, then Broncos will be facing a Cowboys team with a TOP RATED OFFENSE AND DEFENSE.

Thanks for the correction. :)

It’s always good to know about the other team more than the 3 shallow facts the MSM tells you.

the injury to the RT is HUGE imo. people on here are discussing Ware vs. Clady, but no one has even brought up the fact that Ware can easily be moved to the other side of the line. Either way it will still be easy for him to be double teamed or chipped if the secondary isn’t able to have success in stopping the pass. Some people have noted that two of the Cowboys sacks in the Carolina game came when the game was basically out of reach but A) a touchdown and an onside kick made it very in reach and B) this is the first time they loosened up the offense a bit and the pass rushers really had a free run at Delhomme. The Giants and Bucs had success throwing out of maximum protection, PLUS Demarcus Ware has been banged up this year, something that people don’t really seem to realize. Maybe not this week, but in the coming weeks and then out of the bye week, Ware will get back to his normal ways.

This first one is a betting site. They like Denver. You can find other sites that rank Dallas, I think.

I like mathmatical derivation sites better. Here is one of the best:

And this one works off of a simple win/loss model:

So when you say you just have to play your game, its a subjective statement. I really respect Football Outsiders and they have a great site. If you include preseason stats, then Dallas is ranked higher (DAVE). However, I personally would not include preseason as many teams, Denver included, use it for player evaluation without much concern for the score. Using VOA, Denver ranks higher.

So it may be, as the computers seem to point out, that just playing your game won’t be enough. You might want to consider game planning. For example, Doom is 5’10" and 250#. He’s got arms the length of a man 6’4" tall. This gives him unreal leverage on taller, larger men. He can make first contact with those long arms and move them. That’s why he’s as good as he is. He is also very fast. Flozell Adams is big and talented, but he historically has not matched up well with speed edge rushers. Dumervil’s freakish build might give him even more fits. You might want to consider this before you just figure to let Adams handle the left side and go on about your business.

Ware and Clady have already faced each other in the 2008 preseason. No sacks by Ware through Clady. And Clady has only given up /12 sack in his entire NFL career (19 games). If you send Ware up against Clady, you might not get the outcome you want. Maybe you should take Denver seriously and game plan against them. Maybe bounce Ware over to the other side where the starting RT is injured.

The computers seem to think there may be something to this Denver team. Then again, you guys are favored by 3. Someone once told me that betting odds are done to try and get the same amounts of money bet on both sides so that the bookies make money on the cut. That the odds are not a measure of who is better team. It is more a measure of what fans think.

I’m going with what the computer thinks.

Save that trash talk for the Eagles and Giants.

Considine, Sheppard and Thomas backing him up? Sheppard and Considine barely played, and I’m still trying figure out who “Thomas” is.

…The Cowboys are gonna score 31 on our defense? We have allowed 16 points in 3 games, how are you planning to accomplish this?
With absolute props to my favorite NFC QB, Tony Romo…here is an accurate prediction:

BRONCOS: 24
COWBOYS: 14 (OVER 90% of total points allowed all year…props for Tony)

Tasty bit of crow? I have to believe that the crow is particularly bad this time of year.

It is gonna be a hard fought game, but I’m CERTAIN Denver will prevail.
Good luck to you guys all season (after week 4), make the playoffs…and get Tony his PO win!

I agree with everything, but am confident McDaniels will game plan heavy to stop Barber (if he is effective) and Choice…priority one. I think we will be able to do that, we have been very effective against the run, but this will be our biggest test.
Secondly: WITTEN-yes he is the guy we must key on, especially the screens and short crosses…dude is un-coverable (is that a word?). Perhaps if we drop Doom every so often to the middle, or BDawk comes up to play him…we can put a stop to Wittens magic.

Anyway, Good Luck again, after week four. I wouyld love to see Tont get that playoff monkey off his back.

simply because Denver has a decent team and they are always tough at home.

2008 – 4 wins / 4 losses @ home (50%)

Since 2006 – 13 wins / 11 losses @ home (54%)

…Mick, please don’t get ahead of yourself and don’t buy into the negative hype. Broncos are for real, my friend. I have seen first hand the aggressive TEAM play of our guys, especially on the Defensive side of the ball. We don’t get any credit in the MSM (which is fine with us), but as a football fan…take a closer look Mick. Trust me, you have a LOT to worry about tomorrow.

I’m feeling a field goal less each on Offense. Our Defense will hold you to one or two TD’s.

BRONCOS: 24
COWBOYS: 14